(14 Aug 2025)
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Washington – 14 August 2025
1. DC National Guard members outside Union Station
2. DC National Guard members standing by vehicle
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole, D.C. Resident:
“I am the daughter of two Marines. I was born on October 23, 1983, which was a terrorist attack on Marines in Lebanon. My parents would never do this. It hurts me to my core that our president is making our service people, sorry I’m so emotional. This is disgraceful. I come here every day, and I never feel unsafe. And putting women of color? Making these people have these as their work orders? It’s disgusting. And for what? For what?"
4. DC National Guard members walking around Union Station
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan Zito, D.C. Resident:
“All this administration does is lie and lie and lie. Crime is down. This is a power grab.”
6. DC National Guard members near vehicles
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Bernstein, D.C. Resident:
“The next block over, the 1400 block of T Street, has been the site of several shootings in recent years."
8. Ambulance and DC police cars parked along street
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Bernstein, D.C. Resident:
"But this sort of display is not designed to, you know, stop gun violence. It’s not designed to stop the drug trade. It’s designed to intimidate people.”
10. Wide of homeless encampment being dismantled
11. Tent being rolled
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beatty, homeless:
"I look at it as anti-Christian. I remember the passage of, ‘as you have done unto the least of these, you have been unto me.’ And the idea that he’s targeting us and persecuting us, feels wrong to me."
13. Wide of crane removing homeless encampment tents
STORYLINE:
The District of Columbia was out in front of Union Station on Thursday as an assistance to law enforcement.
Homeless encampments were cleared across town near the National Mall.
And DC residents are faced with the new reality of heightened law enforcement in their daily lives.
David Beatty, who was living in a tent not far from the National Mall, says the actions of the administration to crackdown on homelessness is “anti-Christian.”
“I remember the passage of, ‘as you have done unto the least of these, you have been unto me.’ And the idea that he’s targeting us and persecuting us, feels wrong to me,” Beatty said.
A woman named Nicole, who is the daughter of two Marines, was emotional outside of Union Station as National Guard members patrolled the area.
“It hurts me to my core that our president is making our service people, sorry I’m so emotional. This is disgraceful,” Nicole said.
Marc Bernstein, another DC resident, says that he has witnessed crime in his neighborhood and was concerned about it. However, he questioned the way it was being handled by the administration.
“This sort of display is not designed to, you know, stop gun violence. It’s not designed to stop the drug trade. It’s designed to intimidate people,” Bernstein said.
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