Far-left group protests Trump making DC safe from crime, claims president is trying to provoke violence

In the wake of President Donald Trump announcing measures on Monday morning to curb violence in the nation’s capital, protestors in Washington, DC claimed that the efforts, including placing the city’s police department under federal control, was provoking "violence."

"The President has been trying to provoke violence here, right here in the black communities and the brown communities," a woman told the crowd. "Having ICE kidnap our neighbors. Having the black community be harassed and profiled and want a response. We say hell no, we won’t go. When we say we won't go, that mean we're not going into their, to those mass incarcerate—into, into their prisons and enslavement. We won't go into their, to their ICE, those, what he call, his beautiful centers that he got. We won't go to where alligators live. Hell no, we won't go."

"... We believe there is a better way to protect us all, one that respects rights to build trust and keep our communities truly safe, and that is fascism free. Fear is not a roadmap for safety. It is a burial. It fails, it fails hardest on the black communities.""This is, I want to be clear, we've been here before," she continued. "This is a long history, well before today, the black communities bearing the brunt of aggressive policing. Data and reports from many credible organizations show patterns. Black people are more likely to be stopped, searched, questioned, arrested, and harmed, in encounters with the law... the burden can multiply, not by making harm more rare, but making it more visible and more likely to escalate.

"So be clear, this has been going on, but as you bring more policemen, it's going to escalate. Black Washingtonians have long recognized that community violence cannot be solved through state violence, and have asked for meaningful investments and solutions that are proven to work. Racist over-policing goes beyond DC, as the roots of American police and in many reasons, like in slave patrols, police have been enslaving and murdering black people with freedom for punishment for centuries. 

"I stand in front of you today with a signal to the residents of DC and the country that we will not be idle as oppressive structures try to harm our communities and take power. The fight for black liberation and the liberation of all people will not stop no matter our oppression, intimidation, manipulation tactics. We have the right to demand respect, to protect ourselves, and protect each other. 

She also said that "white people’s civil rights have never been in danger because they are white. The white civil rights represents the desire from the Jim Crow, full stop."