Armed National Guard troops were seen on the boardwalk of The Wharf in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. A military official told CBS News earlier in the day that some members of the Guard, likely fewer than 50,

US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force carrying out the mission told CNN.

National Guard troops on duty in President Trump’s D.C. crackdown began carrying weapons Sunday evening, according to a spokesman for the National Guard task force. Several members of the Guard from South Carolina were seen late Sunday outside Washington’s Union Station with firearms holstered to their hips.