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Tuesday August 12. Under the interrogator of the end of the day joggers, five army vehicles take a stand on the road which leads to the Washington Monument. The 170 -meter obelisk completed in 1888 attended a historic scene: the first visible effects of the deployment of the National Guard in the American capital. Decided Monday morning, the maneuver is justified by Donald Trump of these words: “Washington is besieged by thugs, killers, gangs and has the highest homicide rate in the world. Prisoners in their own city, citizens live in fear, hidden at home during the night. We are going to free Washington. ” If the city is not spared by violence, the Federal Department of Justice presented the “lowest violent crimes rate in thirty years at the beginning of January”. A “rigged” result, said Donald Trump, less and less interested in the statistics that contradict him.
The figures of international crime are however formal: the city is not the most dangerous in the world. While a stroll among the crowds crisscrossing the streets in the evening leaves strong doubts over a safe emergency. What does it matter, for the Republican President, who not only sent the army to the streets of Washington, but also taken control of the local police for thirty days. A unique possibility in the Columbia District (DC), which does not benefit from the prerogatives of a State. After being conciliatory, the mayor of the Democratic city, Muriel Bowser, denounced at the end of the week an “unprecedented authoritarian maneuver”. Worse, following the announcement of the general prosecutor, Pam Bondi, to appoint an “emergency police commissioner” to Donald Trump’s orders to direct the municipal forces (a decision deemed “illegal” by the DC prosecutor), the city filed a complaint against the federal administration. Paving the way to a direct conflict between the capital and the president.
