Trump's federalization of the D.C. police is spurning outrage among Democrats and local activists claiming this is another example why D.C. needs statehood.

I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump said, joined by US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who will oversee the force.

When President Trump announced Monday that he was bringing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control in order to crack down on what he described as “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” in the nation’s capital,