Trump’s Washington takeover begins as National Guard troops arrive

The influx came the morning after the US president announced he would be activating guard members and taking over the city’s police department (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday.

It comes after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.