I am so fucking angry about this (former DC resident). It already pisses me off that Congress can and does put their nose in DC affairs but this shit is infuriating. Trump is putting together a military occupation in the only place he legally can and because the Mayor said mean things to him over the weekend.
In addition to there being all these out of state national guardsmen here, there is a strange assortment of men who look like either law enforcement or military, but refuse to identify themselves, aren't wearing badges or name tags or other identifiers. They are just patrolling downtown. People were able to figure out yesterday that at least some are from the Bureau of Prison's riot control squad from Texas and San Diego, but nobody has confirmed where all of them are from.
So it really feels like we are being occupied.
+1 to this. It’s scary AF right now. I’m more scared to live here now than I was after 9/11.