Vice President J.D. Vance and other Trump administration officials on Wednesday met with National Guard troops at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station, which Vance claimed was because of the station’s high crime rate.
President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the district last week, and deployed 800 D.C. National Guard troops to the capital to help patrol the city and reduce its crime rate. Although D.C. crime has decreased in recent years, at least statistically, the city still has one of the highest crime rates in the country.
Vance told reporters at a Shake Shack in Union Station that he witnessed “violent vagrants” screaming at his children when they visited the station a couple of years ago, but that he believed it should be a place where families can go to restaurants or shopping.
“We have changed so much in nine days, and I thought it important to highlight how great of a space this could be, how easy it could be to actually enjoy something like Union Station if you just had politicians who stopped prioritizing violent criminals over public citizens who deserve public safety in their own communities,” Vance said, per CNN.
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