Overview

• The president placed D.C.’s Metropolitan Police under federal control and activated roughly 800 National Guard personnel alongside hundreds of federal agents.
• The White House defends the operation by pointing to a supposed crime surge and reports more than 600 arrests, including detentions of undocumented residents.
• Residents blanket neighborhoods such as NoMa, Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle and Union Market with stickers, graffiti and balcony banners featuring messages like “Free DC.”
• A viral poster riffs on the “flower thrower” image to depict Sean Charles Dunn, who faces a felony after confronting federal agents with a thrown sandwich.
• City leaders have sued the administration over Home Rule as a Washington Post–George Mason poll finds roughly eight in ten residents opposed to the federal takeover.