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**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)
Posted inCommunity

Hylton-Brown Case Latest in Pattern of Deadly D.C. Police Tactics, Family Attorney Says

by Sam P.K. Collins January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

D.C. police officers, for years, often used their vehicles as battering rams while chasing Black male bikers, said the attorney for the family of a man killed in an illegal pursuit.

close up photo of wooden gavel
Posted inCommunity

Jury Convicts MPD Officers Involved in Karon Hylton-Brown’s Death

by Sam P.K. Collins December 21, 2022December 23, 2022
Metropolitan Police Department Cadet Taron Alston speaks during an opening ceremony for the department's new Cadet Corps Training Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in D.C. on Oct. 19. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

MPD Cadet Program Moves Into New Facility in Ward 8

by WI Web Staff October 19, 2022October 19, 2022
Since Kevin Hargraves-Shird’s death, family, friends, community members and activists representing Black-led community defense hub Harriet’s Wildest Dreams have coalesced around movement to hold MPD accountable for his death and that of Lazarus David Wilson, a man shot and killed by MPD Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw at the Wharf last month. (Sam P.K. Collins/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

D.C. Police-Involved Shooting of Kevin Hargraves-Shird Leads to Outrage

by Sam P.K. Collins August 10, 2022August 10, 2022
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (center) speaks during a Feb. 1 joint press conference in northeast D.C. with Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (right) and Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee (left) on the rise in juvenile carjackings in the region. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

Bowser Admin, Police Union Reach Pay Accord

by WI Web Staff July 28, 2022July 28, 2022
**FILE** Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee (Courtesy of MPD via Twitter)
Posted inCommunity

Bowser, MPD Announce New $20,000 Hiring Bonus for Police Officers

by WI Web Staff June 17, 2022June 17, 2022
A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.
Posted inEditorial

EDITORIAL: Violence at Our Front Doors

by WI Editorial Staff May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
Chief Pamela A. Smith (Courtesy of U.S. Park Police)
Posted inCommunity

MPD Hires Ex-Park Police Chief Pamela Smith as Equity Officer

by WI Web Staff May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
Dunbar Senior High School in northwest D.C. (Courtesy of DCPS)
Posted inCommunity

Teen Arrested, Charged With Making Bomb Threats to D.C. Schools

by Sam P.K. Collins February 10, 2022February 10, 2022
Dunbar Senior High School in northwest D.C. (Courtesy of DCPS)
Posted inEducation

8 D.C. Schools Evacuated After Bomb Threats

by Sam P.K. Collins February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

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