DCAARPR Demands an Immediate End to the Federalized Police Force and National Guard Occupation
August 23, 2025
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DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR)
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DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (DCAARPR) Demands an Immediate End to the Federalized Police Force and National Guard Occupation
Who: The DC Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (DCAARPR), a member of the DC Against Trump Coalition (DCAT), which includes Freedom Road Socialist Organization DC (FRSO), Anakbayan DC, International League of People Struggles Baltimore-DMV (ILPS), and Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
What: Rally in defense of Black youth, immigrants, and the houseless.
When: Saturday, August 23 at 6:00 p.m. ET
Where: 14th and U St, Washington DC
Why: The Trump administration continues to escalate its racist, fascist police and military takeover of Washington DC as an unprecedented and anti-democratic deployment of the National Guard and federal police forces onto the streets of DC ends its second week.
Under the guise of “safety” and “law and order,” despite falling crime rates, Trump has given MPD, ATF, FBI, Park Police, ICE, the National Guard, and other police forces, free reign to harass and intimidate DC residents, particularly in Black, brown, immigrant, working class, and oppressed communities.
Several officers have concealed their identities, resembling racist vigilantes like the Ku Klux Klan that state and local government officials empowered to terrorize Black communities during 90 years of Jim Crow. With every covered face and every attempt to scare our people, they prove that their mission has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with terrorizing Black and brown communities.
“To these tactics the Trump administration has unleashed on our communities, we say no! We refuse to stand by while we are made to feel unwelcome and unsafe in our own city,” said KB, an organizer with the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression. “We stand strong to protect our communities facing state-sanctioned violence. This police state makes no one feel safe except for the occupiers, who intensify their control out of fear of our collective power!”
The DC Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Demands:
End the occupation and federalized police force!
DC Statehood now!
Community control of the police!
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