WASHINGTON — Steps away from a YMCA, popular bakery and local pharmacy, a group of law enforcement officers across several agencies turned a busy intersection in a mixed residential-commercial area of Washington, D.C., into a police checkpoint Wednesday night as part of President Donald Trump’s directive to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. Uniformed officers with the Metropolitan Police Department stood alongside Homeland Security Investigations personnel and several plainclothes agents at one of the first checkpoints set up since Trump temporarily put D.C. police under federal control an

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