Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser pauses as she speaks at a press conference on August 11, the day President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of the National Guard to the District. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Washington —

Jawanna Hardy, founder of a group that works with victims of gun violence as young as three, said many in her community were hopeful when President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

That changed during the past month. Hardy’s views soured after one of the mentors in her program, Vincent Tyree, was jailed for four days after an exchange with federal officers surveilling an apartment complex in Ward 8, a community that includes high-crime areas li

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