The DC National Guard began appearing in the nation’s capital on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier he is deploying guard troops and placing Washington, DC’s police department “under direct federal control,

Councilmember Trayon White, who was recently reinstated after a five-month suspension surrounding a federal bribery probe, said President Donald Trump isn’t entirely off base in ordering a federal takeover of the D.

President Donald Trump ordered the deployment nearly 500 federal law enforcement officers around Washington, D.C, over the weekend. He justified the move by setting the need to tackle persistent crime in the nation’s capital,