2025-08-11 17:31
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2025-08-11 17:31
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the federal government would take control of the police in Washington and that there will be 800 soldiers of the National Guard there. In this way he announced the “liberation” of the American capital.
“This is the Liberation Day in Washington, we will recover our capital,” Trump announced during a press conference.
As he assessed, the situation in the city becomes “complete and total lawlessness.” He announced that he would benefit from the provisions of the Washington local government to take over the federal control over the metropolitan police, and to place 800 soldiers of the Washington National Guard in the capital.
Trump announced the liquidation of “slums” in the city and dealing with “caravans of young people who go crazy at any time of the day or night on the streets.” He claimed that the situation in the capital threatens the functioning of the state, and mentioned a list of officials who have been victims of crime in recent years; The last of them was a 20-year-old former employee of the Department for Government Efficiency (Doge). He also showed statistics on killings in the capitals of various countries, which showed that the number of killings in Washington is proportionally much higher than, among others in Bogota, Mexico, Baghdad, Islamabad and Brasilia.
He also announced the next steps to fix the situation in other US cities. He complained that the police “nothing is allowed to do” to bring order, and in his opinion, the city authorities derived from the Democratic Party did not want to change it.
– There will be more police and you will be very happy because you will be safe. Walking down the street, you will see the police or FBI agents. There will be many agents on the streets – Trump promised. He also announced actions of gangs.
The head of Pentagon Pete HegeSth announced that the mobilized forces of the National Guard will set off on the streets of Washington this week. “They will be strong, they will be tough and support their colleagues from law enforcement agencies,” he said.
In his second presidential term, Trump once activated the national guard – it was to help pacify the riots in Los Angeles. During his first term (2017-2021) the army was used to restore order after the riots on the Capitol. In addition, Trump sent soldiers to the capital during protests after the death of the African American policeman George Floyd, but they did not actively participate in guarding order.
As reported by the Washington Post, at the weekend, the Trump administration sent 120 officers of the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) to work in the capital to help the local police in the fight against crime, including With car burglary scourge.
Although Washington experienced a significant increase in crime in 2023, police statistics suggest that over the past year crime with the use of violence has fallen there by more than 35 percent, and now its level is the lowest in 30 years.
From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)
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