‘Don’t Be Smoking Outside’: Federal Agent Targets Black Man on His Own Porch Over Cigarette That ‘Smelled Like the Odor of Marijuana’ in First Hours of Trump’s D.C. Takeover

A viral video showed part of what day one of President Donald Trump‘s federal takeover in Washington, D.C., looked like after a federal agent was seen trying to determine whether a man was smoking marijuana outside when he was merely smoking a cigarette.

Hundreds of National Guard troops and personnel from a variety of federal law enforcement agencies have taken to the streets of the nation’s capital to curb what the president alleges is a rampant and unchecked increase in violent crime.

New footage that has been widely reshared on social media shows several agents walking the streets of the city when they come across a group of Black residents.

One of the agents, whose insignia appears to mark him as a US Park Police officer, politely greets the group, then stops, points at one person,