Local and national Democratic politicians condemned President Trump's deployment of National Guardsmen to patrol Washington, D.C., and his attempted takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. Many D.C. residents opposed the actions and protested at Union Station where Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller met with National Guard members. Protesters heckled the delegation as they left, and video shows heavy jeering. Vance claimed a 35 percent reduction in violent crime and a 50 percent drop in robberies over nine days, though the source of those statistics is unclear. Miller characterized recent demonstrators as outsiders and called them "elderly white hippies," while noting the city's majority Black population.
We don't have to live like this. We don't have to allow our cities to be taken over by violence and by disorder and by chaos. You can actually do stuff. You can actually bring law and order to communities. You just gotta have the political willpower to do so,
All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies? They're not part of this city and never have been," Miller said. "And by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C. are Black. This is not a city that
Vance and Hegseth leaving Union Station, lots of boos pic.twitter.com/oRT9wOca8c- Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) August 20, 2025
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