DC's Union Station sees Nationwide Guard presence as a part of Trump’s crime crackdown

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As National Guard troops ramped up their presence within the nation's capital on Thursday, about seven Nationwide Guard Humvees and different navy automobiles, and round 25 to 30 troops, stood guard outdoors D.C.'s Union Station.

President Donald Trump's transfer to federalize components of the District of Columbia's police pressure started earlier within the week, however troops from the Nationwide Guard scaled up their presence Thursday, with a number of stationed across the Nationwide Mall, at metro stations, at Union Station, close to a U.S. Park constructing in Anacostia, D.C., and different locations across the nation's capital.

As of Thursday, 800 Nationwide Guard members have been mobilized to Washington, D.C., in accordance with the Protection Division. In accordance with Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson, the troops are unarmed and are supporting different federal legislation enforcement companies which have been known as as much as D.C. to quell the violence there.

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"The scope of assist could also be adjusted primarily based on the wants of our companions," Wilson mentioned. "This is able to be similar to the [Los Angeles] mission, the place we are able to briefly detain somebody after which flip them over to the legislation enforcement."

At Union Station particularly, Fox Information Digital counted round 25 to 30 Nationwide Guard personnel, all navy police, 4 Humvees and three MATVs early Thursday night.

Fox Information Digital solely noticed riot batons carried by the troops.

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The Nationwide Guard ramped up its presence within the nation's capital this week, together with dozens who stood guard outdoors DC's Union Station. (FOX NEWS DIGITAL)

The opposite federal legislation enforcement companies that the Nationwide Guard troops are supporting embody the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Customs and Border Safety (CBP), Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) and Secret Service.

Operations aimed toward lowering crime within the nation's capital had been initially targeted on evening patrols, however on Thursday they're going to start patrolling 24/7.

The elevated law enforcement presence in D.C. has led to protesters taking the streets, together with a handful seen at Union Station Thursday.

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On Wednesday evening, native media reports indicated round 100 protesters in a single Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the place police had arrange a car checkpoint, got here out to problem the elevated police presence.