WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.

Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation’s capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”

Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.

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    2 days ago

    Implying Republicans aren’t both fascists snd genocide cheerleaders

    Fuck nuance, right? Doing your best with the material conditions at hand? Employing imperfect choices as stop-gap measures to prevent a much more harmful outcome? You might as well join the IDF and start shooting starving kids because its basically the same.

    No, its better to be a deeply unserious person and scream from your shitty little ideological ghetto on the Internet about how everyone else is ethically compromised for not adhering to your black and white clown politics.

    Fuck you. No one here has to explain themselves to you or your ratfuck “comrades”, you tankie cunt.