President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. — alongside similar actions in and incendiary comments about other Black-led cities across the country — are racist, suggested Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott.

“We have to be reminded again: every city that he called out had a Black mayor. We’re talking about Black-led cities. They’re also Democrat-led cities,” Scott, who was himself a subject of right-wing politicians’ “DEI hire” attacks last year, said during a Thursday press call. “The amount of Black people there — we cannot overstate the racial undertones here.”

Scott’s criticism of the president’s siege of law enforcement in the nation’s capital as a “disgrace and a distraction” followed Trump’s takeover of Washington earlier this week. That move marked the late

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