“Get Off Our Streets”: DC Residents Protest Federal Agents Running Checkpoint

More than 100 protesters gathered late Wednesday at a checkpoint set up by a combination of local and federal officers on a popular street in Washington, D.C., where U.S. President Donald Trump has taken over the police force and deployed around 800 National Guard members as part of what he hopes will be a long-term occupation of the country’s capital — and potentially other major cities.

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