Mayor Muriel Bowser is outside the city in the Martha vineyard after federalization

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser is outside the city on Thursday after having traveled to the Martha vineyard for a family business, Fox News learned.

The Democrat was not in the district on Thursday, and a source confirmed that she had traveled north to the hot spot of the holidays of Massachusetts Island.

The mayor was traveling for a “family commitment”, according to her office. She expected back in the city on Friday.

“The mayor has a family commitment and had to seek his daughter,” said the mayor’s office when he questioned his trip to Martha’s Vineyard. “She will return to the district tomorrow.”

The mayor of DC reverses the course on Trump’s intervention, minimism the crime of the city

Mayor Muriel Bowser heads for the Martha vineyard after President Donald Trump federalized police on August 11, 2025. (Getty Images)

Bowser made the trip to the island of Massachusetts after President Donald Trump federally the city police service on Monday after a series of high -level crimes.

Trump announced on Monday morning at a crowded press conference that he federalized by the Metropolitan Police Department under the Columbia District Rule Act, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital’s police for 30 days.

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

Edgartown lighthouse in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (istock)

Hundreds of troops from the National Guard have since converged on the national capital, and the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the police of the American Capitol and the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Office help to warming and the order of the city.

Since the crime wave in 2020, the national capital has been shaken by fire that made dead innocent children, a trend of minors committing carjacks who have become mortal in certain cases; And the crimes and the flight attacks against government employees, summer trainees and others, including the fatal shooting of the 21-year-old congress trainee, Eric Tarpinien-Jachym, in June.

The members of the National Guard supervise registrations in a staging area of local and federal laws for applying the law within the US Park Anacostia Operations Facility on August 12, 2025, in Washington. (Craig Hudson for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

Democratic legislators and local leaders criticized Trump during this move, arguing that crime has dropped in recent years after the strongly violent criminal trends of 2020 that have shaken the country’s cities.

Although crimes have tended to drop in recent years after the heavy crime of 2020, the lethality of Crimes at DC has increased spectacularly, which means that the chances of being victims of the city have dropped, but the chances of dying as a victim of a violent crime have increased.

The Council of Criminal Justice published a study in July examining data on violent crimes of 17 major American cities between 2018 and 2024, plunging specifically into the lethality of violent crimes in these cities. He found that Washington, DC, had the highest level of lethality in the group, which included cities such as Baltimore and Chicago, with a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared to 2018.

The police have carried out more than 100 arrests in the district since the start of the repression of the crime. (Andrew Leyden)

DC lettingness jumped 341% compared to 2012 data, the study said that there were 13 homicides for 1,000 severe violent crimes in 2012 and 57 homicides for 1,000 severe violent crimes in 2024.

Bowser criticized the federalization of the city at a city meeting on Tuesday.

“This is a time when the community must intervene,” said Bowser at the meeting of community leaders, who was Live on X. “We must all, to do what we can in our space, in our way, to protect our city and protect our autonomy, protect our original rule and go to the other side of this type and ensure us to elect a Democratic house So that we have a safety net to this authoritarian thrust. “”

She described Trump’s effort “an intrusion into our autonomy”.

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When Trump federally federal for the first time, Bowser described the movement as “unprecedented” but added that it was not “totally surprised”.