In a collective bargaining agreement announced Labor Day, many local activists and residents argue that District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has handed President Donald Trump control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), issuing an order that keeps federal officers embedded in the city even after the president’s 30-day National Guard deployment was set to expire.

Instead of resisting, Bowser signed up to continue cooperation, a move critics say shows she offered no fight to protect D.C.’s autonomy and no defense of the residents she was elected to represent.

Trump used the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to seize authority over the MPD last month, claiming “special conditions of an emergency nature” justified the takeover. His order was about to lapse, but Bowser s

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