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42 Monks said:
she literally couldn't have asked for a better situation

the fact anyone considers her a victim in this is absurd
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Never called her a victim. Just that she has no leverage - No control over her own budget for the city. so she really had no choice but to fall in line. I don't feel bad for her throwing her political career in the tank. She partly brought some of this on herself.
 
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Never called her a victim. Just that she has no leverage - No control over her own budget for the city. so she really had no choice but to fall in line. I don't feel bad for her throwing her political career in the tank. She partly brought some of this on herself.
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Its not about leverage because they didn't want it to begin with.

Her approval rating has been sliding backwards for years while she says one thing then does another. The only reason it rebounded in 2025 was because Trump's admin was a perfect out - DC is blue by default so the instant there's anything 'other' to blame, that's the the bailout strategy.

Bowser is the people's champ for fundraising and getting investor buy-in - then she's mysteriously all out of answers when a brand new homeless shelter can't get resourced. They couldn't even process half the housing vouchers they cleared out camps and projects for: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/16/dc-homeless-crisis-encampment-cleared/

as well as



The police commander debacle back in May was going to be something she had to answer for as well.: DC police commander suspended, accused of changing crime statistics

She rolled over on sanctuary city stats months ago without a fraction of the spotlight: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/05/28/dc-mayor-seeks-repeal-of-sanctuary-city-law

all of the above are before the white house decided to give a fukk too
This Trump shyt bails her and DC City Council out of any responsibility right on time. They tried their best... or something :manny:
 
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DC Mayor issues order to continue Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center Mayor Bowser orders the SBEOC to manage D.C.'s response, urging federal agents to follow policing protocols.
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“While the Feds were there, and as misinformation was spreading, no less than 3 small stampedes occurred” - PoPville

"Dear PoPville, I'm writing to clarify the details of a very unsafe situation brought about by the federal governments escalation of force in the district. On Friday the 29th, Coolidge High school hosted a football game. Almost immediately, an MPD helicopter began to buzz the neighborhood at low...
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On Friday the 29th, Coolidge High school hosted a football game. Almost immediately, an MPD helicopter began to buzz the neighborhood at low altitude. Multiple neighbors than began to investigate what was happening when agents from FBI, HSI, ATF, US Secret Service (as well as MPD) began to swarm the school. I would estimate there were about 50 to 60 of them. Rumors began to swirl that this was an immigration raid (with a large crowd now largely confined to a closed field). In reality, high school kids had begun fighting, leading to the rest of the game being cancelled.

While the Feds were there, and as misinformation was spreading, no less than 3 small stampedes occurred (about 30 – 40 kids at any given time). Additionally,

Federal agents were not forthcoming with any information about why they were there and were seen on multiple occasions yelling at teachers and threatening to arrest them (for trespassing, which they weren’t). Most clearly had no idea what they were doing there and their presence, shouting, threatening and generally not taking any lead in the situation could have unnecessarily led to real physical harm. They were not doing crowd control (as they likely have no experience in this), but were actually the agents of chaos themselves.

When most kids had left, the Feds left. However, multiple children continued to be harassed by officers to leave. What they failed to realize was that the kids were waiting for buses – buses that weren’t coming because they had blocked streets for half a mile in all directions. Rather than allowing the traffic through so people could leave, they instead turned up all sirens to max levels in order to hurt the eardrums of anyone they had then trapped.

This is exactly the situation community members have feared could quickly grow out of hand. The feds have no experience with crowd control or neighborhood policing, create unsafe environments when called in by MPD, and MPD tries to match the bravado of ICE agents by acting like crass bullies.

This was a highschool football fight – something I think local police have been dealing with in every town since the history of highschool football rivalries. Why the ATF needed to get involved while armed to the teeth and wearing tacticool plate carriers is beyond comprehension. MPD should have handled the situation alone, dispersed the game and got on with their night – not call in their friends in the Fed to create a multi hour, near riot in the neighborhood.
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Smh. All these feds are bored. They ITCHING for something to pop off. This shyt ain't gonna end well
 
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TheDarkCloud said:
Yall been following the Dacara Thompson story? They found her body and the arrested the guy who presumably murdered her. Build the fukkin wall, bruh.

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I have been following the story and I knew that she was dead. Adults usually don't go missing for a couple of days and found alive.

This is very saddening.
 
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Not finna read all this right now, but 2 Brehs at the NYT talk about "the return of the "talk""

I guess they're the designated Black interpreters for the white audience, but the "talk" never left. And to call it talk, makes it sound like the birds and the bees, instead of daily lessons and reminders from nearly anyone that can grab the ear of a young man.

 
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WIA20XX said:
Not finna read all this right now, but 2 Brehs at the NYT talk about "the return of the "talk""

I guess they're the designated Black interpreters for the white audience, but the "talk" never left. And to call it talk, makes it sound like the birds and the bees, instead of daily lessons and reminders from nearly anyone that can grab the ear of a young man.

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Perhaps you or another DC based member can correct me, but in 4 of the previous 5 decades wasnt DC majority Black in terms of residents, political leadership, and law enforcement forces?

If thats the case, it would have impacted the relationship between police and residents, and how parents teach/warn their sons about interacting with cops.

The two previous generations of parents grew up in "Chocolate City" DC.
Now their metro area is flooded with white outsider military presence.
 
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