The top federal prosecutor in Washington is vowing to crack down on gun crimes in the nation’s capitol.
“Hey, thugs with guns: We comin’,” President Donald Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin wrote on March 1 the social media platform X.
Martin on Monday ordered prosecutors in his office to pursue every firearms case referred to them and to seek pretrial detention against every person charged with such an offense, according to memorandum obtained by Reuters.
The directive is part of a new initiative he called “Make D.C. Safe Again.”
“We will flood the federal district court with cases – to make our City safe,” Martin wrote in an email accompanying the new memorandum….