All posts tagged "police"
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Local Gay Man Found Dead (UPDATED)
Mark Gower, a 26-year-old gay man from Portland, Ore., who had been living in the District since 2006, and dancing at Secrets in Southwest D.C....
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Conviction for Bias
The Metropolitan Police Department announced on Wednesday, June 16, that a D.C. Superior Court jury has found two men guilty for their involvement in a...
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Trans Woman Shot
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced on Friday, June 4, that members of MPD's 6th District are investigating an assault with a dangerous weapon, which...
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Glancing Blows
The second week of the Robert Wone trial began with a sharp focus from the defense -- and discussion of sharp glances on the scene...
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Watergate's Strange Bedfellows
June 2010 will mark not a milestone, but an anniversary nonetheless, of the Watergate break-in that forever altered the landscape of American politics, if not...
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Second Southeast Homicide
Two more people within the local LGBT community have been killed since Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) held its last public meeting in November....
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Unpacking the Numbers
As a survivor of violence and a lesbian trans woman in a world that treats my identity as delusional or deceptive, I understand fear. I...
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Murder in Southeast
The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that Anthony James Perkins, a 29-year-old Southeast resident and ''member of the LGBT community,'' was found dead, shot inside...
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Editing for Inclusion
The Metropolitan Police Department is slated to review hate-crime reports for 2008 in an effort to include a new category noticeably missing from Mayor Adrian...
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Lacking Liaison
Little more than two years ago, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier sat with members of the local LGBT community and promised that the...
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Open-House Anger
Despite the lure of an unseasonably temperate evening, about 60 people chose to remain indoors to hear what Assistant Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan...
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Q Street Questions
There has been confusion and there have been endless questions in the few days since a knife attack left one local woman injured and another...
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Attitude Adjustment
As an activist I have had occasion to criticize the police; but I also count many police officers as friends. So after gay attorney Pepin...
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Police Seek Suspect
The Metropolitan Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect believed to have been involved in a ''gay on gay'' robbery near Massachusetts Avenue...
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Survey for Safety
Washington is home to the mother lode of public and nonprofit entities that digest data, move society forward, and dole out funding for an infinite...
