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Trump federalizing DC police, deploying National Guard in capital crime crackdown

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wing2000 said:
Refer to the court record if you have some doubt as to whether he testified.
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“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” the agent testifies. “The sandwich…exploded all over my uniform. I could smell the onions and the mustard.” As Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz MIGHT have testified....
 
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BPPLEE said:
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“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” the agent testifies. “The sandwich…exploded all over my uniform. I could smell the onions and the mustard.” As Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz MIGHT have testified....
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....note the quotes. The rest is commentary.
wing2000 said:
“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” the agent testifies. “The sandwich…exploded all over my uniform. I could smell the onions and the mustard.” As Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz might have testified, “The horror! The horror!”


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Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?

The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
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BPPLEE said:
Ridiculous, I thought it was satire
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Yeah, that is actually the point. It really does sound like something made up that you'd read in The Onion. But he really did say something that made him look ridiculous.

Did you only just realise this?
 
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Bradskii said:
Yeah, that is actually the point. It really does sound like something made up that you'd read in The Onion. But he really did say something that made him look ridiculous.

Did you only just realise this?
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Like I have said, repeatedly, sandwich guy should have been charged with disorderly conduct or let go with a warning.
The testimony was ridiculous
 
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National Guard deployment in DC having no measurable impact on crime, report says

WASHINGTON — National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have broken up fights, administered opioid overdose medication and helped deliver a baby but have not had a measurable impact on crime reduction, according to a report released Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Statistics show that violent crime was already decreasing when the National Guard was mobilized in August, and the Guard has been unable to demonstrate whether the ongoing decline is due to their deployment or a natural result of continuing trends, according to the report.

Committee staff said they had to make several oversight visits to the D.C. National Guard headquarters over the fall and winter after the Defense Department failed to respond to questions about the National Guard’s presence in the city. Their findings show the D.C. National Guard is on track to spend more than $602 million per year on the deployment — a sum slightly larger than the operating 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Police Department, which employs about 4,900 officers.

The status of the deployment remains in legal limbo. A federal judge ordered an end to troops’ presence in Washington in November but an appeals court overturned the ruling a month later, saying the president “possesses a unique power” to mobilize the Guard in a federal district.
 
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essentialsaltes said:
National Guard deployment in DC having no measurable impact on crime, report says

WASHINGTON — National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have broken up fights, administered opioid overdose medication and helped deliver a baby but have not had a measurable impact on crime reduction, according to a report released Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Statistics show that violent crime was already decreasing when the National Guard was mobilized in August, and the Guard has been unable to demonstrate whether the ongoing decline is due to their deployment or a natural result of continuing trends, according to the report.

Committee staff said they had to make several oversight visits to the D.C. National Guard headquarters over the fall and winter after the Defense Department failed to respond to questions about the National Guard’s presence in the city. Their findings show the D.C. National Guard is on track to spend more than $602 million per year on the deployment — a sum slightly larger than the operating 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Police Department, which employs about 4,900 officers.

The status of the deployment remains in legal limbo. A federal judge ordered an end to troops’ presence in Washington in November but an appeals court overturned the ruling a month later, saying the president “possesses a unique power” to mobilize the Guard in a federal district.
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D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime drops
The president, police chief and D.C. Council members all say they played a role in reducing crime in the city. The reversal is in line with national trends.
There is no question that the crime drop has been dramatic in large cities that have fully cooperated with the Trump administration, such as Memphis and New Orleans.
 
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Valletta said:
D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime drops
The president, police chief and D.C. Council members all say they played a role in reducing crime in the city. The reversal is in line with national trends.
There is no question that the crime drop has been dramatic in large cities that have fully cooperated with the Trump administration, such as Memphis and New Orleans.
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It being the dead of winter didn’t have nothing to do with this stat?
Okay.
 
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