MSNBC legal analyst Anthony Coley said Wednesday on “Morning Joe” that Democrats on Washington, D.C.’s council created a “political opening” for President Donald Trump’s policing takeover.

Coley said, “There is a gap between what the data shows and how many Washingtonians feel. And I live in Washington. This is personal for me. Many people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly committed by juveniles in the city of Washington. People are frustrated, Willie, that when they go to CVS to buy deodorant, that they have to get it from behind locked plexiglas. Right? These are not just random anecdotes. What we see in the Washington Post polling, among others, is that roughly half of D.C. residents, mostly half of D.C, view this as a serious problem or an extremely serious problem.

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