Bowser seeks to reassure DC residents amid federal police takeover

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) wrote a letter to local residents Friday seeking to quell anxiety over the Trump administration’s federal takeover of Washington's law enforcement.

Under a provision in the district's Home Rule Act, President Trump earlier this week deployed National Guard troops and federal officials to patrol the streets in the nation's capital. Bowser has blasted the move as "unsettling and unprecedented."

“It has been an unsettling and unprecedented week in our city.