The Trump administration's federal takeover of Washington, D.C. is escalating, with several people arrested at high-profile locations and homeless encampments torn down.

Protests also erupted in the streets last night after the White House said federal agents would patrol around the clock,

and the president himself hinted that his month-long crackdown could last

even longer.

Get off our streets! Get off our streets!

Protesters took to the Northwest D.C. streets last night.

Are you here?

You're trying to arresting us in people? What's your promise? What's your goal?

Responding to this show of force, federal agents alongside

city police, now under federal control, running a checkpoint at a busy intersection.

Some residents warned approaching cars to turn away. Police say they arrested 76 people in the district yesterday, outpacing last year's daily

average of 56.

And the DC police chief said today that information collected during these kinds of traffic

stops could now be turned over to federal immigration authorities.

It's all part of a federal crackdown in the nation's capital launched by President Trump,

citing a crime emergency that the data doesn't fully support.

Crime is rampant in D.C. It's rampant in our generally blue-run cities, and they've got

to do something about it.

Federalizing the D.C. police force carries a 30-day legal limit.

The president said yesterday he may extend that.

And this morning, blocks from the White House, another part of the president's plan went into

action.

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