Video of armed federal officers meandering around Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night is once again refuting President Donald Trump’s lie that the nation’s capital is facing a surge of violent crime.

The viral video, posted online by Freedom News TV, shows armed agents of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency, dressed in uniform, walking around the Georgetown area of the city. They walk down mostly empty streets and sidewalks, doing nothing. They walk past quiet patrons eating at a sidewalk cafe. Onlookers gawk at them in surprise.

“Not much going on here, so maybe they’re practicing,” a civilian tells the camera crew.

The video adds to growing evidence that Trump’s decision to send federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Washington, where crime has been declining and hit a 30-ye

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