D.C. Residents Protest Military Presence

“Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital would ramp up and federal officers would be on the streets around the clock,” the AP reports.

“After law enforcement set up a vehicle checkpoint along the busy 14th Street Northwest corridor, hecklers shouted, ‘Go home, fascists’ and ‘Get off our streets.’ Some protesters stood at the intersection before the checkpoint and urged drivers to turn away from it.”

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On Truth Social, President Trump framed his efforts as part of a crusade to “liberate this City, scrape away the filth, and make it safe, clean, habitable and beautiful once more!”