Federal law enforcement officials and plainclothes agents joined with Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday night in a mixed residential-commercial area of the city for one of the first police checkpoints set up after President Donald Trump’s order to put the police department under federal control and deploy the National Guard.

The checkpoint, in the U Street corridor, attracted more than 100 protesters, who gathered to heckle law enforcement while they stopped some cars, flagging several for additional investigation, reports NBC News.

Members of the roughly 800 National Guard, activated this week to support the city’s law enforcement, were not observed at the checkpoint. The Metropolitan Police Department has not commented on the checkpoint or whether anyone was arrested, but witnesses saw one car being towed away after its driver was arrested.

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