Taking over the city after the attack on “Big balls”
Johan EdgarUpdated 00.28 | Published 00.03
Elon Musk’s 19-year-old employee was attacked by two 15-year-olds on the street in Washington D.C.
Now Donald Trump is taking over the capital’s police force and calling in the National Guard in pursuit of criminals.
– They will fight until you beat the crap out of them. It’s the only language they understand, says the president.
For at least 30 days, the police in Washington D.C. will be under federal control. In addition, 800 National Guard troops will be sent to the capital.
The government also plans to move 120 FBI agents to patrol the streets of Washington at night.
President Trump said all this during a press conference at the White House where he attacked everything and everyone.
"Bloodthirsty criminals"
- It has degenerated into a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we will get rid of the slums too, says Trump.
- They will not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland.
The president also stated that "bloodthirsty criminals" and "a mob of violent youth" are roaming the streets and making the capital unsafe.
Hours after Trump's speech, Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser stood at a press conference and declared that crime has dropped year by year after the pandemic and is now down to the lowest levels in six years.
Record low violent crime
According to a press release from the district attorney in Washington, DC last winter, violent crime in the capital is the lowest in 30 years.
She says that Trump is very aware of the actual situation.
– In every conversation I have had with him, I have briefed the president on our progress.
Bowser calls Trump's decision "troubling and unprecedented", but says that she has little to object to because of the special legislation that applies in the capital.
Because Washington, DC is not a state, the president has unusually great power over the city's leaders and residents, which, according to The Washington Post, "gives the president an opportunity to use it as a laboratory for a militarized approach to urban crime control".
Threatens Chicago
Trump also threatened to take control of other major cities governed by Democrats, such as Chicago, if they do not get a grip on the crime that is said to be out of control.
But in other cities, it may be more difficult for the president to resort to power in the same way as in Washington DC.
The president began threatening to take over last weekend after one of Elon Musk's former employees in the Department of Efficiency, Doge, was attacked during an attempted carjacking in DC on Sunday night.
Trump later posted on his Truth Social a picture of the a picture of the employee sitting bloodied in the street after the attack.
"Big Balls" attacked by 15-year-olds
"If DC does not tighten up quickly, we have no other option but to take federal control of the city," the president wrote at the time.
The victim was later identified as Edward Coristine, 19, who in the reporting on Doge is said to go by the nickname "Big Balls," writes The Washington Post.
The police later arrested two 15-year-olds, a boy and a girl, who are now being held in juvenile detention and are suspected of "unarmed carjacking."
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