Protests unfolded at Union Station over federal takeover of DC police

The Federal Police acquisition in Washington, DC, sparked protests near Al -Ittihad station on Thursday night, where the demonstrators called the police and the National Guard officers “Nazi”.

“O companions, safe here? O secure comrades? Are you comrades killed?” One of the demonstrators heard asking the sarcasm of the officers. Others said they are “betraying” the country and “intimidating society.”

One of them said, accusing the Nazi officers, “You will never know a moment of peace.”

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“All of them are the reason that our country descends,” one of the protesters shouted at the officers during the traffic station.

President Donald Trump announced the move on Monday, and the National Guard and a variety of federal agencies, including ICE and FBI, are patrolling all over the city. Some arrests have already been made, including dozens of illegal immigrants.

Prosecutor Bam Bondi initially ordered that the Director of the Drug Control Department Terry Cole was responsible for the Capital Police Department as a “Emergency Police Commissioner”, although this directive was later changed to ensure Cole’s work with Mayor Morel Boser. Bondi also requested more compliance between the local police and federal immigration authorities.

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The FBI and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) conduct a traffic station near the American Capitol building in Washington, DC. On August 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Democrats criticized this acquisition as a transgression, as congress members request a decision to end the “crime emergency” announced by the Trump administration.

“President Trump’s dates against the capital are among the most terrible attacks on the capital’s rule on the land of the capital for decades. The residents of the capital are the Americans, who deserve the same self -rule granted to the population of the states,” Representative Elianor Holmes Norton, who represents the capital as a delegate, said in a statement.

She added: “The local police force, which the residents of the capital, paid, should not be subject to federalism, a measure that will not be possible for any other police station in the country. There is no emergency in the capital that did not create itself, nor does the capital police use for federal purposes, as required by law.”

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Actor Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat from the County of Colombia, during a sub -committee for transportation and infrastructure in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Grame Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the White House criticized the decision, as the Trump administration said that the intention is to decrease the crime of crime in the capital.

“But instead of supporting what should be a procedure from the two parties to make the capital safe again, Democrats are buried their heads in the sand, and they deny that there is a problem, and the flame of the dangerous criminals who strive the capital’s societies,” White House spokeswoman Abigel Jackson told Fox News Digital.

“The residents of the capital know that the reality on the ground – the crime was out of control, and the actions of President Trump make the city safer. The left’s refusal to support popular issues on a large scale with the American public – such as stopping violent crime – is the reason that their approval rankings are at its lowest historical levels and will continue to go into.”

The city sues the work, on the pretext that it impedes the ability of the boycott to autonomy.

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“We are sacrificed to prevent the federal government to seize the capital police. By illegally declaring, the administration offends its temporary and limited authority under the law. This is the most threats that the ruling faced at the capital’s house, and we are fighting to stop it,” the Public Prosecutor in the capital, Brian Shawwal, was published on X on Friday.

He added: “The authority of the federal government on the capital is not absolute, and it should not be practiced in this way. Article 740 of the President’s Home Base Law allows to request MPD services. But it can not only be done temporarily, for private emergencies, and for only federal purposes.”

Alex Nitzberg of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.