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New York Post
4 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Protesters take over DC streets, police checkpoint following Trump's federal takeover
Enraged protesters squared off against DC cops and tried to warn drivers to avoid a police checkpoint as President Trump's crime crackdown in the nation's capital continues. 'Why are you here? You are trying to arrest innocent people? What's your purpose? What's your goal? What's the motive?' one of the protesters lining the 14th Street Northwest corridor yelled at officers who had set up a traffic safety checkpoint. 3 The federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, DC, entered its third day Wednesday, culminating in some arrests and protests. AFP via Getty Images Advertisement 'Why won't you show your face? Do you look yourself in the mirror and think 'I did a good job today?'' the activist brayed, as others shouted 'get off our streets!' waving signs that said 'ICE' and urging drivers to turn left to steer clear of the checkpoint. But it turns out the roadblock had nothing to do with the stepped-up enforcement effort and was part of a weekly safety compliance checkpoint that's been going on since 2023, the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox Digital. 3 Trump's crackdown also includes the disruption of entrenched homeless camps which litter many of the city's main thoroughfares. Getty Images Advertisement 'During the checkpoint, 344 vehicles passed through, 28 were stopped, 38 notice of infractions were issued, and MPD made one arrest for No Permit and Counterfeit Tags,' a spokesperson told the outlet. A handful of Homeland Security agents were also spotted at the checkpoint, the Washington Post reported, which wound down around 11 p.m. Wednesday. Homeless camps around the Capital were also cleaned up. Elsewhere in the capital on Wednesday, an illegal immigrant from Peru was detained by federal officers and threatened to hurt himself with a butcher knife after he was pulled over while driving his food truck. Advertisement 3 President Trump evoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, under which the president is authorized to take over local law enforcement agencies on an emergency basis for 30 days. AP 'Illegal Peruvian alien Jimmy Anderson Ayala Mayuri presented a large butcher knife to federal officers and motioned that he'd harm himself with it when we stopped his food truck on National Park Service property in DC today,' Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrote on X. The agency said Mayuri briefly barricaded himself inside the truck before he was taken into custody. Advertisement Trump announced Monday that the federal government was assuming control of police in DC in an effort to crack down on violent crime in the district. The National Guard was also deployed, as Trump told reporters the murder rate in the city has eclipsed those in Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico City. The takeover was executed using section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, under which the commander-in-chief can assume control of local police on an emergency basis for a period of 30 days.
Fox News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
SCOOP: Trump's new DC crime crackdown yields more than 100 arrests
FIRST ON FOX: Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., have arrested more than 100 people since Aug. 7, Fox Digital has learned, as President Donald Trump cracks down on crime in the city. Law enforcement officials have arrested a total of 103 individuals as of Wednesday morning since Aug. 7, which includes 43 who were arrested Tuesday, a White House official told Fox Digital Wednesday morning. "President Trump's bold leadership is quickly making our nation's capital safer," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox Digital. "In less than one week, over 100 violent criminals have already been arrested and taken off of the streets in Washington, D.C. President Trump is delivering on his campaign promise to clean up this city and restore American Greatness to our cherished capital." Trump announced Monday that he was federalizing the local police department under section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital's police force for 30 days. Hundreds of National Guard members have since converged on the nation's capital, as well as federal law enforcement departments such as the FBI, DEA, U.S. Capitol Police and ATF assisting with Trump's law and order crackdown and sweeps of the city. The first phase of the crime crackdown Monday resulted in 23 arrests, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed on X Tuesday. "On the first big push of FBI supporting @POTUS @realDonaldTrump initiative to make DC safe again, FBI reported 10 arrests with partners," the director wrote on X. "These are just a few examples — we are just getting started," Patel continued. "Federal partners joined local police and arrested 23 in total." "When you let good cops be cops they can clean up our streets and do it fast," he said. "More to come. Your nation's Capital WILL be safe again." The nation's capital in the following years has been rocked by shootings that have left innocent children shot and dead, a trend of juveniles committing carjackings that have turned deadly in some cases, shoplifting crimes and attacks on government employees, summer interns and others, including the fatal shooting of 21-year-old congressional intern, Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, in June. Trump had threatened to federalize the D.C. police department in recent weeks, citing a spate of high-profile crimes that have left locals and visitors of the city dead or seriously injured, such as Tarpinian-Jachym's killing, the fatal shooting of a pair of Israeli embassy staffers in May, and a brutal attack on a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer earlier in August. "Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people," Trump said Monday. "And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to take it." Democratic lawmakers and local leaders have slammed Trump over the move, arguing crime has fallen in recent years following the wildly violent crime trends of 2020 that rocked cities nationwide. Trump described the federalization of the police as "Liberation Day in D.C.," declaring, "We're going to take our capital back." "We're taking it back under the authority vested in me as the president of the United States, I'm officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is. And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. … In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in Washington, D.C. And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly," he said Monday.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Any eventual Commanders stadium deal will need approval from D.C. Council
