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Protesters call for end of federal law enforcement takeover of DC | |
By Veronica Stracqualursi, Kristin Chapman, CNN | |
Updated: | |
7:29 PM EDT, Sat September 6, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Scores of protesters marched in Washington, DC, on Saturday against | |
President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s police | |
department and troops to the capital. | |
Holding signs that read “protect DC home rule” and “stop the | |
Trump takeover,” participants in the “We Are All DC” march | |
journeyed from Meridian Hill Park to Freedom Plaza near the White House | |
to protest what they see as Trump’s authoritarian push to control the | |
district. | |
“To see the destruction of the federal workforce and the importation | |
of the National Guard to try to keep peace where crime is at the lowest | |
it’s been in 30 years. It’s just, it moved me to protest,” David | |
Reinke, a former government contractor who lives in neighboring | |
Maryland, told CNN. | |
Last month, Trump declared a crime emergency and ordered the federal | |
government to take control of DC’s police department, surged federal | |
law enforcement into the district and deployed National Guard troops | |
– a broad effort that has drawn the ire of many city residents. | |
DC’s violent crime rate has plummeted in the last decades and reached | |
its lowest since 1966 in 2024, . | |
Of the National Guard troops in DC, Howard University student Stephanie | |
Collins-Stewart told CNN, “I honestly feel like it’s a tactic, like | |
they’re trying to intimidate us. But I’ve been going here for | |
school for the past few years and I know what DC is like. It’s pretty | |
calm for the most part.” | |
Another protester, Kristine Sieloff, a public school teacher from | |
Baltimore, told CNN she’s concerned Trump will soon send the National | |
Guard to her city — which he has threatened — arguing that it’s | |
just “a show of force that’s meant to intimidate people.” | |
Marchers on Saturday also held anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement | |
signs, and some participants CNN spoke to expressed disapproval of the | |
Trump administration’s ICE raids, arguing that it’s pulling | |
families apart. | |
“There’s got to be a more humane and more diplomatic way to deal | |
with people who are undocumented, and the way they’re doing it is | |
very inhumane,” Tammi Price, a retired teacher, told CNN. | |
“There’s so much more that could be done with the millions and | |
millions of dollars that taxpayers are paying for occupation, the | |
occupation of ICE and the National Guard,” she argued. “Those are | |
our tax dollars.” | |
The mission is a day, experts estimated to CNN. | |
CNN’s Jenna Monnin contributed to this report. | |
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