What Trump’s crime crackdown in DC looks like in photos
Aug 21, 2025, 11:20 AM | Updated: Aug 26, 2025, 1:10 pm
South Carolina National Guardsmen patrol at the base of the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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(AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pedestrians walk their dogs past parked military vehicles. Commuters move past National Guards at metro stations. Baseball fans are watched by soldiers as they go to a game in Nationals Park.
For a second week, parts of the nation’s capital are looking like an occupied territory as President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement crackdown expands. Families who don’t like the federal takeover bang pots and pans outside their homes and others hold signs outside Union Station by guards, calling the declaration of a public safety emergency a “manufactured crisis.”
Read more through live updates, see more photos of patrols in Columbia Heights, and last week’s patrols in photos.
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This is a photo gallery curated by Associated Press photo editors.
