WTOP: Few arrests in midst of Capitol chaos increases prosecution challenge
With images of hundreds of rioters freely walking the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sitting in offices of elected lawmakers, stealing items and leaving the seat of American democracy without being arrested, seared in the nation’s…
WTOP: DC police union speaks out about Capitol Hill riots
The union representing rank-and-file members of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is not mincing words after the fatal riots at the U.S. Capitol this week.
Washington Post: Storming of Capitol was textbook potential covid-19 superspreader, experts say
Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol did not just overshadow one of the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic — it could have contributed to the crisis as a textbook potential superspreader, health experts warn.
Washington Post: D.C.-area college presidents, students outraged at pro-Trump mob invading the…
Students and faculty from Howard, GWU, Trinity Washington and other D.C. area colleges flabbergasted at U.S. Capitol attacks
Washington Post: How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure
Inside the U.S. Capitol, the rioters were in charge.
Washington Post: Dozens arrested after mob storms Capitol; officials vow that more will be charged
Several dozen people arrested in the violent chaos at the U.S. Capitol made their first appearances in court Thursday as authorities vowed to track down additional suspects and also determine why the mob that stormed and vandalized the…
District Links: Feds charge 40 over Capitol siege, with more arrests expected; DC leaders want full…
Happy Thursday. Federal prosecutors charged at least 40 people in DC Superior Court on Thursday in connection with Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, and law enforcement authorities said more charges and arrests are expected in the…
Washington Post: Pentagon placed limits on D.C. Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests due to narrow…
The Pentagon placed tight limits on the D.C. National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week, trying to ensure the use of military force remained constrained, as the Guard carried out a narrow, unarmed mission requested by the city’s…
Washington Post: Assessing the damage at the U.S. Capitol: ‘You can see the broken windows’
Outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Sheridan Harvey took out binoculars and gazed hundreds of yards in the distance, looking for evidence of the damage rioters had caused to a complex that is an enduring symbol of American democracy.
Washington Post: Democratic control of Senate — and Capitol breach — put D.C. statehood front and…
The collision of two major events Wednesday — the breach of the U.S. Capitol and Democrats’ clinching of the Senate majority — has unleashed a burst of momentum for D.C. statehood at the start of a new congressional session.
DCist: U.S. Capitol Police Chief Will Resign After Mob Breached Building’s Security
United States Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, the head of the force that was overwhelmed by insurrectionists who took over the U.S. Capitol for nearly five hours, will resign effective January 16, according to the department.
Washington Blade: D.C. police chief nominee has record of LGBTQ support
Veteran D.C. Police official Robert J. Contee III, who Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated on Dec. 22 to become the city’s next Chief of Police, has a long record of understanding and support for LGBTQ-related issues, according to retired D.C.…
Washington Blade: Ruby Corado announces plans to ‘step down’ in 2022
Longtime transgender activist Ruby Corado, the founder and current executive director of the D.C. LGBTQ community services center Casa Ruby, announced on Monday in a Facebook posting that she plans to step down as Casa Ruby’s leader around…
Street Sense: Homeless people in quarantine face poor conditions, rudeness, and transphobia
D.C. shelter residents in the isolation and temporary quarantine (ISAQ) site at the Capitol Skyline Hotel say they are being insulted and mistreated by Department of Human Services staff and security guards.
Press Release: Councilmember Anita Bonds on Insurrection, Calls for Trump to be Removed from Office
News Release — At-large DC Council member Anita Bonds
For Immediate Release:
January 7, 2021
COUNCILMEMBER ANITA BONDS STATEMENT ON INSURRECTION AT U.S. CAPITOL
CALLS FOR TRUMP TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE
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Neil Flanagan in The Architect’s Newspaper: Pushing Past Mies
Mecanoo’s renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library works through the nuances of the Mies’s signature style
Associated Press: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice…
WTOP: Dozens charged so far in DC unrest; more serious charges possible
More than 6,000 National Guard members from D.C. and elsewhere were mobilized, and a 7-foot tall fence was erected around the U.S. Capitol in response to Wednesday’s unrest, which D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called “acts of domestic…
DCist: Trump Insurrectionists Lodge At D.C. Airbnbs — Much To Washingtonians’ Distress
On Wednesday morning, as Congress gathered on Capitol Hill to certify the country’s Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, Andrew Kravetz was at his H Street row home, drinking coffee and scrolling through Twitter in his…
City Paper: Are D.C. and Maryland Diners Flocking to Northern Virginia to Dine Inside?
"A small fraction of people are coming over, but the majority are scared and nervous about getting and spreading COVID."