WASHINGTON (AP) – Pedestrians walk their dogs past parked military vehicles. Commuters pass the national security guard at the metro station. Baseball fans are seen by soldiers when they go to games at Nationals Park.
In the second week, part of the country’s capital appears to be the territory occupied as president Donald Trump’s Law enforcement crackdowns are expanding. Families who don’t like federal takeovers prefer pots and pots outside the home, while others keep signs by security guards outside Union Station, calling the declaration of a public safety emergency “a manufactured crisis.”
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Armed officers from several federal agencies, including the former US S, FBI, HSI and Park Police, left the apartment on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, after arresting a man from inside an apartment in the Petworth area of northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Jaclyn Martin)
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, he was a member of the Columbia District Guard Patrol, in front of Nationals Park in Washington’s Navy Yards district. (AP Photo/Julia Demarie Nikinson)
Nadine Seiler, Right, Lecture, Soldering of the National Guard in South Carolina, Outside Union Station, Washington, Wednesday, August 20, 2025 (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
South Carolina security patrol outside Foggy Bottom GWU Metro Station on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demarie Nikinson)
Officers from various federal agencies, including the Homeland Security Investigation, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security at the Boston Field Office, and the U.S. Park Police, are preparing for a patrol at U.S. Park Police Station in Washington on Thursday, August 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jaclyn Martin)
The woman will take photos with members of the Columbia District National Guard outside Nationals Park on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, on the day of the Washington game (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Officers from several federal agencies, including the former US S, FBI and Parks Police, left the apartment on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 after arresting a man from inside an apartment in the Petworth area of northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Jaclyn Martin)
Hannah Hessel, Izzy, Joan and Andrew Ratner slap pouches and slap pots in Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in Washington in protest of the use of federal law enforcement and National Guard forces in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demarie Nikinson)
The second man from the right will be suspended and receive a ticket on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 due to a fare violation by the Washington Metro Traffic Police Special Response Team near Nationals Park in Washington.
The girl will walk on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in Washington as a patrol for national security guards along the National Mall. (AP Photo/Julia Demarie Nikinson)
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, I will be talking to members of the District of Columbia National Guard as I patrol areas outside of Washington’s national parks (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025, he will walk his dog as a guard in the Columbia area patrolling nearby areas near Washington’s national parks.
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