President Donald Trump took over the Washington, D.C., police force and deployed the National Guard under the pretense of "rescuing the nation’s capital from crime."

But masked officers roaming the streets and intimidating and harassing residents haven’t made the city feel safer. A checkpoint was set up just a few blocks from my home, with “traffic safety” offered as a pretext for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and detain immigrants. Nearby, vulnerable unhoused residents watched in vain as their belongings were bulldozed , per the president’s orders.

Perhaps Trump’s takeover of Washington is intended to distract from his unpopular Medicaid cuts, weak job numbers and the Jeffrey Epstein files. Maybe it’s another attempt to suppress Democrat-leanin

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