D.C.'s stepped-up law enforcement continues: Last night, a somewhat predictable scene broke out between Homeland Security officers doing a traffic checkpoint at 14th and W streets NW and protesters, who shouted "Go home, fascists."
The checkpoint, which sprang up around 8 p.m. and was mostly conducting seatbelt and broken taillight checks, also appeared to be looking for illegal immigrants, with some agents reportedly there from Enforcement and Removal Operations, a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It does not appear to have done all that much, detaining a grand total of two people. (Nor did the protesters do all that much: Routinely calling law enforcement "bastards" and "fascists" means the words kinda lose their luster after enough years, and it's not clear that D.C.'s protesters would actually like it if law enforcement stopped doing their jobs.)
Per a Washington Post report: "When a ride-share vehicle was stopped, the passengers seated in the back of the car rolled down the windows and shouted to the crowd the questions law enforcement was asking their driver, which they said included questions about immigration status." A group of enraged Washingtonians, upon seeing the ICE checkpoint, made homemade signs to warn people that a checkpoint was up ahead.
