Overall, more than 5,800 troops, agents, and officers have taken to the streets of the nation’s capital in the past week.
Washington, D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowsercalled on President Trump to remove all additional federal law enforcement from the city on Friday as protests have become more peaceful in recent days — a request that could prompt a standoff as the president calls for “law and order” in the wake of unrest across the country.
About 1,300 active-duty troops were brought in to the nation’s capital early this week as protests turned violent, but those demonstrations have given way to peaceful protests over the last couple of days, with only a few reports of looting and chaos.
