Federal night patrol: The Trump administration plans to send more FBI agents to patrol the streets of D.C. at night, according to officials who spoke anonymously with The New York Times. "Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.'s Washington field office, but it was not immediately clear if agency leaders would need to pull additional personnel from nearby cities," the sources tell the Times. The deployment of federal authorities has already been going on for at least two nights, but it is expected to ramp up further in the coming days.
This is at least in part related to the attack on the prominent Department of Government Efficiency engineer known as Big Balls. Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer who worked on the team formerly helmed by Elon Musk (and now works in the Social Security Administration), was bloodied and beaten following an attempted carjacking in D.C. last week. The alleged suspects are two 15-year-olds. "The suspects demanded the victim's vehicle and then assaulted one of the victims," said the police on August 7. "During the assault, an MPD cruiser pulled into the block causing the suspects to flee. Two of the suspects were apprehended by the on-scene officers."
"Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released," wrote the president on Truth Social. "They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it's going to happen now!"
