D.C. protesters chanted “Whose Street? Our street!” and “Go home!” toward federal and local law enforcement officers conducting a vehicle checkpoint stop across 14th Street NW on Wednesday night. Dozens of Department of Homeland Security and Metropolitan Police Department officers stood on the block between V and W streets to question passing drivers, while several protesters directed traffic away from the scene.
Kenneth, a 28-year-old resident of the U-Street Corridor who lives close to Wednesday’s checkpoint, ran into a nearby drugstore to purchase materials to make a sign directing traffic away from the checkpoint once he saw the officers stopping drivers.
“This is a dark period for our city, obviously, we don’t want federal control over our police department,” Kenneth said. “I just knew that during
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