District Mayor Muriel Bowser, an elected Democrat, confirmed Monday afternoon that she would comply with the federal takeover. “I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster, let me put it that way,” Bowser said at her own press conference, at which she called Trump’s move “unsettling and unprecedented.” “The main point is this: Everybody should follow the law, the police and the community. And that’s the case now, it was the case last week and it was the case the week before,” she said.

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