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Protesters confront officers patrolling DC streets after Trump policing takeover

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The federal takeover of policing in Washington D.C. sparked protests near Union Station Thursday night,with demonstrators calling police and National Guard officers «Nazis.»
«You guys safe over here? You guys safe? Are you guys being murdered?» one protester was heard sarcastically asking officers. Others said they are «betraying» the country and «terrorizing the community.»
«You will never know a moment of peace,» one man said, accusing the officers of being «Nazis.»
«Sad incel car. Sad incel car, look at that,» a woman shouted as a Tesla Cybertruck is stopped.
DC’S SOFT-ON-CRIME LEADERS LET TEENS RUN WILD, OPENED DOOR FOR TRUMP TAKEOVER: POLICE GROUP
A police car is parked behind a yellow tape where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 22, 2025. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
«Y’all are the reason why our country is going downhill,» a protester shouted at officers during a traffic stop.
President Donald Trump announced the move on Monday, and the National Guard and a variety of federal agencies, including ICE and the FBI, have been patrolling and conducting operations throughout the city. Some arrests have already been made, including dozens of illegal immigrants.
Attorney General Pam Bondi initially ordered that Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole be in charge of the Metropolitan Police Department as an «emergency police commissioner,» although that directive was later changed to ensure Cole worked with Mayor Muriel Bowser. Bondi also ordering more compliance between local police and federal immigration authorities.
‘RADICAL’ DC OFFICIALS TREATED OFFICERS ‘LIKE CRAP,’ POLICE LEADER SAYS – 7 ATTACKS THAT LED TO TRUMP TAKEOVER

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) conduct a traffic stop near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. on August 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Democrats have criticized the takeover as an overreach, with members of Congress asking for a resolution to terminate the «crime emergency» that was declared by the Trump administration.
«President Trump’s incursions against D.C. are among the most egregious attacks on D.C. home rule in decades. D.C. residents are Americans, worthy of the same autonomy granted to residents of the states,» Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents D.C. as a delegate, said in a statement.
«Our local police force, paid for by D.C. residents, should not be subject to federalization, an action that wouldn’t be possible for any other police department in the country. No emergency exists in D.C. that the president did not create himself, and he is not using the D.C. Police for federal purposes, as required by law,» she added.
TRUMP ACTIVATES NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO ADDRESS ‘TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL’ CRIME IN WASHINGTON

Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat from the District of Colombia, during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the White House blasted the resolution, as the Trump administration said the intention is to lower crime in the capital city.
«But instead of supporting what should be a bipartisan measure to Make DC Safe Again, Democrats are burying their heads in the sand, denying there is a problem, and carrying the torch for dangerous criminals that terrorize DC communities,» White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital.
«D.C. residents know the reality on the ground – crime was out of control and President Trump’s actions are making the city safer. The left’s refusal to support widely popular issues with the American public – like stopping violent crime – are why their approval ratings are at historic lows and will continue to tank,» she added.
The city is suing over the action, arguing that it hinders the ability of the district to self-govern.
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«We are suing to block the federal government takeover of D.C. police. By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law. This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it,» D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb posted to X on Friday.
«The federal government’s power over DC is not absolute, and it should not be exercised as such. Section 740 of the Home Rule Act permits the President to request MPD’s services. But it can only be done temporarily, for special emergencies, and solely for federal purposes,» he added.
Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
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Justice Barrett teases new memoir in abrupt conference exit

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett knows how to command an audience.
This was crystallized Monday night at the Swissotel in Chicago, where she spoke for just three minutes to several hundred judges and legal professionals gathered for the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference.
Her remarks, though short, were optimistic and warm. She urged the courts to keep their sense of «camaraderie and professionalism» despite inevitable, sharp disagreements. This, she said, is «what enables the judicial system to work well.»
Barrett smiled fondly as she remembered her time on the 7th Circuit, where she served for several years prior to her nomination to the Supreme Court. She introduced the next speaker, who took the stage to another standing ovation.
And just as quickly as she entered the packed ballroom, she was gone.
BARRETT EVISCERATES JACKSON, SOTOMAYOR TAKES ON A ‘COMPLICIT’ COURT IN CONTENTIOUS FINAL OPINIONS
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers remarks at the 2025 Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Swissotel Chicago on Aug. 18, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
As the youngest justice on the bench, Barrett’s ideology over her nearly five-term tenure on the Supreme Court has been the subject of furious speculation, and at times, just plain fury.
Conservatives have panned her record as more moderate than that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she once clerked. Liberals have been incensed by her reluctance to side more consistently with the court’s left-leaning justices on abortion, federal powers and other seminal cases.
Barrett’s voting record is more moderate than Scalia’s, according to a June New York Times data analysis that found she plays an «increasingly central role» on the court.
Barrett used her time on Monday to implore the group of judges to maintain a sense of grace, decorum, and respect for colleagues, despite the inevitable, heated disagreements that will occur.
The warm, if somewhat lofty, sense of idealism on display is one that is expected to be echoed further in her forthcoming memoir, «Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,» slated for publication next month.
The theme of Monday’s remarks, to the extent there was one, stressed working toward common goals, accepting ideological differences and embracing disagreement while keeping a broader perspective — a point echoed by Barrett and earlier speakers, who cited David Brooks repeatedly in praising purpose-driven public service.
The upside of so many hours spent in disagreement, Barrett said, is learning how to strike that balance.
«We know how to argue well,» she said. «We also know how to argue without letting it consume relationships.»
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The view from the 2025 Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Swissotel Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, on Aug 18, 2025. Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered brief remarks to attendees. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
This has been especially true during Trump’s second term, as the Supreme Court presided over a record blitz of emergency appeals and orders filed by the administration and other aggrieved parties in response to the hundreds of executive orders signed in his first months in office.
The high court has ruled in Trump’s favor in the majority of emergency applications, allowing the administration to proceed with its ban on transgender service members in the military, its termination of millions of dollars in Education Department grants and its firing of probationary employees across the federal government, among many other actions.
Even so, it is Barrett who has emerged as the most-talked-about justice on the high court this term, confounding and frustrating observers as they tried and failed to predict how she would vote.
She’s been hailed as the «most interesting justice on the bench,» a «trailblazer,» and an iconoclast, among other things.
But on Monday, she stressed that the commonalities among judges, both for the 7th Circuit and beyond, are far greater than what issues divide them.
As for her own work, Barrett offered few details — her remarks began and ended in less time than it takes to microwave a burrito.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett attends U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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It’s unclear if, or to what extent, Barrett’s schedule may have changed at the eleventh hour — a reflection of the many demands placed on sitting Supreme Court justices, whose schedules are often subject to change or cancellation at a moment’s notice.
The 7th Circuit did not immediately respond to Fox News’s questions as to what, if anything, had changed on Barrett’s end.
Questions swirled as she exited. Had she planned longer remarks? Was the agenda misread? Or is she saving details for her memoir and looming book tour, as one reporter suggested?
Her appearance, full of irony, left observers with more questions than answers. Whether she addresses them in the weeks ahead remains to be seen.
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Anti‑corruption protests hit European nation as calls for new elections grow

