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DC Residents Are Saying The Same Thing About This Clip Of DEA Officers Patrolling The National Mall
On Monday, Donald Trump announced he would be taking over the Washington DC police department and deploying National Guard troops there.
One day before that, on Sunday, DC news anchor Lorenzo Hall took this video of DEA police officers patrolling the National Mall:
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There were a bunch of *viral* responses to the clip.
DC political analyst and journalist Tom Sherwood called it "Basically [a] meaningless stroll."
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@johnmconnollyjr said, "I've lived in DC for 10 years. The only crime I've ever seen on the National Mall was when a mob ransacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 at the direction of the man who lost the 2020 presidential election."
And Aaron Fritschner the Deputy Chief of Staff for Virginia Rep. Don Beyer, pointed out, "The Metropolitan Police Department tracks and publishes the location of all crimes committed in the DC; the map grid section where this video was shot on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial has recorded zero (0) crimes so far in 2025:
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The responses get pretty funny from there:
One person said, "6 guys in full uniform on a stretch of the mall where the biggest threat is the mama ducks defending their ducklings from my dog."
Another person joked, "You know what screams 'high crime area'? White women jogging."
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And this person said, "This is cosplay. this is drag. this is banned from entering Florida public schools."
Basically, everyone is like: "If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is."
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