Fortress Washington Braces for Inauguration With Fences, Troops
- More than 25,000 security personnel deploying across city
- Wray warns of potential violence at U.S. Capitol, statehouses
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The week before Joe Biden’s inauguration, downtown Washington looks like a city preparing for war.
A huge swath of the city core is blocked off, patrolled by uniformed National Guard forces as part of a buildup not seen since the Civil War. And the U.S. capital is getting even more fortified as federal, state and local officials brace for a worst-case scenario of violence tied to the Jan. 20 inauguration.