Last week, we learned that MPD called the shooting in IHOP last Sunday morning was an anti-gay attack, and there was another attack at Georgia and Irving that was also classified as anti-gay. That, combined with other attacks against transgender people, led some local residents to organize a silent solidarity march in the neighborhood past the attack locations.
The march, organized mainly on Facebook, was last night and drew about 700 people, according to DCist’s report on it. MPD Chief Cathy Lanier attended, as did councilmembers Jim Graham, Muriel Bowser and Michael A. Brown. There are more photos here, and the Washington Blade has a thorough article here.
Let’s hope this kind of action works, the awareness of these issues increase, and the crimes themselves decrease.
And here’s Chief Lanier talking to the rally outside the IHOP:
