About one hundred demonstrators continue to sing, chant and dance in protest outside the White House hours after the Ferguson grand jury decision was announced. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tomorrow, the D.C. Council judiciary committee will hold a public oversight hearing for the Metropolitan Police Department—along several other public safety agencies—to review the department’s performance in the past year. Apart from whatever scrutiny the department may face from Councilmembers, they’ll also be facing scrutiny from activists protesting the use of “jump-outs.”

The DCFerguson movement—a grass roots activist movement initiated by the National Black United Front, ANSWER Coalition, WE ACT Radio, and members of ONE DC—has been diligently working to end what they say are tactics used by the MPD to target black communities in D.C. Tactics like jump-outs, in which an unmarked police vehicle carrying several officers wearing civilian clothes “stop and intimidate ordinary citizens into submitting to interrogation or an unwarranted search.

The MPD has repeatedly denied using jump-out tactics, but reports of it happening continue to surface, prompting Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) to issue a statement about it. “The fact is, if you live east of 16th Street NW, chances are you have witnessed a jump-out or the aftermath of such in a neighborhood,” Grosso wrote in a statement on his Web site. “This practice is one that is taking place now, and we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to its use and its detrimental impact on our communities.”

Tomorrow, activists associated with the DCFerguson movement will hold a protest during MPD’s oversight hearing by not only packing the room and testifying in front of the judiciary committee, but by sitting “in silent protest of the ongoing lack of oversight by city officials of the MPD’s targeting of Black communities with tactics like jump-outs.”