Anonymous wrote:Some idiot posted this on FB tonight. I've been checking the news and there is zero about any of this. Can someone verify if this is true? It sure sounds made up.

"Didn't have "Getting pepper-sprayed by ICE and The National Guard at Union Station" on today's bingo card, but here we are!
(I'll be fine.)
Hundreds of commuters transferring from Metro to Amtrak or Marc, as my escalator delivers me into a loud chaotic scene. About 40-50 people in various levels of uniforms & body armor are chasing, tackling, handcuffing middle school aged kids still wearing their school uniforms. One child who couldn't have weighed more than 90lbs had 7 officers on top of her being cuffed.
Meanwhile, another officer is casually walking the perimeter spraying his pepper spray into the air, directly at cornered bystanders in corners, at people filming and directly into the crowds at the top of the escalator!
Clueless commuters are being carried up, too late to go anywhere else, only to arrive into a surge of people trying desperately to escape back down the same escalator.
I'm not an expert, but I have been trained in crowd management strategies, dispersion, and de-escalation of mob mentality and that was NOT it!
What i saw was a completely irresponsible, dangerous strategy being employed to escalate actions and incite the crowd to riot, likely to create more detainments, aka victims.
The president posted just yesterday that DC was "crime-free" yet today i witness multiple assaults, battery, false imprisonment, instigating and inciting, reckless endangerment, possibly even attempted murder in the case of forcing a crowd into an already crowded escalator going the opposite direction.
The District is NOT crime free.
It is more crime ridden now than it ever has been and the crime is being committed by those charged to prevent it!
A daily commute shouldn't include trying to dodge pepper spray and holding a milk-soaked rag over my face to calm the burning."

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DC has had the money for more police. They’ve been offering $20K hiring bonuses for several years, but can’t close the gap. Very few people are going to take an MPD job where the council is openly hottie to policing city is filled with over educated social justice warriors spiting and throwing things at you.

And, if you arrest them, the judge lets them go. That is the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe cancel your march plans....

Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely

Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date.

Thank you Madame Mayor! This is what leadership looks like.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone has to keep the pussy hat and rainbow flag industry in business in the off season.

Hey everybody, one of MAGAs learned to type and communicate when they aren’t hiding under their beds afraid of every possible thing on Earth.

You think that he snuck out to use mother’s computer when she wasn’t looking?

Quite naughty, but I’m very proud of him for being a big brave boy. How many guns to you think he had to bring to feel safe?

You’re trying too hard. Your post fairly reeks of forced humor.

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Anonymous wrote:As of August 29, there have been 2 homicides since the National Guard came in. Previously, there were 101 murders since the start of the year.

Can you cite a source for these figures?

Anonymous wrote:As of August 29, there have been 2 homicides since the National Guard came in. Previously, there were 101 murders since the start of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sad that people mock pink hats, rather than bemoan the loss of freedom.

You know who truly lost their freedom? The innocent victims who died at the hands of folks who committed crimes.

Anonymous wrote:Only Democrats would protest against lower crime.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe cancel your march plans....

Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely

Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date.

Anonymous wrote:It's sad that people mock pink hats, rather than bemoan the loss of freedom.

Anonymous wrote:

DC has had the money for more police. They’ve been offering $20K hiring bonuses for several years, but can’t close the gap. Very few people are going to take an MPD job where the council is openly hottie to policing city is filled with over educated social justice warriors spiting and throwing things at you.

And, if you arrest them, the judge lets them go. That is the problem.

DC has had the money for more police. They’ve been offering $20K hiring bonuses for several years, but can’t close the gap. Very few people are going to take an MPD job where the council is openly hottie to policing city is filled with over educated social justice warriors spiting and throwing things at you.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe cancel your march plans....

Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely

Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date.

I think she (a) wants the additional police resources, which the city can't pay for now on its own due to the budget screwup and (b) more important, doesn't want to pick fights she can't win over Home Rule. I think she's way more concerned with avoiding any actions that further erode her own power than she is with preventing murders.

Personally, I'd be curious what would happen if the feds just gave D.C. more officers; I don't think the National Guard being posted in downtown Metro stations is making any difference for crime, and I also don't think random ICE checkpoints in low-crime neighborhoods are, either, both of which are big components of this intervention. There's no question that having more police on the streets is good for preventing crime, but I wish they could do it without the additional performative nonsense.