Feds Bashed for ‘Rounding Up Food Delivery Bikes’ in DC: ‘Terrible Use of My Tax Dollars’
Photo via Department of Homeland Security.
A photo posted by an editor at Reason that appeared to show officers with multiple federal agencies loading mopeds into a truck sparked backlash Monday as a waste of tax dollars and distraction from higher priority issues in Washington, D.C.
Natalię Dowzicky, Reason’s managing editor of video and podcasts, shared a photo Monday afternoon that she identified as happening “in Dupont Circle, right outside of the @reason office.”
In the photo, several law enforcement officers can be seen, including one with a D.C. Metropolitan Police uniform and several with “HSI,” or Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In the back of a truck that appeared to have a government logo on the door, multiple mopeds or motorized bikes could be seen.
Dowzicky posted several follow-up tweets noting that the timing of the bike roundup was “even more ridiculous given the security that should be at the White House for world leaders,” happening “[l]iterally while European leaders were 6 blocks away and probably needed security of some sort,” referring to Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Several others, including some of Dowzicky’s colleagues at Reason, posted reactions to the photo, with some including additional criticism of Trump deploying federal agents in D.C. A selection of tweets is below.
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