D.C. Police Chief Suddenly Resigns

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The city of Washington D.C. will be looking for a new police chief.

In a sudden announcement, Washington D.C.’s police chief has announced she is resigning.

The police chief’s resignation comes just weeks after two National Guard members were shot just blocks away from the White House last month.

Fox News reported more on the police chief’s sudden resignation:

Washington, D.C., police chief Pamela Smith is resigning her position after just two and a half years on the job, she announced Monday.

Smith has faced intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration, which took over the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this year and deployed federal law enforcement throughout the city.

“There comes a time when you just know it’s time,” Smith told Axios, which first reported her resignation.

“I am deeply humbled, grateful, and deeply appreciative of my time with the District of Columbia. Serving as Chief of Police has been the greatest honor of my career, and I want to extend my sincere thanks to Mayor Muriel Bowser for appointing me to this position and to the DC Council for their steadfast support throughout my tenure,” she said in a statement.

Bowser praised Smith’s work as police chief in her own statement on Monday, saying she weathered “attacks on our city’s autonomy.”

Smith has faced criticism from some D.C. residents who claim she has allowed MPD officers to assist federal agents in immigration enforcement, a claim she denies.

“We are not aligned with ICE. We do not, and have not since the crime emergency, worked alongside ICE,” Smith told Axios. “[Social media] videos lend one aspect of what you see. If they show up, they show up. They’re federal officers.”

Here was the D.C. mayor’s response to the sudden resignation:

Smith previously went viral after not knowing what “chain of command” meant:

The Guardian reported the resignation will take effect on December 31st:

Smith will reportedly resign on 31 December, according to Axios. The mayor’s statement did not provide a timeline for naming a successor, or indicate whether the leadership change might affect Washington’s broader public safety strategy.

In August, Trump declared a public safety emergency in an executive order and placed the MPD under federal control for 30 days, deploying more than 2,000 national guard troops to the capital. The federalization expired in September, though national guard troops remain deployed through February 2026, and the president threatened to reimpose control if the city does not cooperate with immigration enforcement operations.

Smith’s tenure began during one of Washington’s most violent periods in nearly two decades. In 2023, the city recorded 274 homicides – the highest number since 1997 – while carjackings hit 959, a record. The spike prompted congressional hearings and led city officials to expand police powers, including authorizing drug-free zones in high-crime areas and rewriting portions of the criminal code.

By early 2024, the city began seeing improvements. Overall crime dropped approximately 17% in the first 10 weeks of the year, a decline Smith attributed to new legislation and targeted deployments. The justice department reported in January 2025 that violent crime in DC had fallen 35% from 2023, reaching its lowest level in over 30 years.

However, the justice department and House Republicans are investigating allegations from a whistleblower that MPD supervisors manipulated crime statistics. One police commander was placed on leave in May amid the investigation, and Smith told Axios she “would never say to anyone to alter stats” but declined to say whether other personnel were on leave in connection with the inquiry.

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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