President Donald Trump is placing Washington, D.C., law enforcement under federal control.

“This is ‘Liberation Day’ in D.C.,” Trump told the press in a Monday briefing, “and we’re going to take our capital back.”

“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people,” he continued, “and we’re not going to let it happen anymore.”

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The Home Rule Act of 1973 allows the president to assume temporary control over the city’s police department in an emergency. The president said he signed an executive order Monday morning declaring an emergency in the nation’s capital.

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