{"id":1993656,"date":"2023-08-07T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-council-member-calls-for-national-guard-amid-surge-in-homicides\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T00:27:27","slug":"dc-council-member-calls-for-national-guard-amid-surge-in-homicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-council-member-calls-for-national-guard-amid-surge-in-homicides\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Council member urges deployment of National Guard due to spike in homicides."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-council-member-calls-for-national-guard-amid-surge-in-homicides%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democrat Trayon White Sr. Calls\u2064 for National Guard in D.C. Amid Escalating Crime<\/h2>\n<p>Democrat Trayon White Sr., \u200da \u2064member of the DC Council, has \u2064made a passionate plea for the National Guard to intervene in his city following a recent surge in violence. Three individuals lost their\u200b lives, and two others\u2063 were injured in a shooting incident that occurred in \u200cWhite&#8217;s district on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We need the National Guard in D.C.,&#8221; White emphasized. &#8220;The crime is \u200cspiraling out of control, \u200band it&#8217;s only getting worse with each passing day. Innocent lives, including\u2063 children, are being\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-arrests-4-mexicans-in-smuggling-incident-that-killed-53-migrants-in-texas\/\" title=\"4 Mexicans arrested in Texas smuggling incident that resulted in 53 migrant deaths.\">tragically cut short<\/a>. This cannot become the new normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>White&#8217;s concerns\u200d reflect\u2064 the alarming rise\u200c in crime rates within the city. In August alone, there\u2063 have \u200bbeen ten shootings resulting in thirteen fatalities, bringing the total number of homicides to at least 158 this year. This represents a staggering \u200b22% increase compared\u2064 to the previous year, making 2023 the deadliest year in the past \u2064two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to combat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-exploits-colo-shooting-in-effort-to-get-gun-control-passed\/\" title=\"Biden exploits Colo. shooting in effort to get gun control passed\">escalating violence<\/a>, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated Pamela A. Smith as the first\u200b black woman to lead the Metropolitan Police Department. Smith has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-council-member-calls-for-national-guard-amid-surge-in-homicides\/\" title=\"DC Council member urges deployment of National Guard due to spike in homicides.\">actively deploying law\u2063 enforcement<\/a> to \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-abolishing-police-is-a-disastrous-idea\/\" title=\"Report: Abolishing Police Is a Disastrous Idea\">high-crime areas<\/a>, aiming to address\u200d the\u2064 surge\u200c in violence.<\/p>\n<p>Over\u200b the weekend, tragedy struck once again as three men were shot in \u2063Adams Morgan, a mere\u200c two\u2062 blocks away from bustling \u200dbars and restaurants. Sadly, \u200dtwo of the victims succumbed to their injuries,\u200d while one remains in critical condition. Additionally, three more individuals lost\u200b their lives in \u2062Southeast\u2063 Washington,\u2062 bringing the total number of fatalities on Saturday alone to six.<\/p>\n<h3>Public Outrage and Calls for\u200d Action<\/h3>\n<p>Television \u2064host Greta Van Susteren took to social media\u200b to express her disbelief and frustration at the city&#8217;s leaders \u2063for allowing the situation to \u2064deteriorate to such an extent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2064 simply\u2064 cannot comprehend the inaction of our \u2063DC leaders and the\u200d federal government.\u200b The\u2064 level of violence in DC\u2062 has\u200d reached alarming heights. We \u2063witnessed six murders\u2064 just last night. Shouldn&#8217;t it be the responsibility of our leaders, who themselves enjoy security, to protect the citizens of DC?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Responses on\u2063 social media \u2064varied, with \u2063one\u200b user suggesting that the city&#8217;s leaders are exploiting\u200b gun violence to \u200bpush for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-calls-for-commonsense-gun-safety-laws-after-atlanta-shootings\/\" title=\"Obama Calls For \u2018Commonsense Gun Safety Laws\u2019 After Atlanta Shootings\">stricter gun control measures<\/a>, even at the expense of Black lives. Another individual echoed similar\u200b sentiments, stating that \u2063this\u200b is a common occurrence \u200cin &#8220;blue cities&#8221; where\u2062 government officials \u2064have their own security and are seemingly\u200d unaffected by the rising violence.<\/p>\n<p>As the city grapples with this surge \u200din crime, concerned citizens and public\u2063 figures like Trayon White\u200c Sr. and Greta Van Susteren are demanding\u200c immediate action to ensure the \u200csafety and well-being of\u200d the\u2063 residents of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to\u2064 read more from \u200bThe Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Trayon White Sr. urges the National Guard&#8217;s presence in DC following a tragic incident where three lost their lives and two were injured. White emphasizes the urgent need for intervention, stating that crime rates are spiraling out of control and worsening with each passing day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}