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For at least the next 30 days, President Trump is putting Washington,
D.C.'s police department under federal control and sending 800 guard members to the streets of the nation's capital.
He declared a crime emergency.
Civil rights groups protested near the White House.
Jesse Rabinowitz is with the National Homelessness Law Center.
Locking up people you don't like or don't want to see is textbook authoritarianism.
Trump is testing opinion by focusing on groups that he believes to have little public sympathy,
like folks who live outside.
Right now, they are coming for homeless folks, trans folks, and migrants.
But rest assured, soon they will come for everyone who is not a white,
straight, cis, wealthy Christian man.
Violent crime hit a 30-year low in D.C. last year.
Mayor Muriel Bowser called Trump's move unsettling and unprecedented.