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ARTICLE VIEW:
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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