NBC News - Attorney General Pam Bondi further cemented the Trump administration's takeover of D.C. law enforcement on Thursday by shifting decision-making authority from its police chief and handing it to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Bondi previewed an order by the Justice Department naming DEA head Terry Cole as "emergency police commissioner" of the Metropolitan Police Department in an interview on Fox News, days after Trump directed the federal government to take control of the local police and deployed the National Guard in an effort to mitigate crime in the nation's capital.
The move comes hours after D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith issued an executive order allowing officers making traffic stops to notify ICE agents about undocumented immigrants they encounter, NBC Washington reported. The new policy will allow immigrants who have not been detained or charged with a crime to be reported to ICE for possible arrest and deportation. Trump called the order a "great step" and suggested the initiative could be something that "could happen all over the country."
Meanwhile, a homeless encampment near the Kennedy Center, for which Trump serves as a chairman, was dismantled by city workers who shoved people's belongings into garbage trucks. Data shows homelessness in the city has significantly dropped over the past decade.
The city's mayor, Muriel Bowser, has since pushed back against Bondi’s order, while D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said it was "unlawful" and not based on any statute. Read the full story here.
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