DC police ‘police confusion stimulates mockery of social media

Washington, DC, head of the Metropolitan Police Department, Pamela Smith, faces the backlash and a mockery on social networks after seeming not to understand the question of the media on the “chain of command” of the ministry in the middle of the recent federalization of the department by President Donald Trump.

“Can you tell us what is the chain of command now?” A journalist was heard asking Smith at a press conference on Tuesday morning.

“What does that mean?” The police chief responded.

“Well, does Pam Bondi speak to the mayor? Is it you? How does it work?” The journalist continued, before Bowser entered to explain the department’s chain of command following Trump invoking article 740 on Monday of the Columbia district law, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital’s police forces.

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DC police chief Pamela Smith asks the media questions after Trump federalized the DC police service. (Fox News)

The exchange occurred in the middle of the brief Bowser press conference on Tuesday morning after his meeting with the Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Our organizational painting, how we do business, how we finance the police, none of this has changed,” said Bowser, adding that Bondi works as “proxy” of Trump under the order of federalization and that the pair is in close communication.

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“We have more police and we want to make sure we use them,” she added.

President Donald Trump announced on August 11, 2025 that he federalized the DC police service to limit crime in the city. (Ben Curtis / The Associated Press)

The exchange of Smith seeming not to understand the question of the journalist on the “chain of command” of the ministry sparked mockery and online backlash on Tuesday afternoon.

“That’s who is in charge of the DC police.” Popular Conservative account Tiktok Libs Published in the exchange.

“This is why Dei is a disease”, national co -president of the RNC Youth Advisory CJ PEARSON advice Posted at X in response to exchange.

Smith was previously the first director of shares of the ministry, where she “led the ministry’s efforts to diversity, equity and inclusion”, according to her biography.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the press of the deployment of federal law enforcement agents in Washington to strengthen the presence of the local police, while the defense secretary Pete Hegseth shows him, in the White House press room, in Washington DC, on August 11, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

“WTF! The DC police chief does not even know what the chain of command” means, another conservative account X Published in response.

“Smith was previously the” chief of the shares “of the police service” “. Trump War Salle Account displayed on X.

“Breathtakingness of the mind: the DC police chief reveals that she does not know which chain of command is. People are the police chief of Washington, DC,” Another criticism posted.

“New: Washington DC police chief Pamela A. Smith does not know what the” chain of command “means. Collin Rugg posted.

Fox Digital contacted the Metropolitan Police Department and the Bowser office to comment on the exchange and the subsequent backlash, but did not immediately receive responses.

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Trump federally federally the DC police department following a series of high -level attacks and murders in the city in recent weeks, in particular the fatal shooting of a congress trainee in June, the fatal shooting of a pair of staff of the Israeli embassy in May and a brutal attack on a former department of government efficiency earlier in August.

Hundreds of troops of the National Guard will flood the city after President Donald Trump federating the DC police service on August 11, 2025. (Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

“Our capital was overwhelmed by violent gangs and blood thirsty criminals, itinerant crowds of wild young people, drug addicts and homeless,” he said. “And we are not going to let it happen. We are not going to take it.”

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Trump said it was “DC release day”, adding: “We are going to resume our capital”.

“We take it up under the authority which is the President of the United States. I officially invoke article 740 of the Columbia district rule. You know what it is. And place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. … In addition, I deploy the National Guard to help restore law, order and public security in Washington, DC and they will be allowed to do their job properly, “he said on Monday.