Meghann Abraham was on the phone with her father when the police arrived. He’d called Abraham after reading in the national news that FBI agents had visited his daughter’s tent as part of President Donald Trump’s D.C. law enforcement surge. He wanted to make sure she was OK.

As Abraham reassured him, an officer from the D.C. police beckoned her over. Abraham told her father she had to hang up.

“We’re clearing all this up today,” she remembers the officer said.

The next hour was overwhelming and anger-inducing.

As the officers trashed the tents and belongings of her neighbors, Abraham hurriedly sifted through the contents of her life. Between her clothes, mattress, dresser, table, and camping chairs, she debated what she should take. Her boyfriend was at work at the time, so she’d have

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