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Anti-corruption protests rocked the Serbian capital of Belgrade as student-led demonstrators clashed with supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic and his political party, demanding new elections.
Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and Serbian security forces have intensified over the last week, with protesters setting fire to an office building belonging to the ruling party in Novi Sad.
«You will see the full determination of the Serbian state. We will use everything at our disposal to restore law, peace and order,» President Vucic said in an address to the nation Saturday night.
SERBIA ROCKED BY ANTI-CORRUPTION PROTESTS AFTER CONSTRUCTION TRAGEDY
Demonstrators stand in clouds of tear gas during anti-government protests in Belgrade on August 16. (Oliver Bunic/AFP via Getty Images)
Tens of thousands of college students have been marching and protesting since December, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of a railway station in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. The canopy at the railway station collapsed Nov. 1 after renovations led by two Chinese companies.
The government is accused of not implementing student demands, including the release of all documentation related to the reconstruction of the train station. In his speech, Vucic said that justice must be served for all those responsible for the 16 victims of the Novi Sad rail station collapse.
Critics have called out the heavy-handed response used against protesters. Alan Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, said in a post on X that he was concerned with the rising violence.

Students and anti-government demonstrators light the flashlights of their mobile phones during a protest, which has become a national movement for change following the deadly November 2024 Novi Sad railway station roof collapse, in Belgrade, Serbia, March 15. (Igor Pavicevic/Reuters.)
SERBIA, CAUGHT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, COULD MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO
«I call for calm and respect of the right to peaceful assembly. Serbian authorities must uphold Council of Europe standards. The rule of law and respect for human rights must prevail,» Berset said.
Serbia’s foreign minister, Marko Djuric, responded to the criticism in a statement to Fox News Digital. «We respect and protect peaceful protest—it is part of our democratic fabric. But when demonstrations turn into physical attacks and attempts to destabilize the country, the government has both the right and the duty to respond.»
SERBIA, CAUGHT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, COULD MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO
«This is by far the biggest threat Vucic has faced in the last 13 years, and it is very unlikely that Vucic will weather the storm without elections,» Helena Ivanov, senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
«The country is not functioning, and the situation is dangerously escalating. The only way out of the problem is to hold free and fair elections as soon as possible. «Everything else will further destabilize the situation, which could have devastating consequences,» Ivanov added.
The government is accused of not fulfilling one of the original student demands, including the release of all documentation related to the reconstruction of the train station.

Serbian riot police clash with anti-government protesters in Belgrade on August 13. (Oliver Bunic/AFP via Getty Images)
What originally started as spontaneous protests voicing dissatisfaction with the government’s failed response to the railway catastrophe transformed into a movement opposing widespread corruption and the erosion of the rule of law under Vucic.
One of the largest protests in Serbia’s history took place on March 15, with nearly 350,000 people gathered in Slavija Square in central Belgrade.

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City in 2019. Vucic said he accidentally voted against Russia in a Ukrainian resolution because he was «probably tired.» (Reuters)
Serbia’s then-Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation in January amid the nationwide protests, making him the most senior government member to step down.
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«Serbian students put forward several demands, the first and most important being the release of documentation regarding the reconstruction of the Novi Sad train station, where the collapse of the canopy killed 16 people. To this day, no one has been held accountable,» Filip Ubović, a student from the University of Belgrade and protest participant on the ground in Belgrade, told Fox News Digital.
Ubovic said the protests were originally aimed at influencing the institutions responsible for upholding the rule of law, and not directly against the ruling party. As the government failed to hold any officials accountable for the tragedy or release any information on the canopy collapse, the protesters realized that it was time to demand elections.
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