Small groups of federal agents gathered throughout Washington, DC, on Thursday night to clear out homeless encampments as part of President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

In Washington Circle – an area in southwest DC close to George Washington University – confusion quickly developed when several agents showed up after dark.

“It was kind of a melee of (DC police), Secret Service, Customs and Border Patrol and the FBI,” Jesse Rabinowitz, the campaign and communications director at the National Homelessness Law Center, told CNN.

CNN did not observe agents removing tents at the Washington Circle site.

DC officials and homeless advocates were waiting for expected federal law enforcement action – and there were notices posted on tents in the circle gi

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