'D.C. Is Ours': Residents Vow To Fight Trump’s Takeover Of City's Police
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“Making noise is resistance!” a Free DC activist said to cheers from protesters in front of D.C. police headquarters. “Making noise is freedom!”
WASHINGTON – Dozens of people gathered outside of D.C police headquarters on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s police, vowing to fight his administration’s efforts to intimidate residents by flooding the city with federal law enforcement agents.
“Every day, at eight o’clock, until these terrorists get out of our streets, we want people to go outside your door… just stop and for five minutes, just make noise,” Nee Nee Taylor of Free DC, a campaign focused on protecting D.C.’s right to self-govern, told the crowd, to cheers.
“Making noise is resistance!” Taylor said. “Making noise is freedom!”
It’s day four of Trump’s deployment of federal agents throughout the city to supposedly root out D.C. crime, which is at a 30-year low. Beyond the various types of federal officers patrolling the streets, which so far have led to checkpoints on roads and homeless encampments being cleared out, Trump has seized control of the local police, too.
The president can do this for 30 days under the Home Rule Act. However, D.C.’s attorney general on Friday filed an emergency intervention in court, claiming Trump is unlawfully abusing his authority under this law.
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