This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIn a massive show of force, federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemical gas at peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday evening as appeared in the Rose Garden to threaten the mobilization of “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers” to quell “lawlessness” across the country.Hundreds of protesters were pushed away from Lafayette Square, where they were protesting the police killing of George Floyd, by the National Guard, U.S. Park Police and Secret Service. The ambush began...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIn a massive show of force, federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemical gas at peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday evening as appeared in the Rose Garden to threaten the mobilization of “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers” to quell “lawlessness” across the country.Hundreds of protesters were pushed away from Lafayette Square, where they were protesting the police killing of George Floyd, by the National Guard, U.S. Park Police and Secret Service. The ambush began...WW…

Local As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh necessity, fear and longing By The Georgetown professor was groggy, still tucked under her comforter when her research began. Robin Dillon-Merrill reached for her phone at 7 a.m., thumbed the screen and refreshed the death toll once again. She checked the Monday morning news, where government officials were debating and protesters were demanding the “reopening” of the country. Her job is to study the choices people make during times of uncertainty, and here was another week in the most uncertain time of all, when everyone, every day, is...…Local As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh necessity, fear and longing By The Georgetown professor was groggy, still tucked under her comforter when her research began. Robin Dillon-Merrill reached for her phone at 7 a.m., thumbed the screen and refreshed the death toll once again. She checked the Monday morning news, where government officials were debating and protesters were demanding the “reopening” of the country. Her job is to study the choices people make during times of uncertainty, and here was another week in the most uncertain time of all, when everyone, every day, is...WW…

A summer of deadly gun violence started when Missy Scott’s brother walked to a D.C. corner store on a Sunday morning. Melissa "Missy" Scott, 15, stands in front of the mural of her twin brother, Maurice, on a wall of the store where he was shot on May 26 in Southeast Washington. By THE TWINS WERE BORN 60 seconds apart, as if from the very beginning they did not know how to be without each other. Melissa Scott appeared first, and then came her brother, Maurice. Fifteen years later, that was still their routine: Every weekday morning, Melissa would roll out of bed first, emerge from her room...…A summer of deadly gun violence started when Missy Scott’s brother walked to a D.C. corner store on a Sunday morning. Melissa "Missy" Scott, 15, stands in front of the mural of her twin brother, Maurice, on a wall of the store where he was shot on May 26 in Southeast Washington. By THE TWINS WERE BORN 60 seconds apart, as if from the very beginning they did not know how to be without each other. Melissa Scott appeared first, and then came her brother, Maurice. Fifteen years later, that was still their routine: Every weekday morning, Melissa would roll out of bed first, emerge from her room...WW…

The carpet cleaner heaves his machine up the stairs, untangles its hoses and promises to dump the dirty water only in the approved toilet. Another day scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour. Another Washington area house with overflowing bookshelves and walls covered in travel mementos from places he would love to go one day.But this was not that day.“Tell me about this stain,” 46-year-old Vaughn Smith asks his clients.“Well,” says one of the homeowners, “Schroeder rubbed his bottom across it.”Vaughn knows just what to do about that, and the couple, Courtney Stamm and Kelly Widelska, know...…The carpet cleaner heaves his machine up the stairs, untangles its hoses and promises to dump the dirty water only in the approved toilet. Another day scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour. Another Washington area house with overflowing bookshelves and walls covered in travel mementos from places he would love to go one day.But this was not that day.“Tell me about this stain,” 46-year-old Vaughn Smith asks his clients.“Well,” says one of the homeowners, “Schroeder rubbed his bottom across it.”Vaughn knows just what to do about that, and the couple, Courtney Stamm and Kelly Widelska, know...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe troops were in formation. The residents were told to stay home. The heart of Washington was a fortress of fences, concrete barriers and security checkpoints. But on Sunday, the planned and promoted “armed march” on the nation’s capital never materialized.There were no gathered crowds, large or small, and authorities reported just of an armed man carrying a handgun and ammunition near barricades surrounding the Capitol building just after midnight.The quiet Sunday brought little relief to a city on edge from an attack on the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe troops were in formation. The residents were told to stay home. The heart of Washington was a fortress of fences, concrete barriers and security checkpoints. But on Sunday, the planned and promoted “armed march” on the nation’s capital never materialized.There were no gathered crowds, large or small, and authorities reported just of an armed man carrying a handgun and ammunition near barricades surrounding the Capitol building just after midnight.The quiet Sunday brought little relief to a city on edge from an attack on the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareA Virginia man was arrested after law enforcement found at least one firearm and ammunition in his truck as he tried to enter an near the Capitol on Friday evening with a credential that was not authorized, according to court documents.Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, of Front Royal drove his Ford F-150 up to a checkpoint on E Street, northeast of the Capitol, where he was met by Capitol Police officers, according to the court documents. The area is one of many under complete lockdown following the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol and ahead...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareA Virginia man was arrested after law enforcement found at least one firearm and ammunition in his truck as he tried to enter an near the Capitol on Friday evening with a credential that was not authorized, according to court documents.Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, of Front Royal drove his Ford F-150 up to a checkpoint on E Street, northeast of the Capitol, where he was met by Capitol Police officers, according to the court documents. The area is one of many under complete lockdown following the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol and ahead...WW…