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When President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was taking over Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department and sending in National Guard troops, those of us who live in D.C. immediately understood how frightening things were about to get.

By law—because D.C. lacks statehood—the president can take over MPD for 30 days; we don’t know how long this National Guard deployment will run. This means D.C.’s 700,000 residents will live the next month under a police force that has been openly encouraged by the president to commit acts of brutality against civilians and that is simply much more poorly run. We will also have to deal with an “enhanced presence” of fede

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