Fmr. ABC Anchor Says Checkpoints Discourage Parents to Send Children to School, Go on Family Visits

PHILLIP: “‘Sir.’ That‘s the tell. Terry, that‘s the tell. Don‘t know who this guy is, but apparently this is where President Trump has his understanding of what‘s been going on in D.C.. But, Terry, tonight, Washingtonians hit the streets as well. There‘s a juxtaposition between what Trump is saying and what D.C. residents are saying with their protests, and also saying in the polls that we‘ve seen this week. Almost 80% do not approve of what Trump is doing here.”
MORAN: “They don‘t. They recognize a problem in parts of the city. I‘ve been traveling around the city over the past few days for a piece I‘m doing. I was in Anacostia, east of the river, Congress Heights, where the most crime happens. They haven‘t seen a single federal officer. They call it a kabuki theater. They‘re like, ‘This is where most of the murders happen.’ It‘s a show. Other places, there are checkpoints going on, there have been arrests made. There have been outstanding warrants that were executed on people and people are happy about that. But what they don‘t like is the loss of control and the militarization, the sense that the checkpoints are discouraging parents from sending their kids to school, they‘re discouraging people from having families visit, especially if they‘re black and brown.”
PHILLIP: “Yeah. I‘m going to play a clip from one of the people that you spoke to, Andrea Thomas. She talked about exactly that. She‘s got family members in Virginia that she‘s worried about bringing them into Washington in this particular moment. Listen.”