“ Attack on cities managed by Democrats: Trump takes DC’s repression at a new level, bending a new authority ”

“We are not going to take it”: American president Donald Trump announced a major federal overhaul of the police at Washington DC and the mass deployment of the National Guard to repress “violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, itinerant crowds of young wild, drug maniacs and homeless”. The American capital with the lowest crime rate in three decades, Sharon Gaffney of France 24 welcomes the legal analyst and the former American federal prosecutor Eric Lisann to offer a deepening legal and political analysis and a more in-depth understanding of what is at stake while the United States continues its rapid path to authoritarianism.