National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., stepped in to break up a fistfight near a public park, underscoring the new security presence that has coincided with a sharp drop in violent crime in the nation’s capital, the Washington Examiner reported.

Pedro Rodriguez, writing in the Examiner, recounted seeing the Guard intervene during a scuffle in the busy Eastern Market area. One of the fighters fled on a bicycle as Guardsmen de-escalated the situation, preventing it from endangering families and bystanders nearby.

“Without the Guard, that altercation could have spiraled out of control,” Rodriguez wrote.

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