Who are the folks in riot gear trying to take back the streets in DC?
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The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.
Then there are the officers who can be spotted across Northern Virginia in white marked patrol vehicles labeled only as "United States Police" the purposefully vague public name given to what is formally known as the CIA’s
Security Protective Services, who provide security to the CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence. They carry weapons, but have limited law enforcement authority. (As one agent once told me, only half-joking, “We can’t arrest you, but we can kill you.”)
A good TL;DR article from Garrett Graff:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...rcement-302551