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The Trump administration
elected in 2016
came in riding on a lie about American carnage in American cities.
This was also a period of dramatically declined crime rates and violent crime rates, in particular, across U.S. cities.
So, there is nothing here that is factual in terms of the pretext for the calls here.
What is consistent is Donald Trump’s use of racist rhetoric,
racist ideas, and the use of policing to enact a domestic policy agenda.

“Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover
After announcing the federal takeover of law enforcement in D.C. in the White House briefing room, President Trump painted a grim picture of the capital — including “roving mobs of wild youth” — that contrasts with crime figures showing D.C. reached a 30-year low in violent crime last January. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of African American studies and public affairs at Princeton University, says the move is an extension of Trump’s “use of racist rhetoric, racist ideas, and th…