{"id":6914,"date":"2025-09-10T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/washington-residents-protest-against-trumps-troop-deployment-to-city\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:31:25","slug":"washington-residents-protest-against-trumps-troop-deployment-to-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/washington-residents-protest-against-trumps-troop-deployment-to-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington residents protest against Trump&#8217;s troop deployment to city"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Several thousand protesters marched in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that U.S. President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;end the deployment of&nbsp;National Guard troops&nbsp;patrolling the capital city&rsquo;s streets.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump vowing crackdowns in other Democratic-led cities as well, he appeared to threaten Chicago with migrant deportations in a social media post with an image that parodied the 1979 Vietnam war movie &lsquo;Apocalypse Now.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2025-09-07\/Washington-residents-protest-against-Trump-s-troop-deployment-to-city-1Gt44DKCNH2\/img\/ac9196020c3c4f7a836fafe7971aa8fd\/ac9196020c3c4f7a836fafe7971aa8fd.png\" alt=\"Protesters gathered in the nation\" s capital today to raise their voices against the federal government efforts increase control over city police department in washington d.c. september><\/p>\n<p>Protesters at the &ldquo;We Are All D.C.&rdquo; march, including undocumented immigrants and supporters of Palestinian statehood, chanted slogans denouncing Trump and carried posters, some of which read, &ldquo;Trump must go now,&rdquo; &ldquo;Free DC&rdquo; and &ldquo;Resist Tyranny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m here to protest the occupation of D.C.,&rdquo; said Alex Laufer. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re opposing the authoritarian regime and we need to get the federal police and the National Guard off our streets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Claiming that crime was&nbsp;blighting the city, Trump deployed the troops last month to &ldquo;re-establish law, order, and public safety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Trump also placed the capital district&rsquo;s Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and sent federal law enforcement personnel, including members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to police the city&rsquo;s streets, moves critics have decried as federal overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Tuesday that he would also deploy National Guard troops to fight crime&nbsp;in Chicago, an extraordinary effort to militarize the country&rsquo;s third-largest city that was likely to trigger a legal battle with local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said after Trump spoke that he had learned from reporters that the administration has &ldquo;gathered ICE agents and military.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 troops, including six Republican-led states, are patrolling the city. It is unclear when their mission will end, though the army this week extended orders for the D.C. National Guard through November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block the troop deployment, arguing that it was unconstitutional and violated multiple federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was playing golf at his course outside Washington and was not at the White House when protesters marched past on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>But he appeared to step up pressure on Chicago in a post on his Truth Social platform that said, &ldquo;I love the smell of deportations in the morning,&rdquo; parodying a line from the 1979 movie.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Chicago about to find out why it&rsquo;s called the Department of WAR,&rdquo; the president wrote, referring to his&nbsp;new order&nbsp;to rename the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Washington residents protest against Trump&rsquo;s troop deployment to city<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand protesters marched in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that U.S. President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;end the deployment of&nbsp;National Guard troops&nbsp;patrolling the capital city&rsquo;s streets. With Trump vowing crackdowns in other Democratic-led cities as well, he appeared to threaten Chicago with migrant deportations in a social media post with an image that parodied the 1979 Vietnam&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/washington-residents-protest-against-trumps-troop-deployment-to-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Washington residents protest against Trump&#8217;s troop deployment to city&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}