With sirens blaring and people scrambling for safety all around him, an unidentified man in a suit and tie seems to be buried in his Blackberry as he strolls by a Capitol Hill police officer taking position with an assault rifle. “That’s D.C., right? People are so wrapped up in that little device in their hands that nothing else matters,” said Doug Mills, a New York Times photographer who captured the surreal moment during Thursday’s lockdown at U.S. Capitol.

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