The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy.

Some Ohio National Guard members will be deployed across our nation’s capital. Governor Mike DeWine announced Saturday that 150 military police from the Ohio National Guard will be sent to Washington, D.C. to support the DC National Guard, according to the governor’s spokesperson.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is putting Washington, D.C. police "under direct federal control" -- invoking Section 740 of D.C.'s Home Rule Act, which deals with control of the city's police force.

Trump says grass across DC's parks needs replaced, vowing not only to tackle crime in the nation's capital but to make D.C. "so beautiful again."

National Guard members patrolling Washington DC may soon be armed, reversing an earlier decision. This follows Trump's plan to federalise policing in the city, drawing criticism from residents and officials who decry it as an overreach of power.

The new vehicles are dark blue with “ICE” sprawled in large, yellow letters on the side of the cars, along with the phrase “Defend the Homeland” in all caps.

America needs to know why your nation’s capital, a place where 700,000 tax-paying Americans live, should be the 51st state,” said DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.

In southeast Washington, DC, children stood in line Friday to receive new backpacks filled with school supplies, while community organizers passed out free hot dogs and hamburgers to teenagers to celebrate the last few days of summer before.