D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the District is facing “an unsettling and unprecedented” challenge to its autonomy after the Trump administration moved to assert more control over local policing.

In a statement Friday, Bowser said the surge of federal law enforcement in the nation’s capital has created “waves of anxiety” and represents one of the most serious tests of Home Rule since it became law in the 1970s.

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