Any deal that is struck between the Commanders and the District of Columbia for a new stadium comes with two important caveats. First, as mentioned earlier, owner Josh Harris's NFL business partners must approve of the arrangement. Second, the D.C. Council must sign off on it, too. The second component could be a challenge. As the Washington Post explains it, the potential deal is being driven by mayor Muriel Bowser. Council chair Phil Mendelson said this week that he has "not been consulted or kept informed' about any negotiations with the team. Added Mendelson, 'I find it disturbing that the mayor believes a unilateral approach is the best course, especially when ultimately the council has to give approval." Complicating matters is the loss of $1 billion in Congressional funding for the D.C. budget. That has created a $410 million deficit. The potential deal, as initially reported by NBC Washington, would have the team and/or the league paying up to $2.5 billion for the $3 billion stadium. That leaves $500 million for D.C. to muster. Here's the reality. An agreement between the team and Bowser would be the beginning. Before shovels get crammed into the dirt, both the league and the D.C. Council would have to give their blessing.
NBC Sports
17-04-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
Any eventual Commanders stadium deal will need approval from D.C. Council
Any deal that is struck between the Commanders and the District of Columbia for a new stadium comes with two important caveats. First, as mentioned earlier, owner Josh Harris's NFL business partners must approve of the arrangement. Second, the D.C. Council must sign off on it, too. The second component could be a challenge. As the Washington Post explains it, the potential deal is being driven by mayor Muriel Bowser. Council chair Phil Mendelson said this week that he has 'not been consulted or kept informed' about any negotiations with the team. Added Mendelson, 'I find it disturbing that the mayor believes a unilateral approach is the best course, especially when ultimately the council has to give approval.' Complicating matters is the loss of $1 billion in Congressional funding for the D.C. budget. That has created a $410 million deficit. The potential deal, as initially reported by NBC Washington, would have the team and/or the league paying up to $2.5 billion for the $3 billion stadium. That leaves $500 million for D.C. to muster. Here's the reality. An agreement between the team and Bowser would be the beginning. Before shovels get crammed into the dirt, both the league and the D.C. Council would have to give their blessing.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Appeals judge: ‘Nazis got better treatment' under Alien Enemies Act
A federal appeals judge tore into the Trump administration Monday as the court considered lifting a block on the administration's swift deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. 'There were planeloads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people. Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here,' U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett said. It remained unclear how the three-judge District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals panel will ultimately rule following Monday's oral argument. But Millett, an appointee of former President Obama, repeatedly questioned how the deported migrants could've exercised due process before they were sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison. 'Y'all could have put me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane, thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and giving me no chance to protest it and say somehow it's a violation of presidential war powers,' the judge said. 'For me to say, 'Excuse me, no, I'm not, I'd like a hearing.'' President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act earlier this month, and within hours deported more than 200 migrants to El Salvador who the administrations claims are Venezuelan gang members. The appeals court is considering the Justice Department's request to lift U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's order that temporarily blocks the administration from invoking the centuries-old wartime law. 'The District Court's order represents an unprecedented and enormous intrusion upon the powers of the executive branch,' Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign told the panel. Boasberg's ruling has set off a firestorm of public criticism, including an impeachment threat from Trump. U.S. Circuit Judge Justin Walker, who voiced skepticism of the order at Monday's argument, did not directly reference that barrage of attacks. But the Trump appointee made a point to clarify that any disagreement of his was 'with respect for the dedicated work of the district court.' 'I want to preface that by saying we've had a week to look at this issue, and it's been hard, and the district court only had a day,' Walker emphasized. Despite the stronger sentiments voiced by Millett and Walker, the overall panel's leaning is unclear. The third judge who heard the case, U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson, an appointee of former President George H. W. Bush, remained relatively quiet. As the court heard arguments Monday afternoon, the family of one of the deported migrants filed a new lawsuit in Maryland claiming he has been illegally removed and is not a Venezuelan gang member. Lee Gelernt, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union leading the existing lawsuit that was filed on behalf of five migrants, warned the panel that if it lifts the lower judge's ruling even briefly, 'our people are on a plane. They're just on a plane.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
