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- Yahoo
Trump puts DC police department under federal control, deploys National Guard
President Donald Trump is holding a news conference Monday to reveal plans he's said "will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C." "We're here for a very serious purpose. Very serious, very," Trump said. "Something's out of control. But we're going to put it in control very quickly, like we did in the southern border. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor. And worse, this is Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our capital back." He said he was declaring a public safety emergency, putting the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard. Trump announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole will be interim federal commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department. He delivered his message standing beside Bondi, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, FBI Director Kash Patel and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum who will all play a role in the takeover Trump announced. "Let me be crystal clear. Crime in DC is ending and ending today. We are going to use every power we have to fight criminals here," Bondi said. The president promoted the news conference in multiple posts on his social media platform and on Sunday posted that it would "also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital." In a separate post, Trump said the homeless should leave D.C., accompanied by photos of homeless encampments along his route from the White House to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia. "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital," Trump wrote. "The Criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong." The news conference comes after Trump last week ordered an increase in law enforcement as part of an executive order he signed in March to "Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful." Contrary to the president's claim, preliminary year-to-date crime comparisons from Washington's Metropolitan Police Department show that overall crime in D.C. has decreased by 7% since last year, with violent crime down 26% and property crime reduced by 5%. A White House official said the law enforcement effort a "whole of government approach to improve overall public safety" and said that law enforcement will "be focused on high traffic tourist areas and other known hotspots." The official added that federal officers "will be identified, in marked units, and highly visible." Trump said Sunday that he has given D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser an opportunity to reduce crime rates but she has failed to do that. MORE: 19-year-old former DOGE worker assaulted in DC carjacking attempt, say police "The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive. The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer," he claimed. Bowser said Sunday that Washington has spent the last two years driving down violent crime, 'driving it down to a 30 year low, in fact.' 'It is true that we had a terrible spike in crime in 2023, but this is not 2023, this is 2025 and we've done that by working with the community, working with the police, working with our prosecutors, and, in fact, working with the federal government," Bowser told MSNBC. MORE: Murdered Congressional intern's mom says Trump should take over Washington, DC On Saturday, Trump said the nation's capital has become 'one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World.' Last week he threatened to deploy the National Guard to D.C. and, as he has on several occasions since he was inaugurated in January, suggested that there should be a federal takeover. That call came after Edward Coristine, a former Department of Government Efficiency employee, was beaten after he tried to break up a carjacking in D.C. "So whether you call it federalize or what. And that also includes the graffiti that you see, the papers all over the place, the roads that are in bad shape, the medians that are falling down, the median in between roads, it's falling down,' Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday. 'We're going to beautify the city. We're going to make it beautiful. And, what a shame. Rate of crime, the rate of muggings, killings and everything else. We're not going to let it. And that includes bringing in the National Guard, maybe very quickly.' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last week, 'Washington, DC is an amazing city, but it has been plagued by violent crime for far too long. President Trump has directed an increased presence of federal law enforcement to protect innocent citizens. There will be no safe harbor for violent criminals in D.C. President Trump is committed to making our Nation's capital safer for its residents, lawmakers, and visitors from all around the world.' The seven-day law enforcement effort is being led by the U.S. Park Police but includes personnel from the Metro Transit Police Department, Amtrak Police Department, United States Capitol Police, Washington's Metro Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, Federal Protective Service, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, United States Marshals Service, United States Attorney's Office-District of Columbia, Department of Interior, Pre-Trial Services Agency, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), the White House official said. Solve the daily Crossword
CBS News
an hour ago
- CBS News
Watch Live: Trump announces deployment of National Guard to D.C., takeover of local police
