President Donald Trump has threatened to once again federalize Washington, D.C.’s police department after Mayor Muriel Bowser said officers will not assist federal immigration agents with enforcement operations.

The clash comes just days after Trump’s 30-day emergency takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) expired . That order, which started Aug. 11 and ended Sept. 10, put the city’s police under federal control, deployed the National Guard, and compelled local officers to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.

Trump claimed the intervention turned Washington into “one of the safest” cities in the world and warned that if Bowser’s stance continues, “CRIME would come roaring back.”

He vowed to declare a national emergency and federalize the police again if the

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