India, Aug. 12 -- President Donald Trump activated National Guard troops and assumed control of Washington, DC's police department, a day after he announced a "criminal emergency" in the United States capital.

Some 800 National Guard members began arriving in Washington on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city's police department and reduce crime in what the president called - without substantiation - a lawless city.

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