The protest comes as West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio announced they would deploy hundreds of additional National Guard troops to the nation's capital.

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.

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

Free DC, a “fiscally sponsored special project” of progressive nonprofits Community Change and Community Change Action, brought 150 demonstrators near the White House Monday to protest Trump’s

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Sunday that federal and DC law enforcement authorities arrested 68 people overnight in Washington DC, as part of a federal crackdown on crime ordered by President Trump.

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday 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 the streets around the clock.

Sean Charles Dunn, 37, was arrested in Washington, D.C., after allegedly throwing a sandwich at a CBP agent during a protest against increased federal law enforcement. Caught on video, the act led to felony assault charges.

City leaders in Washington, D.C., have repeatedly pointed to data putting violent crime at a 30-year low in the nation’s capital to argue against President Donald Trump’s federal takeover. NewsNation’s Tom Dempsey is live in D.