This is good news. The Blade reports that a 19-year old has been arrested and charged in the alleged hate crime where two men assaulted five lesbians outside the Columbia Heights Metro. The women say MPD officers refused to take a police report, laughed at them and told them to go home. Chief Cathy Lanier said there would be an investigation into the officers’ actions.
Let’s hope this kid goes to jail, and if other suspects are involved, they’re caught too. Let’s also hope that this leads to police paying more attention to hate crimes and assaults by teenagers in general. I feel like most of the crime in the neighborhood is done by younger kids. Maybe that’s true everywhere, but it’s worrisome.
