White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlights success of President Trump’s federal takeover of DC during press briefing – August 19, 2025 (Photo by TGP/Jordan Conradson)White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will deliver a press briefing this afternoon as the Trump Administration begins ICE operations in the city of Chicago amid threats from President Trump to send federal law enforcement to other major cities. This also comes after another weekend of violence in Chicago, where at least seven were killed and twelve injured. 58 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, leaving eight dead. The weekend before, at least six people were killed and 27 were injured, with victims as young as five years old, in shootings.President Trump has said repeatedly that he plans to send law enforcement operations into Chicago. Over the weekend, hundreds of DHS and ICE agents were stationed to begin immigration enforcement operations.Trump has also signaled plans to go after New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baltimore, Maryland, New York, and San Francisco, California, after he practically ended crime in Washington, DC.Today’s briefing comes after surveillance footage from the horrific light rail stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a black career criminal in Charlotte, North Carolina, went viral, prompting outrage against Democrats’ cashless bail and catch and release policies.34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. had a long criminal rap sheet, with arrests dating back to 2007. He was later arrested at least six more times on charges, including felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats, most of which were dropped for him to return to the streets and murder the young woman.Months before he senslessly murdered her, Federal Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes had most recently released Brown, after he was arrested on January 19, The Gateway Pundit reported.President Trump responded to the incident on Monday, calling for an end to cashless bail and reiterating his plan to “go into” Chicago.“We’re going to get to the end of it,” the President said of the lawlessness in America. “You know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions. And the actions that we take are nothing.”(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Murder of Woman on Charlotte, North Carolina Subway – “We’re Going to Get to The End of it… When You Have Horrible Killings, You Have to Take Horrible Actions”/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i