Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has requested that President Trump “withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence” from the nation’s capital after the president mobilized the forces to deal with protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
In a letter to Trump Friday morning, Bowser announced that she had “ended the state of emergency in the District of Columbia related to demonstrations.”
Bowser noted that protests have been “peaceful” and that the Metropolitan Police Department did not make “a single arrest” Thursday night, the second straight evening without an arrest related to the protests.
The mayor also drew attention to the “unidentified federal personnel” who have been in the District all week, saying that they “pose both safety and national security risks.”
“The deployment of federal law enforcement personnel and equipment are inflaming demonstrators and adding to the grievances of those who, by and large, are peacefully protesting for change and reforms to the racist and broken systems that are killing Black Americans,” Bowser said.
I request that @realDonaldTrump withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence from our city. pic.twitter.com/AvaJfQ0mxP
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) June 5, 2020
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