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At least take down the razor wire: D.C. residents, lawmakers chafe at Capitol fence

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February 28, 2021 at 1:35 p.m. EST
A pedestrian on Thursday walks by fencing that surrounds the U.S. Capitol. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

It was a modest plea from D.C. residents to the Capitol Police during a virtual town hall: If they couldn’t take down the seven-foot fence surrounding the Capitol, could they at least remove the razor wire?

“It could be the beginning of normalcy,” Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s nonvoting delegate in Congress, suggested to Assistant Police Chief Chad Thomas at the Feb. 11 meeting.