"I'm not letting any of these kids out of my sight," one Swann Street resident told a Washington Post reporter.
Police are gathered outside homes waiting for those sheltering inside to leave, accordin to local media.
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Residents of a Washington, DC, street are sheltering dozens of protesters penned in by advancing police forces.
City mayor Muriel Bowser imposed a curfew from 7 p.m. Monday to early Tuesday morning, but crowds of protesters ignored the limits, and one throng was confronted by police on Swann Street.
Swann Street is located in the northwest quadrant of the capital, and is near the popular U Street corridor.
A number of protesters were trapped, cuffed, and taken away, according to testimony and images posted to social media by journalists at the scene.
One protester told WUSA9 that 40 people have been sheltering in a single home on Swann Street since 10 p.m.
Another protester, who was not named, told HuffPost that as police closed in "people just start knocking on doors."
"We were fortunate enough to recognize some people, and we didn't even know they lived on this block, and we were able to stay ... Thank God, it was honestly fate."
Protests that started seven days ago in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck, have spread to dozens of cities across the US and other countries. The National Guard has been deployed to many states.
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On Monday night President Donald Trump threatened to send in the military to quell protests.
"If a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," he said.
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