Our Morning Roundup: Caffeine and Bullets Edition
Ciao, D.C. Hope you're staying warm & enjoying the recession! Now, some "news":
*Oh noez! Barista at the U & 16th Starbucks shoots self in leg, accidentally.
*More oh noez! Nathaniel R. Mines, Jr., a councilman in Fairmount Heights, stands accused of having impersonated a police officer. The Post reports:
...he was arrested outside a crowded dance early Saturday with a gun and bulletproof vest, police radio and several law enforcement badges.
Turns out he wasn't just playing dress-up: Mines actually seems to think he's the police commissioner. (His first arrest for impersonating an officer came in '96.)
*Also in Prince George's County: NBC Washington reports the release of a PG Police dashboard-cam video that "shows officers John Wynkoop and Scott Wilson beating and pepper-spraying a Latino driver last October. The officers can also be heard mocking the driver's accent on the tape." The officers are suspended and an investigation underway.
*14th & You examines the remaking of U Street's intersections.
*Bummed that you missed West School's Monday Family Reading Night & Pajama Party? Bum no more! The snow pushed it back to tomorrow night.
Photograph by ChrisB in SEA.
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6:44 pm
City Paper should do an article on the Politics of Small Towns like Fairmount Heights, which is one of the oldest Black Incorporated Towns in America. The onday My 4th Mayor Election with controvesrial Mayor Candidate Nathaniel Mines, would make for great reading. Also the Town of Home of Former D.C.Mayor Candidate Arthur Action Jackson, a former Town councilman who moved to Ward 8 and was elected the ward's reparesntative to the DC.Democratic State Committee. The Town is rrich in history. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing 's family has owned porperty in the town for years.
A great story for city paper
AL Hacther
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