(CNN) Attorney General William Barr jabbed back at Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser in a letter on Tuesday, saying federal law enforcement and National Guard troops were necessary in the city because the unrest had hit unprecedented and dangerous levels in the nation's capital. "The television footage of these events — viewed by people across the Nation and around the world — conveyed the impression that the United States was on the brink of losing control of its capital city," Barr wrote of the protests in DC that followed the police killing of George Floyd late last month in Minneapolis. CNN has reached out to Bowser's office for comment on Barr's letter. Bowser's chief of staff, John Falcicchio, slammed the letter as "revisionist" in a tweet later Tuesday, asserting that it "fails to mention examples of incitement" by the Trump administration and that "deployment of federal assets was not coordinated with nor requested by DC."

Source: CNN June 10, 2020 00:57 UTC