D.C. Councilman: City Isn’t Dangerous, Federal Officers ‘Posing Real Risk to Washingtonians’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” D.C. City Councilman Zachary Parker (D) criticized “the characterization that D.C. is some slum and dangerous.” And stated that “we are seeing a surge of federal officers that are harassing individuals in all quadrants of our city, that are posing real risk to Washingtonians.”

Co-host Wolf Blitzer asked, “What’s your reaction to what’s been going on in our city over these past several days?”

Parker answered, “I would say it’s outrageous. Residents are demanding that we push back on what’s happening in this city, as well as the characterization that D.C. is some slum and dangerous.”…

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