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\n Demonstrators gathered outside Washington, DC\u2019s, police headquarters on Friday to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s federal takeover of the city\u2019s law enforcement.\n <\/p>\n
\n One of the protesters \u2013 29-year-old Katie Garcia \u2013 has lived in Washington, DC, since last year, and says she now feels unsafe leaving her house.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m in DC Ward 2, and I\u2019ve lived here for about a year, and it\u2019s wild, because I came here for work, and I was really excited about the energy that this city brought. And I\u2019ve always wanted to live here,\u201d Garcia said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWith Trump\u2019s takeover, I felt what\u2019s going on in DC is terrifying,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n
\n Marta Ames, a 74-year-old DC resident who has been in the city since the 2000s, says she doesn\u2019t participate in protests, but felt compelled to come to the rally today.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this. I was stunned. I mean, I\u2019m someone who believes in my First Amendment right, and we know he does not believe people should protest against anything he does,\u201d adding that she\u2019s \u201cscared to death.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m curious what the federal troops \u2026 what they think and feel, because this is a waste of their time.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN observed dozens of protesters gathered outside the Metropolitan Police Department as part of the rally.\n <\/p>\n
\n Another protester, Michael Segal, 64, lives on Capitol Hill, and says he\u2019s seen people get stopped and asked for documentation to show they are US residents.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe fact that I\u2019m walking down the street, and I can get stopped for my papers at any time \u2026 it\u2019s just mind boggling to me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demonstrators gathered outside Washington, DC\u2019s, police headquarters on Friday to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s federal takeover of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-72735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}