The attorney general for the US capital Washington has sued Donald Trump's administration over what he called a "hostile takeover" of the city's police force, which the Republican president said was necessary to fight violent crime.

Earlier this week, Trump placed the capital's Metropolitan Police Department under federal government control while also sending 800 National Guard troops onto the city's streets.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday then issued an order to install a hand-picked official -- Drug Enforcement Administration chief Terry Cole -- as "emergency" police commissioner.

Federal law governing the capital "does not authorize this brazen usurpation of the District's authority over its own government," Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote in a filing lodged in federal c

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