Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside D.C. Police headquarters Friday, protesting what they call a federal overreach in the wake of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appointment of the DEA administrator as Washington’s "emergency police commissioner.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday evening ordered DC’s mayor and police department to accept Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, as the district’s “emergency police commissioner” and give him full control of the department during the federal takeover — quickly drawing rebukes from the district’s mayor and attorney general,

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy