Trump puts Washington police under federal control, National Guard to be deployd

These self aggrandizing stunts are getting beyond ridiculous. But congress is complicit and SCOTUS has put their hands in their pockets...

Meanwhile crime in DC is actually down over recent years.

He’s probably going to use it to throw a bunch of homeless folks and other ‘undesirables’ into whatever private prisons he can find. Then show ‘how he cleaned up DC’.

The graph there in the linked article even shows things flattening out. It’s all transparent bullshit.

Previously (97 points, 4 hours ago, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192

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Trump using the military against the public was certainly on my Bingo card, as is the deafening silence on the subject.