{"id":1753,"date":"2025-08-17T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:18:52","slug":"bondi-68-arrested-overnight-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/bondi-68-arrested-overnight-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi: 68 arrested overnight in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Sunday that authorities arrested 68 people overnight in Washington, D.C., amid a federal crackdown on crime in which President Trump has sent the National Guard to the nation\u2019s capital and federalized the police force.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver 300 arrests in D.C. \u2014 and counting: Just last night, our federal and DC law enforcement partners made 68 arrests and seized 15 illegal firearms,\u201d Bondi said in a post on the social platform<\/a> X. \u201dHomicide suspects, drug traffickers, and more are being charged. I\u2019ll continue to stand with you as we make DC safe again!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump last week said he would take federal control<\/a> of D.C.\u2019s police department and deploy the National Guard to the city. The president\u2019s moves have drawn heavy blowback from Democrats and D.C. residents.<\/p>\n

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who also recently compared the nation\u2019s capital to multiple<\/a> foreign war zones, said in a post<\/a> on X that \u201cgraffiti is coming down in Washington, DC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGraffiti left untouched to scar public spaces is the visual declaration of a society\u2019s surrender,\u201d Miller said in his Sunday post.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) dismissed Trump\u2019s recent crackdown<\/a> on the nation\u2019s capital as a \u201cstunt\u201d and suggested, like other Democrats, that the effort is meant to distract from other events in the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening here in Washington, D.C., is just a stunt. Donald Trump didn\u2019t like the fact that the walls were closing in on him, that his own base was questioning why he wouldn\u2019t release the Epstein files, why he was protecting very powerful people,\u201d Murphy told NBC News\u2019s Kristen Welker on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t want to talk anymore about the fact that our health care system is about to collapse because of the cuts that they have made, that premiums are going to go up by 75 percent on Americans,\u201d the Connecticut senator added.<\/p>\n

But Republicans and the administration have argued the federal crackdown is a necessary step given high murder and crime rates in D.C., while suggesting that Democrats running cities have done a poor job handling the issue.<\/p>\n

A White House official told The Hill\u2019s sister network NewsNation Sunday that the Saturday night D.C. law enforcement operations involved 1,800 participants and that the National Guard was \u201cnot making arrests at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was updated at 4:57 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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