President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
What Trump’s crime crackdown in DC looks like in photos
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.”
This is a photo gallery curated by Associated Press photo editors.
President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Armed officers from several federal agencies including U.S. Marshals, FBI, HSI, and Park Police, leave an apartment complex after arresting a man from within the apartment complex, Tuesday, August 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)South Carolina National Guardsmen patrol at the base of the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Members of the District Of Columbia National Guard patrol in front of Nationals Park, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Nadine Seiler, right, talks, near National Guard solders from South Carolina, outside Union Station in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)A South Carolina National Guardsman patrols outside the Foggy Bottom-GWU metro station, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Officers from various federal agencies including Homeland Security Investigations, FBI, Department of Homeland Security from the Boston Field Office, and U.S. Park Police prepare for patrols at the U.S. Park Police Rock Creek Station, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Women pose for a photo with members of the District of Columbia National Guard outside Nationals Park on game day in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Officers from several federal agencies including U.S. Marshals, FBI, and Park Police, leave an apartment complex after arresting a man from within the apartment complex, Tuesday, August 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Hannah Hessel, Izzy, Joan and Andrew Ratner bang pots and pans on their porch in protest of President Donald Trump’s use of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)A man, second from right, is stopped and ticketed for a fare violation by the Washington Metro Transportation Police Special Response Team, near Nationals Park on game day in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)A girl walks by as National Guardsmen patrol along the National Mall, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)People talk with a member of the District of Columbia National Guard as they patrol the area outside Nationals Park in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)A man walks a dog as District of Columbia National Guardsmen patrol the neighborhood near Nationals Park in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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