WTOP/Jimmy Alexander

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Protesters gathered in Northwest D.C. on Friday afternoon in response to President Donald Trump’s latest move to ramp up his federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement.

Demonstrators pushed back on the Trump administration’s order that named a federal official as the new emergency head of D.C. police.

They chanted, sang and marched outside D.C. police headquarters and the nearby courthouse. The rally attracted a wide variety of people, including kids and people being pushed in wheelchairs.

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