1 of 3 | Members of the National Guard patrol as demonstrators hold signs in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14. President Donald Trump said he plans to patrol Washington with the Guard and D.C. Metro Police on Thursday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 21 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said he will go out on patrol with Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police on Thursday night amid his federal crackdown on crime in the district.
"I'm going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course. So we're going to do a job," Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starnes on his show. "The National Guard is great. They've done a fantastic job."
A senior White House official said that the details of the evening were still being worked out.
White House officials said Thursday that there had been more than 600 arrests since federal officers were deployed in the city on Aug. 7. Of those, 251 were arrests of immigrants in the country illegally, the White House said.
