Aug 12 - 23 arrested on first night of D.C. police takeover - page 3

I agree but as someone who came from that environment and may have dabbled in and out of that lifestyle I can say that there is always another way to better yourself. One doesn’t have to accept what is seemingly forced upon one’s self. Yes the game is rigged and they are playing with loaded dice but you have to get creative to circumvent their bullsh1t.

White House: 23 arrested on first night of D.C. police takeover, homeless could face fines or jail



WASHINGTON — Nearly two dozen people were arrested in Washington on Monday as 850 officers and agents were “surged” across the nation’s capital on the first night since President Donald Trump announced a plan to take control of the city’s police department and deploy national guard troops, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.


“Last night, approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city,” Leavitt told reporters at Tuesday’s press briefing. “They made a total of 23 arrests, including multiple other contacts.”

Leavitt said the charges stemming from the arrests range from homicide to stalking to drug crimes to reckless driving and driving under the influence. Six illegal hand guns were seized in total on Monday evening, she added, pledging it was “only the beginning” of Trump’s crack down.

“Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest every violent criminal in the District who breaks the law, undermines public safety and endangers law-abiding Americans,” Leavitt said.

Leavitt’s update comes just over 24 hours after Trump took to the White House briefing room himself to announce the significant changes as a result of what he described as unsafe and run-down conditions in the nation’s capital. That is despite statistics from local police showing that violent crime in Washington is down 26% from the same time a year ago and recently hit its lowest level in more than 30 years, according to the Justice Department.

Along with the crack down on crime, Trump also pledged to clean up the city and address homelessness. Leavitt on Tuesday announced Trump’s plan on the latter will include bringing people living in homeless encampments in the city to shelters or places to receive treatment for addiction or mental health services. Those who refuse, she said, will be subject to fines or jail time.

Leavitt said an existing law gives officials the authority to take such action, citing a local rule in Washington on crowding, obstructing or incommoding. She stressed more broadly that the administration was looking to use laws already on the books in the nation’s capital to enforce its crackdown.

“These are pre-existing laws that are already on the books,they have not been enforced, which is part of the reason for this nationalizing, or the federalizing of the National Guard to bring in this assistance for law enforcement,” she said. “While we are targeting criminals and trying to remove criminals off of the streets, we also want to make D.C. safe and beautiful.”

The move to put the city’s police force under federal control, meanwhile, will last for at least 30 days and could be extended, Leavitt suggested.

The law Trump invoked to make the change – the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which gave residents of the nation’s capital a degree of self-governance, including the ability to elect a mayor – allows a president to direct the mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes for 48 hours. The commander in chief can extend the timeframe by up to 30 days by notifying Congress but cannot go beyond that period without the House and Senate passing a joint resolution.

“As for the timing, we will reevaluate and reassess and make further decisions after this 30-day period is up,” Leavitt said. “But within these 30 days, our entire focus is making sure that this is the most efficient operation possible, and that we are removing as many criminals from the streets and we are cleaning up D.C. as best as we can.”

Amid questions over the current chain of command within the police department, Leavitt said the order Trump signed to make the change puts the president first, followed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Drug Enforcement Administration chief Terry Cole, who will temporarily be in charge.

Asked about the president’s interest in working with Congress to repeal the Home Rule Act altogether as he has talked about a broader federalization of the city, Leavitt said Trump was looking forward to having conversations with lawmakers about other changes they can make to address crime when they return from August break. She mentioned changing bail policies of states in particular.

“But within these 30 days, our entire focus is making sure that this is the most efficient operation possible, and that we are removing as many criminals from the streets and we are cleaning up D.C. as best as we can.”

"23 arrests made by 850 officers and agents"

That DOGE math.

Ice aint forgot about you yet, cant wait until they get all you tethers the fu#k outta here, nomore fu#kin Puerto rican parades Tito

Football numbers are excessive but the truth of the matter is that prison doesn’t really rehabilitate anyone. It’s just a timeout for adults (and some teens).

The other thing is there’s no one is sitting in jail if you’re innocent. You might be captured on some bullsh1t but you got away with some bigger sh1t in the past. Karma doesn’t work like that, locking up the totally innocent. There’s forces at work that are greater than what you see and read in the media.

Do you see the repetitive cycle here?

You say all of this after the fact... as a older, wiser person, who escaped those conditions

That DOESN'T change the conditions
The youth are still stuck in these conditions..

Which makes them a target.. (war on drugs, war on crime etc) More black bodies to feed the the prison system.

*Rinse and repeat*
Those that make it out, repeat what you just said
All the while the conditions remaine the SAME.

The only thing that is changing here is the people not the system

Are you starting to see the matrix that folks are trapped in?

I disagree. We have enough instances of it happening in the United States as it is.

See. Hear. Whisper. Speak in a low voice to avoid being heard. Anonymously denounce one’s neighbor. The omertà or code of silence that the gangs had imposed on Salvadorans—see, hear and shut up—has been transformed into a new common practice in El Salvador, one that sends alleged gang collaborators to jail based on anonymous calls to the police. Many of those who have ended up in jail accused of “criminal association” were denounced by their own neighbors. Many of them are also innocent of that charge. President Nayib Bukele’s government has created a social base of citizens who have become informers, snitches, avengers, a common feature of authoritarian regimes that extend their tentacles into the depths of society through multiple sets of eyes and ears ready to watch others and then turn them in to the authorities. Each person carries a gendarme within.

