She added that the playbook has special potency in the capital because the district’s local law enforcement can be directly placed under federal control, a power Trump invoked in his announcement.
Donald Trump's rhetoric about D.C. echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
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“The hostility is similar, particularly in that there is a mobilized, active and aggressive extremist-right hell bent on unraveling rights and any sense of shared purpose, shared problems or shared solutions,” said Maya Wiley, CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
King family, civil rights leaders mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office
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