Black D.C. Security Officer Says Trump Protesters Surrounded, Threatened, Grabbed, and Spat On Her Before She Punched One of Them In Self-Defense It’s been more than two weeks since an ill-mannered Trump supporter caught hands at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. A thudding dose of corrective consequence struck one the former president’s loyalists squarely in the face during a Jan. 5 protest. It came courtesy of Ashanti Smith, 28, a licensed unarmed special police officer who works near the White House. Smith, who is Black, was seen on camera landing a flush punch that left Therese Duke’s face leaking. She fired on Duke after the white Trump lover tried to snatch Smith’s cellphone out of her hand.