Report: Federal Law Officers Warned Of Possible Attack In DC
Federal authorities were alerted Thursday to a possible plot targeting law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C., by a group seeking the release of detainees, according to a Thursday report.
A federal source told Just the News that the alert warned of a possible attack as soon as Friday by a group calling itself the “FLARE Coalition,” reportedly operating near Union Station and Columbus Circle.
According to the notification, the group planned to disable federal vehicles by slashing tires and breaking windows, attack officers — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel — with fireworks and improvised explosives, and use chemical agents to “neutralize federal agents and take duty weapons.”
FLARE has recently urged Congress to release the unredacted files related to Jeffrey Epstein, to impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office.
The group has described itself as a “24/7 occupation in front of D.C.’s Union Station,” and as a “non-violent anti-fascist collective working toward and beyond the impeachment, conviction, and removal of President Donald Trump.”
The threat follows Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., last month, a move that expires next week without congressional approval.
The takeover created the Safe and Beautiful Task Force, deployed National Guard troops, and placed the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control in an effort to curb crime and clean up the city, Just the News added.
There were no further details as of Friday morning, Conservative Brief confirmed.
Trump’s federalization of Washington, D.C., on the heels of declaring a “crime emergency,” was met with mixed reactions, but it has also launched a conversation among residents and members of the media about a subject that, for years, has been hidden in plain view.
The move has been so successful that DC’s Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, ordered the city to continue working with federal law enforcement officers, even after Trump’s takeover is set to expire next week.
Bowser signed the order Tuesday, saying that city officials will “ensure coordination with federal law enforcement to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District” even when the public safety emergency Trump proclaimed over crime in D.C. last month ends. The order has no expiration date and takes effect right away.
Trump administration officials said in the weeks since their takeover, more than 1,000 people have been arrested in D.C.
The administration has bragged about a further decrease in crime during the takeover.
In a Monday post on Truth Social, Trump referred to the city as “a crime-free zone” and commended Bowser for helping with the crackdown. In her order, the mayor stated that since Trump federalized the city’s police department, “violent crime in the District has noticeably decreased.”
In a statement posted on social media, Bowser said that she issued the order “to provide the pathway forward beyond the Presidential emergency.”
Federal agencies have embedded with local police, assisting in arrests, searches, and warrant executions while patrolling the city in unmarked vehicles, CNN noted.
At the same time, immigration enforcement surged. Since August 7, federal officials have arrested about 300 individuals in the district without legal immigration status — more than ten times the typical weekly number of ICE arrests in the city, CNN found.
During the first six months of Trump’s current term, ICE averaged about 12 arrests per week in Washington, according to data from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson stated that the media was attempting to dismiss the “exceptional results” of Trump’s efforts in Washington, D.C.
“The drops in crime are not ‘moderate,’ they are life-changing for the countless of DC residents and visitors who have not been murdered, robbed, carjacked, or victims of overall violent crime in the last week,” Jackson said. “The priority of this operation remains getting violent criminals off the streets — regardless of immigration status.”
