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Federal agents have set up a checkpoint in a Washington D.C. neighborhood, images on social media suggest, amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in the capital.
Personnel in Homeland Security Investigations vests were seen at the site in the U Street Corridor. Uniformed Metropolitan Police Department officers were also in attendance, NBC News reported.
Trump announced on Monday that he was temporarily placing the police department in Washington D.C. under federal control and deploying 800 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital to “establish law, order and public safety.”
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