Protesters marched to the White House on Saturday as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.

National Guard presence in D.C. is set to increase in the coming days after the governors of some Republican states deployed troops to the capital.

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital would ramp up and federal officers would be on the streets around the clock.

A senior Army official said that some troops were deploying with D.C. police Tuesday night and that their mobilization marked the beginning of the deployment of 800 National Guard members.

Tensions ran high Saturday across the District as crowds gathered to protest the federal law enforcement agencies patrolling D.C.

President Donald Trump deployed 800 National Guard troops to the nation's capital as part of a crime crackdown in the city.