Trump’s occupation of the capital is a rehearsal of tyranny Donald Trump

Washington, DC, Aveni Evans is the last symbol of US President Donald Trump to the city police.

On August 15, the Police officers of the Obour met and forced Evans, 28 -year -old at the ground at Navy Yard Subway, allegedly committing fare. Evans and other volunteers of Harrite’s dreams were at the station at “Cop Watch” to ensure that the federal acquisition would not lead to the harassment of black youth. However, three black youths have occurred anyway, which prompted Evans to intervene, which led to her arrest.

After the public protests in the capital and on social media, they were released to crowds of encouragement outside the stadium, and the charges against them were dropped the next day.

As with many other issues related to Trump and his attempts to tyranny, its use of the National Guard and the enforcement of American immigration and customs (ICE) to strangle societal ecosystems, especially residents of Washington, black, brown and strange. This potential opposition squash effort is more than just distracting Epsin files or America’s economic problems.

At the local level, it is a partial end to the province of Colombia half a century of judgment on the house, making the city independent of direct federal control. On the national level, it is an open question about whether the capital can remain a site for protest, a place where the marches and other gatherings can affect change or eventually occur in the current authoritarian climate.

Trump’s executive order announced to have the Capital Police Force on August 11 should not be a surprise, especially given his attempts to restore the authority of the federal government in California in June. “The crime is out of control in the province of Colombia,” says that “the increase in violent crime in the heart of our republic … poses unbearable risks to the vital federal functions that occur in the province of Colombia.”

But the truth is that Trump’s executive will make a crisis of extreme right -wing fantasies. Six days before Trump’s announcement, two teenagers lifted Edward Corestine, a former employee of 19 years of age at the Ministry of Government, in the Logan district in the capital. “We will do something about it. This includes bringing the National Guard,” Trump said in the aftermath of the accident.

However, the two alleged two police reservations from Hyattsville, Maryland, were in the province of Prince George, not the capital.

Trump’s moves also fly in the face of another fact: the crime is nothing more in the capital than anywhere else in the United States. At the beginning of the year, a joint report issued by the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in the capital and the Metropolitan Police Administration (MPD) showed that the violent crime rate in the city had decreased by 35 percent in 2024, to reach its lowest rate since the mid -1990s. “The armed theft decreased by 53 %,” according to the report.

Washington, the capital, is a great stage for the Beta test how much the rest of the United States is ready to go to fulfill Trump’s dream of authoritarian rule. The capital is still a majority city in Washington, where the population of Washington is a multiplicity of (43 percent) of the population, despite 30 years of middle-class improvement (most of them whites)-Washington is 39 percent of the residents of the capital.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Trump tries to such heavy tactics in a soft occupation of the capital, especially in a city that was called the famous “chocolate city”. In the capital where more than 90 percent of voters chose former Vice President Kamala Harris to Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Trump also sends unlimited and racist message that the black people, especially black youth, are criminals.

The imposition of an increasing presence of the police and hundreds of National Guard soldiers in a multi -ethnic city is only a strong man’s attempt to appear strong for his anti -black supporters.

The capital is also known as a place that is important for the strange Americans. One in every seven adults in the country’s capital is known as LGBTQIA+, approximately 80,000 Washington in everything. The northwest of the capital, especially societies such as Dubont Serkel, Logan Serkel, Adams Morgan, and parts of Shu and Colombia Heights, became a relatively safe area in the 1960s and 1970s to flourish the culture and companies of the stranger. The opening national march of gay and gay rights in the capital began in 1979.

No person should be shocked by the Trump -fighting administration will also target DEDC spaces and migrants. The presence of the Federal Police in the capital was especially noticeable along the fourteenth street corridors and U Street, including the installation of random checkpoints during the past two weeks. Inevitably-between the National Guard and Federal Law enforcement and anti-immigrant agencies such as enforcement of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), in cooperation with MPD-they created dozens of arrests, the movement of sophisticated nightlife and the movement of work in these societies.

Trump, in his existing way, is also trying to erase the history of the capital as one of the protest and resistance. As the United States evolved into a superpower, and DC turned into the city of the great powers of the international community during and after the Second World War, the city has also become a place to protest, especially for ethnic justice and civil rights. Examples include a march in Washington on August 28, 1963, in addition to a series of anti -war protests against Vietnam between 1965 and 1971. Marches and protests against equal rights, the Say -Lays Law, Chicano Rights, and the Rights of the Population, and the Rights of Migrants and Refugees along with civil rights marches and protests over the 1960s and 1970s the past. Huge protests such as women’s march for 2017, the protests George Floyd in 2020 and the free Palestinian protests last year made the mature capital to overcome the government.

But what Trump is doing in the capital in 2025 is not completely unprecedented – not for him, not for the federal government. In 2018, during the first period of Trump as president, the Service of US National Parks (NPS) sought to reduce the pavement area available around the White House for protests “by 80 percent”, and accused the demonstrators on the fees “allowing NPS to recover some of the costs They were violently arrested George Floyd, the demonstrators in the Lavayette Square, through the street from the White House-all so that Trump could take pictures of the steps of the Church of St. John, describing himself “the head of law and arrangement” along the way.

Trump was followed in the footsteps of another “law and order”, Richard Nixon. In May 1971, Nixon launched the National Guard and the local police against thousands of anti -war demonstrators in the capital, in what became known as the May Day protests, which led to the arrest of more than 12,000 over a period of three days.

In 1932, President Herbert Hoover allowed the use of military force against a group of ancient warriors who are unemployed in the First World War known as the Remetering Army. At the height of the Great Depression and the search for the funds of the rewards owed by Congress, the army responded with gas bombs, bayonets, animals and tanks, and destroying them from its cranes along the National Commercial Center and the Anakostia River. Two of the veterans died, while the army was wounded by thousands. The tear gas cloud over the city also led to the death of a baby.

Trump and his small army are trying to present an example from the nation’s capital, to destroy the capital in the last century, vitality and resistance. The paradox, of course, is that one of Trump’s first works in his second term was pardoning more than 1500 rebellions who were part of January 6, 2021, an attack on the American Capitol, a fatal and stored event.

Now, Trump wants to prove Washington to accept tyranny.

The legacy of the capital as a seat of the National Authority, as an international city, and the center of the so -called naval world, is in danger. But its most vulnerable and marginalized inhabitants are still resisting, despite Trump’s dangers as a tyrant.

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