Shock and dismay after national guard troops shot near White House

Amid a frenetic scene, some residents said Trump's militarization of the capital had much to answer for

The scene around Washington's Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seem to fit Donald Trump's most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal troops to bring a firm smack of law and order.

An area normally the preserve of professional office workers, coffee shops and lunch venues instead bore the hallmarks of a major crime scene as news spread that two national guard troops had been shot. Authorities later said the shooting suspect had been identified as an Afghan man.