So... a good spot for muggings ? Plenty of opportunity ?
Good place for the execution of privileged whiteys. Or it could have been the DNC or their partner in crime, the FBI.
There have been a spate of muggings there in the past year, what with increased gentrification spreading in a wider circle around the Capitol into areas that had been solidly black from around the time of "white flight" in 1950 until the recent revitalization of Florida Avenue and H Streets since 2010 or so. The DC buzz is that at least some of the street robberies ("Give me your wallet/phone/jewelry", etc) are attributable to yuppies walking with earbuds in or with their faces in their smartphones. Also, the economy is much worse for unskilled people than in decades. And then there is the cumulative effect of the dumbing-down, weaponized secularization, "rights talk", racial balkanization and DoubleSpeak for the past 7 years — all of which are emboldening street criminals.
That said, someone on another thread put forth the theory that the recent uptick in street crime was seen as a cover story opportunity for whomever wanted to kill this guy for political reasons.