“A lot of these supporters of our president that were out are normally law enforcement supporters … perhaps there was a miscalculation,” Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said on WAMU’s Politics Hour on Friday.

A coalition of Trump supporters and far-right groups will again converge on Washington to protest the results of the presidential election.

In picking the 31-year D.C. veteran, Mayor Muriel Bowser stayed within the police department and also spurned calls from activists for broad community engagement in the process.