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A National Guard subordinate whose subject transport conveyance collided with a car this week was fixed a postulation summons for moving a reddish airy successful Washington, D.C. — arsenic Guard forces deploy to the streets of the superior amid President Trump's contentious anti-crime push.
The collision took spot aboriginal Wednesday morning, arsenic a convoy of 5 National Guard vehicles drove done D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood. One of the trucks — a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle — struck a civilian car, the D.C. Guard said successful a statement.
The 5 Guard vehicles and a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department cruiser stopped to assistance the driver, who was transported via exigency aesculapian services, according to the Guard.
The operator sustained insignificant injuries, but the D.C. Fire Department utilized extrication tools to region the operator from the car, section spokesperson Vito Maggiolo told CBS News.
The operator of the Guard conveyance was aboriginal ticketed for moving a reddish airy during the incident, the military's D.C. Joint Task Force said Thursday.
Red airy tickets cost $150 successful D.C.
"Our precedence is ensuring the well-being of each involved. We are grateful for the effect of D.C. constabulary and EMS. Safety is our apical priority. We volition instrumentality enactment based connected the investigation. This benignant of conveyance is authorized, and information protocols are successful place," Army Col. Larry Doane, commandant of the associated task unit for D.C., said successful a statement.
National Guard unit person been deployed successful the superior metropolis since last week, erstwhile Mr. Trump ordered the D.C. Guard — which is controlled by the president — to ace down connected what helium called an "epidemic of crime." Federal agents person besides patrolled the city, and Mr. Trump has asserted power implicit the section Metropolitan Police Department.
Just nether 2,000 Guard unit were activated successful the superior arsenic of Wednesday, including members of the D.C. National Guard arsenic good arsenic forces from six GOP-led states. The Guard members "may beryllium armed, accordant with their training, depending connected the mission, operating nether civilian instrumentality enforcement," the Joint Task Force said successful a statement.
Guard forces and dense subject vehicles person been spotted passim the city, including astatine Union Station and adjacent the Washington Monument.
The moves person drawn pushback from section officials who reason the surge is unnecessary. Violent transgression successful D.C. has been declining for the past year-and-a-half aft spiking successful 2023, according to section constabulary information — contempt Mr. Trump's assertion that transgression is connected the upswing.
Mary Walsh contributed to this report.
Joe Walsh is simply a elder exertion for integer authorities astatine CBS News. Joe antecedently covered breaking quality for Forbes and section quality successful Boston.
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