District Police to Borrow Officers for Fall Protests
Officials in the nation’s capital are trying to borrow thousands of additional police officers for what they believe could be the largest protests since the Vietnam War.
The Metropolitan Police Department has recently contacted officials in New York; Baltimore; Charlotte, N.C.; and Philadelphia in an effort to increase its pool of available personnel to help maintain order during the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, set for Oct. 2-3.
Officials believe as many as 40,000 demonstrators could converge on Washington the preceding weekend.
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