The E. Barrett Prettyman US courthouse in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2024. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/File

Residents of the nation’s capital voiced their increased opposition and distrust of federal officers — especially around the administration’s deportation efforts — during jury selection Tuesday in the trial of an anti-ICE protester accused of assaulting an officer.

For about three hours, attorneys questioned potential jurors about their ability to be impartial in the trial of Sydney Reid, who was arrested in July while she filmed the arrest of a non-citizen. Nearly a dozen people in the federal jury pool said they couldn’t be impartial in the case because of their feelings.

“I have very bad views of them,” one woman told the judge presiding over the case of immigration offi

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