#CopCity was a preview of the acceleration of ovepolicing and militarized policing we are seeing in #OccupiedDC and in other Dem urban areas. This statement from a Cop City activist is so important. Please read it. https://www.freejack.co/2026/03/03/584/
A Statement From Jack – Free Jack

In #occupieddc today big crowd in front of Target — a band, singers, people chanting, as they have been doing for 36 weeks! We marched in, unfurled a banner, took up space and made a LOT of noise #weaintbuyinit
Seen today outside the Metro in #OccupiedDC #Weaintbuyingit #RemovetheRegime
“harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus.” - PoPville

"Dear PoPville, This morning at 8:20, 10 uniformed national guard troops and 3 uniformed MPD spent 25 minutes harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus. This is on 20th and O Street, NW Half the kids eventually seemed to leave to find a different bus stop and the police and the National Guard followed them."

PoPville - Welcome to the beautiful life
Playing with the DC Activist Street Band #DCASB [https://dcasb.org/] for the "We Are All DC" protest, September 6, 2025. (Actually, at the moment of the photo, I'd stopped playing for a second. Thus the flute is being held rather than played.) It was pretty massive. #FreeDC #DisenfranchisedCity #OccupiedDC #MarchingBand #music
The militia cleared unhoused camps to make room for their tents;
"An additional $5 million for a tent city has been approved, ... along with $600K in air conditioning rental & more than $500K for land mobile radios."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/national-guardsmen-deployed-to-dc-balance
#news #irony #resist #authoritarianism #fascism #dictatorship #OccupiedDC #WashingtonDC #DC
With no end in sight, National Guard troops deployed to DC grow weary

With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

CNN
Washington DC sues over Trump’s deployment of the national guard;
City’s attorney general says the hundreds of troops are essentially an ‘involuntary military occupation’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/04/national-guard-washington-dc-lawsuit-trump-administration
#WashingtonDC #DC #OccupiedDC #news #PoliceState #lawsuit #DisenfranchisedCity
Washington DC sues over Trump’s deployment of the national guard

City’s attorney general says the hundreds of troops are essentially an ‘involuntary military occupation’

The Guardian

By #JacobKnutson via #DemocracyDocket on Sept 4, 2025

The #DistrictOColumbia sued President Donald #Trump Thursday to end his deployment of thousands of #NationalGuard troops in the nation’s capital.

The lawsuit alleges the president and his allies violated the #Constitution and federal law and the district’s #sovereignty by using over 2,200 National Guard troops from several different states to conduct #LawEnforcement activities in the district

#DC #OccupiedDC

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dc-sues-trump-block-national-guard-troop-deployment/

D.C. Sues Trump to Block Massive Troop Deployment

Read more here.

Democracy Docket
DC’s Police Union Head Is the Biggest Cheerleader of Trump’s DC Police Takeover;
Gregg Pemberton amplifies Trump’s crime narrative. He says it all goes back to the city’s policing reforms.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/28/dcs-police-union-head-is-the-biggest-cheerleader-of-trumps-dc-police-takeover/
#WashingtonDC #DC #OccupiedDC #news #ConflictOfInterest #PoliceState
DC’s Police Union Head Is the Biggest Cheerleader of Trump’s DC Police Takeover - Washingtonian

Soon after he ordered a federal takeover of DC’s police department, President Trump announced a Department of Justice inquiry into whether police higher-ups had manipulated data to give the false impression that crime declined this year. The announcement coincided with one of DC Police Union chair Gregg Pemberton’s Fox News appearances. In the segment, Pemberton—who

Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
Film the Police DC: If you see something, say something

From Seven:Thirty 730DC newsletter, September 3, 2025: > If you see something, say something: Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams la...