> The agents protect federal buildings, government officials, foreign dignitaries and facilities, and they perform other law enforcement tasks. The Bureau of P

> The agents protect federal buildings, government officials, foreign dignitaries and facilities, and they perform other law enforcement tasks. The Bureau of Prisons does none of those things. Nor are they based in DC, which has no prisons. It's quite clear that these are external law enforcement personnel brought in for crowd control. As to whether they are "occupying" anything... that's a semantic distinction. Clearly their job is to hold ground (Lafayette Park in this particular instance) and prevent access to it by the public. If you have a fighting force doing that, then "occupation" is clearly the correct term. For police? I dunno. What do you suggest?