WASHINGTON Residents of Swann Street NW in the nations capital opened their homes to protesters who were trapped by law enforcement officers during a demonstration against police violence on Monday.

Not long after President Donald Trump vowed to crack down on riots and had federal law enforcement officials fire tear gas at peaceful crowds so he could hold a Bible during a photo op in front of a church , police kettled demonstrators on a D.C. street a few blocks south of 14th and U Street NW. This area was the center of the 1968 riots following the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.