The top three elected officials in the District of Columbia were on Capitol Hill Thursday to defend their management of local law enforcement activities.
They were also on hand to push back against Republican aspersions about crime in the capital city that President Donald Trump used to justify his takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of the National Guard.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council Chair Phil Mendelson and attorney general Brian Schwalb — all Democrats — were invited to appear before the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which last week approved a sweeping set of bills that would pare back…
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