In an expansion of tactics started in June during immigration raids in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump on Monday announced he would activate 800 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to help "reestablish law and order" and "take the capital back."

"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 at the White House briefing room.

"It's liberation day in D.C.," he declared.

Trump, who sent roughly 5,000 Marines and National Guard troops to L.A. in June in a move that was opposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, is invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, that places the D.C. Metropolitan police Department under direct fe

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