All posts tagged "violence"
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Second Status Conference Ordered in Columbia Heights Murder
Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia told a D.C. superior court judge Friday that they are still seeking an indictment...
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Second Defendant in Drag Beating Gets Community Service
The second woman seen in an online video apparently attacking a local drag performer in a June 23 incident at a restaurant at 14th and...
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Probable Cause Found in Stanton Road Stabbing
The Southeast Washington man accused of stabbing a transgender woman anywhere from 35 to 40 times in the 3000 block of Stanton Road SE was...
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Man Arrested in D.C. for Shooting, Setting Gay Man Ablaze
A Northwest D.C. man was arrested by police last week and faces a charge of felony murder for the killing of a gay man in...
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McBride Preliminary Hearing Deferred
The man arrested in connection with the brutal stabbing of a transgender woman in Southeast D.C.'s Fort Stanton neighborhood had his preliminary hearing on an...
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Howard Theatre Stabbing Suspect Sentenced
A D.C. Superior Court judge Friday sentenced Ali M. Jackson, 20, of Washington, to eight years in prison and three years supervised release after pleading...
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Transgender Woman Shot in NE
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating a shooting involving a transgender woman that occurred Thursday morning in the 6000 block of Eads Street NE,...
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D.C. Drag Entertainer Beaten in Viral Video
A recently posted video that's gone viral shows a violent altercation involving a gay man who works as a drag entertainer and two women, which...
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UPDATED: Transgender Woman Suffers Knife Attack in Southeast D.C.
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating the case of a transgender woman who was hospitalized after being stabbed up to 40 times. The attack...
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Montgomery Co. Committee Holds Hate-Crime Discussion
The Montgomery County Committee on Hate/Violence, part of the county's Office of Human Rights, convened a meeting at the Rockville Memorial Library Town Center Wednesday...
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Backlash to the Future
France is such a strange country. I don't say that from first-hand experience of strolling the streets of Paris — my only brief time there...
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Obama signs LGBT-inclusive VAWA back into law
President Barack Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act back into law Thursday, which for the first time includes explicit protections for LGBT victims of...
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Assaulted lesbian amends statement: Now “afraid and … victimized repeatedly” by girlfriend’s family [UPDATED]
The story behind the attack on Mallory Owens continues to take twists and turns. Owens, a 23-year-old woman, was brutally assaulted by her girlfriend’s 18-year-old...
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Lesbian says Thanksgiving attack over history, not a gay hate crime; Mother remains concerned
A 23-year-old woman named Mallory Owens was assaulted this past Thanksgiving at her girlfriend’s house in Alabama. The attack was carried out by Travis Hawkins,...
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LGBT-Rights Leaders Mark Transgender Day of Remembrance
Activists and LGBT leaders across the globe are marking the 14th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance today as a means to raise awareness of the...
