DC Mayor Fears Race War, Concerned Over Outside Agitators
WASHINGTON, DC — Mayor Muriel Bowser blamed outside agitators for creating havoc and disrupting peaceful demonstrations over the weekend in the District of Columbia. She criticized President Donald Trump's Twitter attacks about the violence and said outsiders will not be allowed to start a race war.
"We will not tolerate violence of any kind in Washington, D.C.," said Bowser, during a Monday public safety news briefing. "We don't tolerate it if it's on the streets between rival crews, and we won't tolerate it against our police officers, the men and women who are charged with keeping our community safe. And we certainly won't tolerate it against our residents and visitors."
Bowser added that the collective attention of the District was on preventing violence of all kinds, all forms, and in all places.
"What we're certainly not going to do is stand by and allow outside agitators to come to our city to distract us from our work with D.C. residents," she said. "Many of our residents are out there protesting themselves and doing so peacefully."
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