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Last week, President Trump told reporters that he planned to activate National Guard troops in DC to stop the ongoing violence in our national capital.
On Saturday night in the Navy Yard area, D.C. police imposed a "juvenile curfew" after gunshots rang out at a gathering with over a hundred young people.
A few screenshots of the teenagers in question after the police had broken up the crowd:
On Monday morning, The New York Times reported that the president is imminently expected to announce that "several hundred District of Columbia National Guardsmen will be sent to support law enforcement officers in the capital."
The troops, whose possible activation was previously reported by Reuters, would probably not have arrest authorities. Instead, they would support law enforcement officials or free them up to carry out patrol duties, the Defense Department official said.
The Trump administration also plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties as part of Mr. Trump's crackdown, according to people familiar with the matter. Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.'s Washington field office, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe details of an effort that were not meant to be public.
Trump himself seemed to confirm that Monday would be the day National Guardsmen are sent into the capital.
According to FBI data, the majority of crimes in D.C. are perpetrated by young black males. From the last five years of statistics related to violent crime:
Given the racial factor involving crime, it remains to be seen how the Trump administration will crack down without his critics, especially in the media, turning the deployment of the National Guard into a race-based narrative.
There has been no word on how long the president plans to deploy the troops to D.C. Under former President Joe Biden, thousands of National Guardsmen were similarly deployed to D.C. for almost a year, though their primary job was to secure the Capitol and White House from the perceived threat of another January 6th-type event.
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