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Trump’s Washington police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime
President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
Even as district officials questioned the claims underlying his emergency declaration, the president promised a “historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” His...