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The complaint, filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act on behalf of Dzhuliya Dashtamirova, a 23-year old woman who suffered injuries as a result of the maneuver, asserts the National Guard’s actions that evening was an assault.
Letter asking the D.C. Board of Elections to encouraging the Board to clarify rules regarding political attire at polling places.
“The D.C. police department’s approach to gun recovery has been dangerous and ineffective for years. The tragic shooting and death of 18-year-old Deon Kay is the logical conclusion of a policy that not only meets violence with violence, but actually escalates and incites it."
A young Black man running around his own yard prompted the warrantless search of six properties in the Deanwood neighborhood.
Today civil rights groups filed a motion to add Chief Peter Newsham and unnamed D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers as defendants in Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump.
The bill would grant statehood to the residential areas of the current District of Columbia as the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, and defines the reduced federal territory that would continue to serve as the seat of the federal government.