CINCINNATI — The Ohio National Guard will be deployed to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. This comes after President Donald Trump took control over the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, claiming "crime is out of control” in the city.

Ohio is one of six states across the U.S. that have agreed to send National Guard troops to the nation’s capital.

“We are there to support the D.C. National Guard, and so that’s what, that’s what the assignment is,” Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday while speaking on 700 WLW.

The plan is for the troops to be in D.C. for 30 days, but that could be extended. DeWine said that his Adjutant General of the Ohio National Guard received the call for assistance on Friday night. DeWine then made the decision to send them over.

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