Washington — President Trump said Monday that he is deploying members of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and that the federal government has taken control of the D.C. police as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation's capital, despite data showing crime has declined in the city in recent years. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse," Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. "This is liberation day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back." Flanked by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel, Mr. Trump said he was officially enforcing Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department "under direct federal control." He said Bondi was taking control of the department immediately. He also said he was declaring a public safety emergency in the district. "In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in D.C., and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly," Mr. Trump said. Hegseth said the Guard was formally mobilized Monday morning and would be "flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week." In an accompanying executive order, Mr. Trump wrote that the deployment "shall remain in effect until I determine that conditions of law and order have been restored in the District of Columbia." Violent crime in D.C. has been declining for the last year and a half after spiking in 2023, according to local police data. So far this year, robberies have dropped by 28% and overall violent crime is down 26%, as of Aug. 11. Last year, violent crime in the capital city hit its lowest level in more than 30 years, the Justice Department said. The president criticized what he called "phony numbers" on crime in D.C., saying the administration would "look into that." And he said the crime issue "directly impacts the functioning of the federal government and is a threat to America, really." "We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is," Mr. Trump said. "We're not going to lose our cities over this." The president said the effort "will go further," saying the administration is "starting very strongly with D.C." and "we're going to clean it up real quick." "It's becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," the president added. He called it "embarrassing" for him to be "up here talking about how unsafe and dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was," ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. The president cited a number of high-profile crimes, including the alleged assault of a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer last week, who the president said was "savagely beaten by a band of roving thugs after defending a young woman from an attempted carjacking." Shortly after the incident, the White House announced that it had boosted the presence of federal law enforcement in the district, as Mr. Trump threatened a federal takeover of the city. Mr. Trump said a process had begun over the weekend to remove homeless encampments in the district. He noted that the Metropolitan Police Department and federal authorities would be supported by 800 D.C. National Guardsmen "and much more if necessary." "If necessary, we're going to move servicemembers directly to joining the guardsmen," Mr. Trump said. In an executive order declaring a crime emergency in the district, the president determined that "special conditions of an emergency nature exist" that require the use of the MPD for federal purposes, including maintaining law and order, protecting federal buildings, monuments and other federal property and ensuring the "conditions necessary for the orderly functioning of the Federal Government." The executive order directs the D.C. mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police force for federal use "for the maximum period permitted under section 740 of the Home Rule Act." The law allows the president to require the D.C. mayor to provide "such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate" for a period of 48 hours, a deadline that can be extended by notifying Congress about the takeover and how much longer it is likely to continue. The statute says the president can control the police department for up to 30 days, "unless the Senate and the House of Representatives enact into law a joint resolution authorizing such an extension." The moves come after the administration deployed about 450 federal law enforcement officers from a number of agencies across D.C. overnight Sunday. The president pledged in a social media post Sunday that he would "make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before." "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY," Mr. Trump said on Truth Social. "We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong. It's all going to happen very fast, just like the Border." The president previously deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles amid heated protests over immigration raids in June. Mr. Trump also deployed the National Guard in June 2020 to D.C. to quell protests after the death of George Floyd. In March, Mr. Trump signed an executive order establishing a "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force." He has said violent crime must be stopped in the District, claiming that it "has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World." D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back on the characterization on MSNBC on Sunday, noting that violent crime is down. "We are not experiencing a crime spike," Bowser said. The mayor said she has talked with Mr. Trump "repeatedly" about crime and that "the president is very aware of our efforts." Bowser acknowledged Sunday that "the D.C. National Guard is the president's National Guard, so that's always his prerogative." And she noted that "federal law enforcement is always on the street in D.C. and we always work cooperatively with them." In another post later Sunday, the president said Bowser "is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive." "The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer," Mr. Trump wrote. "Just like I took care of the Border, where you had ZERO Illegals coming across last month, from millions the year before, I will take care of our cherished Capital, and we will make it, truly, GREAT AGAIN! Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World."Weijia Jiang contributed to this report.
CBS News
an hour ago
- CBS News
Explosion reported at U.S. Steel Clairton plant, multiple people injured
Multiple people have been injured after a reported explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton plant on Monday. First responders were alerted to the incident just before 11 a.m. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
