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Trump puts Washington police under federal control, National Guard to be deployd
- duxup 1y agoThese self aggrandizing stunts are getting beyond ridiculous. But congress is complicit and SCOTUS has put their hands in their pockets... Meanwhile crime in DC is actually down over recent years.
- lazide 1y agoHe’s probably going to use it to throw a bunch of homeless folks and other ‘undesirables’ into whatever private prisons he can find. Then show ‘how he cleaned up DC’. The graph there in the linked article even shows things flattening out. It’s all transparent bullshit.
- gnabgib 1y agoPreviously (97 points, 4 hours ago, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192
- duxup 1y agoFlagged as is HN tradition.
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- vkou 1y agoTrump using the military against the public was certainly on my Bingo card, as is the deafening silence on the subject.