Muriel Bowser: “We have bigger fish to fry”

We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD [the Metropolitan Police Department] has been able to do in this city.

And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can’t say that, given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised.

My expectation, though it can change, is that they will deploy the Guard on federal properties — that includes parks, monuments, federal buildings.

We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.