NATIONAL GUARD IN D.C.: National Guard troops began deploying in Washington, D.C., yesterday, with some joining city police last night. The full contingent of 800 troops expected to be operational by the end of the week.

He took command of the police department and deployed the National Guard under laws and Constitutional powers that give the federal government more sway over the nation’s capital than other cities. Its historically majority Black population wasn’t electing its own city council and mayor until 1973,