Rounding Up Food Delivery Bikes in DC
Sarah Rumpf
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. 
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