Protesters chanted “Whose Street? Our street!” and “Go home!” toward law enforcement officers conducting a vehicle checkpoint stop across 14th Street NW.

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.

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.

Outraged locals protested against a traffic checkpoint on 14th Street, Washington, DC on Wednesday night, as President Donald Trump’s takeover of the city’s police entered its third night. A DC police commander said that the checkpoint was a quote,

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Anger is growing over Trump’s decision to take over the DC police and deploy the national guard in the nation’s capital.

After US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of military and federal law enforcement to Washington in August 2025, social media users circulated numerous images purporting to show the scene in the nation's capital.

The National Park Service will reinstall a statue of a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that was toppled during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

Protesters confronted police officers at a checkpoint on 14th Street Northwest in Washington D.C., yelling 'get off our streets' following Trump's federal takeover.