What do you think about Trump’s announcement to seize control of the Metropolitan Police Department?
Christine Madison, Washington, D.C., resident for 56 years (originally from South Carolina)
“I think he stinks. I have a son that’s with the D.C. Police Department. He doesn’t know what [the control shift] looks like. I don’t think that he is correct in doing it. Well, I can say a whole lot of it. But, no, I don’t go along with that.”
Alliyah Smith, Washington, D.C., resident for five years (originally from Dallas
“I’m scared, concerned. You just have to pay more attention, a lot of people I know have been aimlessly hating Trump, but we actually have to be vigilant, because something could happen. If you don’t know the laws, then you could be taken in for something that you didn’t even know was illegal.”
Natalie Hopkinson, Washington, D.C., resident for 25 years (originally from Ontario, Canada)
“I think it’s an abomination. To have the person who took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the execution of the children who were wrongfully accused of being the Central Park jogger killers back in the ’80s — like to have that person take over our city is unacceptable.”
Taylor Moody, Washington, D.C., resident for three years (originally from Philadelphia)
“Trump is definitely trying to strip Black people of their voices and rights by going through our communities and just trying to take over everything. He’s trying to dominate every state so that he will be able to control and dictate us, which is a problem.”
Compiled by Maven McGann