After President Donald Trump said homeless people in D.C. must be moved far from the city, crews tore down an encampment near the Kennedy Center on Thursday morning and crammed people’s belongings into a garbage truck.

A homeless senior citizen and members of a small group of protesters quoted the Bible as they urged the federal government and D.C. to protect homeless people.

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“I look at it as anti-Christian. I remember the passage of, ‘As you have done to the least of these, you have done unto me.’ The idea that he’s targeting us and persecuting us feels wrong to me,” said David, a 67-year-old who said he had stayed at an encampment in the Foggy Bottom area for over six months. He quoted Matthew 25:40.

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