All posts tagged "cathy lanier"
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Lanier Hosts Town Hall Meeting
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier, several department heads within MPD, government leaders and community activists from within the LGBT community came together on Tuesday,...
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UPDATED: Ruby Corado Recounts Friday-Night Incident
A transgender woman was arrested Friday night in the city's 16th Street Heights neighborhood after police pulled her over for an apparently over-crowded SUV and...
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Anti-Bullying Task Force Presents Guidelines to Mayor Gray
At a Thursday press conference, the task force responsible for devising guidelines for a comprehensive D.C. anti-bullying policy presented its plan to Mayor Vincent Gray...
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GLLU Website Ceases
An external website for the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) is no longer operating, prompting some local LGBT activists to...
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D.C. Ward 5 Residents Rally Against Violence
In a world where silence sometimes equals complicity, the residents of Bloomingdale and Eckington made their voices heard the evening of Aug. 9. Marching to...
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Losing Tim Lipka
July began with the worst possible news for family and friends of Petworth resident Tim Lipka, 25. ''It was a shock,'' says Lipka's close friend...
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Questions on Crime
Members of the D.C. City Council chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for a perceived failure to effectively engage local community members on initiatives aimed at...
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Chief Lanier Wows D.C.'s Log Cabin Republicans
With a mix of blunt honesty, cheerfulness and quick-witted humor, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier charmed the members of the DC Log Cabin Republicans...
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D.C. Officials Announce Arrest in IHOP Shooting
Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier held a press briefing Monday, March 26, to announce the arrest of a suspect...
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Community Marches in D.C. To Protest Anti-LGBT Attacks [video]
Members of Washington's LGBT community held a march and vigil on March 20 following the shooting of a gay man at an IHOP restaurant in...
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Trans Group Decries DC Police Chief for “Abdicating” Responsibilities, But Lanier Shoots Back
A local organization today accused Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier of “abdicating” her responsibility to keep transgender people safe, but Lanier retorted that the...
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DCTC's Chief Problem
The words rolled off her tongue like a well-rehearsed mantra, ''We'd like to see all of those folks who are in that high-risk environment find...
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Activists Picket MPD and Prosecutors
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
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Protestors Picket Police and Prosecutors
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
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Mendelson Fields Testimony
Longstanding tensions and the often rocky working relationships between LGBT activists and members of the Metropolitan Police Department were once more highlighted during a three-hour...
