Posts Tagged ‘crime’
The Washington Post Cross-Dressing Shoplifting Story Misfires
Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about two shoplifting suspects who were shot over the weekend by a Prince George’s County police officer. The suspects were shot after they attempted to drive away with the officer’s arm lodged in the door of their getaway car. But the Post story was not concerned with the facts of this botched escape—the newspaper had already covered the particulars of the incident a day earlier. The follow-up amounted to a lengthy correction of one fact: the gender of the wounded suspects.
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Why The “Georgetown Cuddler” Will Never Be The “Crapist”
He Who Shall Not Be Named: TheVoice Doesn’t Like to Have to Use “Cuddler”
On Sept. 4, Georgetown University told its students to stop calling him “The Cuddler.”
Because cuddle is far too soft a description for what the suspect does. In a typical attack, a man enters a student’s residence through an unlocked window or door, lies down next to her, and attempts to sexually assault her. He’s been accused of everything from laying a blanket atop his victim to placing his penis on his victim’s thigh. According to D.C. Police, the episodes span a 20-month period stretching back to January 2008.
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UPDATED: Two Transgender Women Stabbed At 200 Q Street NW
Two transgender women were stabbed in the abdomen today in the 200 block of Q Street NW, FOX 5 is reporting. The stabbing occurred around 3 p.m. When police arrived, the victims were found lying outside of a building. Both women were taken to the hospital, where one died. The condition of the other victim is unknown. Further information—the victims’ identities, potential suspects, and the circumstances of the crime—have not been released.
UPDATE: “Sources” told News4’s Jackie Benson “the two may have been fighting.”
UPDATE: According to the Washington Blade’s Lou Chibbaro, the two victims of today’s stabbing were transgender women, not transgender men as was previously reported on NBC Washington, WUSA9, FOX 5, and this blog (it’s since been corrected). Here’s Chibbaro’s reporting:
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Gay Crime Log: Fast Food Fight Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including a juvie assault in a fast food restaurant—below.
TWEETING TOM. Thursday, April 9. 11:30 p.m. “Members of the Second District responded to a complaint of a suspicious person in the 3000 block of M Street, N.W. According to the callers, they observed a black male taking photographs of strangers with his cell phone. The male was located and identified.”
UNHAPPY MEAL. Saturday, April 11. 11:50 p.m. “Members of the Second District responded to the area of the 1600 block of 17th Street, N.W. for the report of an assault. Upon arrival, officers located the adult male victim suffering from minor injuries to his head. According to the victim, he was inside a nearby fast food restaurant, when he became involved in a verbal altercation with an adult female and her small child. At some point, the adult female directed her child to strike the victim with a bottle. The child broke the bottle and struck the victim in the head, causing the injuries. According to the victim, the altercation began when the victim heard the child yelling racist and homophobic slurs and confronted the child. The suspects are described as a black female, heavy set, approximately 50 years old, with red or orange hair and a black male, approximately 7-9 years old, slim and about 5′5″ tall.”
Gay Crime Log: Fuck Fred Phelps Edition
Yeah . . . get out of our fucking city.
It’s feast or famine over at the Gay Crime Log. The Sexist isn’t sure what she did to anger the Gay Crime Gods, but for the past two weeks, her D.C. police crime report e-mails have been barren. Today, her inbox was blessed with a mammoth three weeks of anti-trans hate crimes, costly club hook-ups, and anti-Fred Phelps action.
DOUBLE MOTIVE. “On Sunday, March 15, 2009, at approximately 2 a.m., two adult male victims reported they were robbed at gunpoint by three suspects. During the robbery, one of the suspects referred to one of the victims using a homophobic epithet. The victims received minor injuries. The suspects were described as black males, in their early 20’s. Two of the suspects wore their hair in plaits.”
YOU HAVE TO GO HOME, AND YOU CAN’T STAY HERE. “On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at approximately 5 p.m., members of the Second District were dispatched to the area of Dupont Circle for a possible assault. Upon arrival, officers located an elderly male at the nearby bus stop. He was disoriented and possibly intoxicated. He was accompanied by another male, who advised he was attempting to get his friend home from the local bar. The two began to argue. The elderly male was transported home.”
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Gay Crime Log: Clubbing In Da Club Edition
Domestic violence victim leaves boyfriend, finds bus
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including a domestic violence victim who takes refuge in a bus, and a man who clubs his boyfriend while in da club—below.
SURPRISE VISIT. MONDAY, MARCH 9 AT 11:40 PM. Members of the Fifth District responded to a hotel located in the 600 block of New York Avenue, N.E. for a destruction of property complaint. Upon arrival, the officers discovered a large window had been shattered and identified the individual who did the damage. He was arrested. Further investigation revealed the incident was motivated by a domestic dispute between the arrest subject and two other men staying at the hotel.
Gay Crime Log: Cell Block Assault Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including an assaulter who assault, and assaults, and assaults—below.
MAKING IT WORSE. FRIDAY, MARCH 6 at MIDNIGHT. The GLLU responded to a club at 1800 Half Street SW when they caught wind of “a disorderly customer,” who “was inside the business and assaulted several employees.” The man was arrested after refusing to leave, but he wasn’t finished—when he was transported to the First District, “during processing, he assaulted two civilian cell block technicians, causing minor injuries.”
The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Prostitution Surprise Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. This week in the GLLU’s crime log—including a man who’s so pissed he had sex with a male prostitute that he turned himself in—below.
* NO REFUNDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 19 at 2 a.m. Police responded to a call for robbery in the 4100 block of 14th Street NW. A man had “visited a known house of prostitution.” There, “he engaged in consensual sex acts with a member of the transgender community.” Here comes the good part: “Upon realizing he had been involved sexually with a biological male, the caller demanded his money be returned. When the service provider refused, he called police.” No report was taken, but MPD promises “a follow-up investigation.”
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Multi-Purpose Bathroom Edition
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including bathrooms used as prostitution dens and holding cells—below.
* Investigators detect suspicious overtones. 9 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28, the GLLU was contacted by the victim of a “burglary and attempted sexual assault,” with “hate/bias overtones.” Two suspects pushed him into his apartment. They robbed him and attempted sexual assault. Investigators say they were “unable to verify the victim’s account of the events.”
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The Week in GLBT Police Activity: Inauguration Crime Edition!
The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. As the inauguration neared, police activity ramped up. A round-up of inauguration week crime reports—including some unsupervised homeless house guests—below.
* At 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 14, 2009, police responded to Adams Morgan for a neighborly dispute. The callers asserted that they were being “harassed by other building residents because of their sexual orientation.” The other building residents had a different perspective—they said the callers were “creating an undesirable living environment in the building by having large, loud parties late at night, inviting homeless people to stay in their apartment without supervision, and also allowing their guests to verbally abuse building residents and owners.” MPD referred the case to Landlord-Tenant Court and the D.C. Office of Human Rights.
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