‘Get Off Our Streets': Federal Agents Set up Checkpoint in DC, Drawing Protesters

Bystanders jeer law enforcement at 14th Street checkpoint

Dozens of people jeered local and federal law enforcement officers at a checkpoint on 14th and W Streets, N.W., on Wednesday. The Washington Post reported agents with Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations were at the checkpoint that they set up at around 8 p.m. The Post reported the agents detained at least two people. “At least two people were detained — one man speaki…

MPD joins ICE and other federal agencies at DC checkpoint, crowd protests

A crowd assembled on Wednesday night to protest as officers from MPD, along with Homeland Security and ICE agents, set up a checkpoint on 14th Street NW.

‘Get off our streets': Federal agents set up checkpoint in DC, drawing protesters

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital would ramp up and federal officers would be on the streets around the clock. After law enforcement set up a vehicle checkpoint Wednesday along the busy 14th Street Northwest corridor, hecklers shouted, “Go home, fascists” and “Get off our streets.” Some protesters…

Fury against Fed Police Builds as Checkpoint Goes Up across from the Tatte and High End Retailer Backcountry on 14th Street Last Night

2100 block of 14th Street, NW Thanks to Nathaniel for sharing the photo above with us around 9:40pm Wednesday night: "Police stopping people on 14th Street in Northwest DC as a crowd of onlookers chant in opposition." Another reader sends a photo from 14th and W Street, NW said to have started around 9:10pm: