1932 Bonus Army Encampments Destroyed on the National Mall

1932 Bonus Army Encampments Destroyed on the National Mall
After President Donald Trump said homeless people in D.C. must be moved far from the city, crews tore down an encampment ... The Trump administration's federal takeover of Washington, D.C. is escalating with arrests at high-profile locations and homeless ...

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completely unrelated topic. Um,

regarding the president's efforts in

Washington DC, do you have any specifics

about how homeless people will be dealt

with, where they would be moved to, what

what does this look like? I do. Yes. And

it's an important question, so thank you

for raising it. Um, the Metropolitan

Police Department with the support of

the new federal agencies who have been

surging on the streets of the District

of Columbia are going to enforce the

laws that are already on the books here

in Washington DC. For far too long,

these laws have been completely ignored.

Uh, and the homelessness problem has

ravaged this city. So DC code 221307

and DC municipal regulation 24100 give

the Metropolitan Police Department the

authority to take action uh when it

comes to homeless encampments

encampments. So homeless individuals

will be given the option to leave their

encampment to be taken to a homeless

shelter to be offered addiction or

mental health services and if they

refuse they will be susceptible to fines

or to jail time. Again these are

pre-existing laws that are already on

the books. They have not been enforced

which is part of the reason uh for this

nationalizing of the federalizing of the

National Guard to bring in this

assistance for law enforcement. While we

are targeting criminals and trying to

remove criminals off of the streets, we

also want to make DC safe and beautiful

and that remove in involves removing

mentally disturbed individuals and

homeless encampments as well. Um, so we

will be using these regulations and code

that already exists to clean up our

streets. And we've already had great

success. Uh, not many of you picked up

on this, but the United States Park

Police has actually done remarkable work

in terms of removing homeless

encampments from the city. Since the

president signed this executive order in

March, 70 homeless encampments have been

removed by the US Park Police. There are

only two homeless encampments remaining

in DC federal parks under the National

Park Services jurisdiction. And the

removal of those two remaining camps is

scheduled for this week. So the US Park

Police will be leading this effort

alongside MPD.

Just very quickly, he had talked in one

of his social media posts about moving

them very far outside of the city. Is

that off?

Nope, it's not off. We're exploring how

we could do that. Um but again, homeless

shelters, uh um offered addiction and

mental health services, uh or jail if

they refuse are the options on the table

right now. And we'll continue to explore

that option.

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