By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House has dispatched social media teams alongside FBI agents executing arrest warrants in the nation’s capital to generate videos that promote U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in the District of Columbia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The highly unusual arrangement runs afoul of longstanding Justice Department norms which seek to insulate criminal investigations from political influence.

It could hamstring prosecutors’ ability to try their cases by generating pre-trial publicity and raise constitutional questions about suspects’ rights to privacy in cases involving arrests carried out in non-public areas, legal experts say.

The White House has been playing an outsized role in the FBI’s operations since T

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