We didn't request any assistance, DC police did not request any assistance from our neighbors, and we do have throughout the national capital region arrangements to assist each other if we -- if there is ever a mass event that requires additional policing. We haven't taken the step of requesting that assistance from around National Capitol Region. And we haven't requested assistance from other states.

Muriel Bowser

Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party currently serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia. Prior to her inauguration in January 2015, Bowser served as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, representing Ward 4. Elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 2004, Bowser was elected to the Council in a special election in 2007, to succeed Adrian Fenty, who had been elected Mayor. She was re-elected in 2008 and 2012 and ran for Mayor in the 2014 election. She defeated incumbent Mayor Vincent C. Gray in the Democratic primary and won the general election against three Independent and two Minor Party candidates with 54.53% of the vote. She is the second woman to be elected Mayor, after Sharon Pratt Kelly.

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