After witnessing violence close to her place of employment, ABC News journalist Kyra Phillips is endorsing President Trump’s decision to take over the police force in Washington, D.C.
President Trump declared earlier this week that the city’s police force would be taken over by the federal government in order to combat crime. He announced the deployment of the National Guard and the temporary appointment of Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the Metropolitan Police Department.
Trump declared at his announcement, “We’re going to retake our capital on this Liberation Day in Washington, DC.”
ABC’s D.C. bureau employee Kyra Phillips told viewers she has seen firsthand the increase in crime in the area around her workplace. She remembered being attacked only two streets away in the previous two years.
Phillips described it as quite frightening. I retaliated. Even though I couldn’t see any weapons in his hands, I thought it was my only option. She further mentioned that her assailant appeared mentally ill, was homeless, and was only partially clothed.
Phillips added that a coworker’s automobile was stolen a block from the bureau that very morning. There have been two shootings in the area in the past six months, one of which was fatal.
Additionally, President Trump has pledged to handle homelessness in D.C., stating on Truth Social that criminals will be imprisoned and homeless individuals relocated far from the Capital.
It will be simpler. Be ready! Trump wrote, “Mr. Nice Guy will not exist.”
