Washington mayor calls Trump's police order ‘unsettling and unprecedented'
'While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we're totally surprised,' Bowser said. 'I can say to D.C. residents that we will continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud.'
The mayor said the city will comply with Trump's order and is expected to continue meetings with federal law enforcement officials later on Monday to plan coordination. But she made clear that while her office would coordinate with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Terry Cole, who Trump appointed as federal commissioner to Washington police, the city's police officers still reported to her.
'Nothing about our organizational chart has changed, and nothing in the executive order would indicate otherwise. So the chief of police reports through the deputy mayor to the mayor of the District of Columbia, and the two people, I think, that were identified in the presser report to Attorney General Bondi,' she said.
A previously-unused provision of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act allows Trump to take over Washington's police department for up to 30 days if he notifies certain heads of congressional committees. The act also established broader Congressional oversight of the city's government.
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