D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser pledged to a packed room Thursday night that she was working to disentangle D.C. police from working alongside federal immigration authorities, as some in the crowd shouted in protest and others made emotional pleas to the mayor.

“People want you to fight back!” one protester yelled as an officer escorted him out of the room at the Lamond-Riggs library in Northeast Washington, accusing Bowser (D) of “selling home rule down the river” and calling her a “traitor.”

Federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — which also houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — continue to patrol with D.C. police as part of a federal task force more than a month after the end of President Donald Trump’s 30-day emergency order, in

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