This policy of enmity has shattered community ties and trust among citizens. The worst effect is the imprisonment of innocent people without connections to the gangs, as many people have conveniently used the state of emergency to settle old scores and exact personal revenge, as EL PAÍS has documented. In these cases, the parties are not criminals but ordinary people—mostly poor youths—who had the misfortune of being disliked by others. A phone call was all it took. Experts point out that the ways in which this new regime sows hostility is reminiscent of the civil war era (1979-1992), when the repressive government encouraged citizens to turn in insurgents and their supporters.

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El Pais

Manuel was arrested at the end of March, a few days after the start of the state of emergency. According to Manuel, he was arrested out of revenge. He explains that a couple of years earlier, officers had beaten up his 10-year-old son because he did not have ID on him when he returned from buying tortillas during the pandemic. Manuel reported the officers, and a judge ended up sentencing them. In retaliation, 10 policemen showed up at his house with a warrant for his arrest. That same day, he was beaten “until [the officers] got bored.” They broke two ribs. But for Manuel — who before being arrest worked in an office filling out excels and making photocopies — what hurt the most was that he was presented to the press as a gang member charged with extortion, homicide and belonging to a terrorist organization.

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I disagree. We have enough instances of it happening in the United States as it is.

See. Hear. Whisper. Speak in a low voice to avoid being heard. Anonymously denounce one’s neighbor. The omertà or code of silence that the gangs had imposed on Salvadorans—see, hear and shut up—has been transformed into a new common practice in El Salvador, one that sends alleged gang collaborators to jail based on anonymous calls to the police. Many of those who have ended up in jail accused of “criminal association” were denounced by their own neighbors. Many of them are also innocent of that charge. President Nayib Bukele’s government has created a social base of citizens who have become informers, snitches, avengers, a common feature of authoritarian regimes that extend their tentacles into the depths of society through multiple sets of eyes and ears ready to watch others and then turn them in to the authorities. Each person carries a gendarme within.

This policy of enmity has shattered community ties and trust among citizens. The worst effect is the imprisonment of innocent people without connections to the gangs, as many people have conveniently used the state of emergency to settle old scores and exact personal revenge, as EL PAÍS has documented. In these cases, the parties are not criminals but ordinary people—mostly poor youths—who had the misfortune of being disliked by others. A phone call was all it took. Experts point out that the ways in which this new regime sows hostility is reminiscent of the civil war era (1979-1992), when the repressive government encouraged citizens to turn in insurgents and their supporters.

[see photo]

 
El Pais

Manuel was arrested at the end of March, a few days after the start of the state of emergency. According to Manuel, he was arrested out of revenge. He explains that a couple of years earlier, officers had beaten up his 10-year-old son because he did not have ID on him when he returned from buying tortillas during the pandemic. Manuel reported the officers, and a judge ended up sentencing them. In retaliation, 10 policemen showed up at his house with a warrant for his arrest. That same day, he was beaten “until [the officers] got bored.” They broke two ribs. But for Manuel — who before being arrest worked in an office filling out excels and making photocopies — what hurt the most was that he was presented to the press as a gang member charged with extortion, homicide and belonging to a terrorist organization.

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Good get the criminal a$s off the streets. Bum a$s n1ggas do nothing but smoke weed all fu#king day. Now sit yo a$s in weed jail bi#ch

That would never NEVER EVER happen! Get real

You can disagree but I know different. Things don’t always start in present incarnations.

You live in trailer with asl#t for mother. Stop cosplaying.

safest in 30 years...but not last year

30 years ago was 1995

im glad the cycle may come to and end...


but the cycle of white supremacy is got dam clever...

no excuses tho at the end of the day...


get them wild n1ggas outta here

And if that's how things truly work, I have enough sense to not accept it.

Otherwise, you're saying people end up in prison for thing they did that weren't even crimes and some universal force compels it. And people should ACCEPT IT as NATURAL.

Meanwhile, the president has 34 felonies and the guy hasn't sniffed a jail cell.




I'm not gonna condemn innocent people to prison just because "karma" didn't like what they did when they were 12.

Is this sustainable tho?

this is gonna backfire.

a. black people of this generation are not scared of this blitz
b. white people in dc (aside from the new magas) dont like this racist show of force
c. putting national guard and border patrol officers on dc streets is embarrassing to soldiers and cops
c. this may lay the grounds for dc to finally be granted statehood

Calm down.. we all knew he was going to fu#k with blacks one way or the other.. as you can see they keep shaking the tree to see what falls.. Obama committing treason, black jobs, now a war on "crime"

Next how you stupid bi#ch?

Dc has always had the most police per capita of anywhere else
In the country, the national guard has been here many times since I was a little kid

They gettin rid of you stupid fu#ks en masse and its only gonna continue, the one they cant ever do is deport us, can you say the same?

Lmao no it’s not! Damn you democrats are so soft it’s unbelievable

Lmfaooo your blind trust in Tariq has failed you. He told you black people wouldn’t be harmed by the Trump admin and here his the admin tearing up and harassing community members.

Personally I think it’s great for him to clean up the city. Been living here for over 10 years and grew up in Maryland, and these YNs do be out of control. Lock em up.