Civil Rights leader
@repjohnlewis
visited 16th St NW outside of the White House - now Black Lives Matter Plaza - Sunday morning. His answer to
@fox5dc
on his response to Saturday’s massive BLM protests:
Senators
@KamalaHarris
@SenGillibrand
and Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
are at the Homestead migrant child detention facility now.
Buttigieg reached over to shake Harris' hand and said: Hey, how you doing? Congratulations on last night.
#HappeningNow
This is the early Saturday morning protest happening in DC’s Kalorama neighborhood. A tweet organizing the protest reads: “
@ShutDown_DC
will wake up Postmaster General (and Trump donor) Louis DeJoy at his Kalorama condo.”
@USPS
@fox5dc
.
@KamalaHarris
asked her reaction to
@JoeBiden
recently saying he was not going to be as polite in the second debate, a comment aimed at Harris. "My mother raised me to be polite, and I intend to be polite," said Harris.
The grandfather of Davon McNeal, the 11yo boy shot & killed in SE DC last night, cried, pleading for parents to step-up. Says his daughter, a Violence Interrupter who works with
@trayonwhite
held a July 4th event to watch the fireworks when MPD says a group started shooting.
.
@BetoORourke
on the Midland/Odessa shooting from Fairfax Station, VA: “Not sure how many gunmen. Not sure how many people have been shot. Don’t know how many people have been killed ... but we do know this is f***** up. We do know - we do know that this has to stop.”
Congressman John Lewis visited now Black Lives Matter Plz this AM. Told me on protests:
‘It’s very moving. Very moving. Impressive. I think the people in DC and around nation are sending a mightily powerful and strong message to the rest of the world that we will get there.’
The invite of a lifetime, 40+ high schoolers across DC, MD & VA thought they were attending an Amazon engineering conference. Instead they were surprised with a $40k Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship & an
@amazonnews
paid internship. Watch
@ACPSk12
’s William Gomez-Palacios:
.
@WashingtonNFL
tells
@fox5dc
Dwayne Haskins Jr. will be wearing a helmet with Davon McNeal’s name on it. Davon’s grandfather shared a pic of the helmet on FB. Davon, just 11yo, was shot & killed after a July 4th DC peace cookout. He dreamed of playing in the NFL.
Below is some of what David McKean posted of his son & wife. Maeve McKean, he wrote, was his everything. His son Gideon, David McKean also wrote, may have been 38yo. McKean says is 8yo son was deeply compassionate.
CBS Scoop: the
@KamalaHarris
campaign will announce they have over 450 volunteer organized watch parties in all 50 states and DC for the
#DemDebate2
— more than double the # from the 1st debate, according to a campaign spokesperson.
@CBSNews
They say you never know how you’ll react until you’re in the moment.
This video is making the rounds, showing a woman standing her ground to an attempted armed suspect. I spoke w/the victim today, who’s not encouraging this response. I’ll have her message on
@fox5dc
@ 4, 5 & 6PM
#BREAKING
-
@PGPDNews
confirms AT LEAST 2 SHOT at the funeral for Arianna Davis, the innocent 10yo hit by a stray bullet in NE D.C. on Mother’s Day. Police are now closing off Washington National Cemetery
@fox5dc
Happening now outside of the
@mcpnews
Germantown, MD 5th District Station:
@bboinc14
&
@odonnell_r
are handing out ‘thin blue line police flags’ protesting County Executive
@Marc_Elrich
’s last week decision to ban a similar wooden flag from being displayed @ D5
@fox5dc
Absolutely devastating.
I spoke w/family of 10yo Shalom Mbah. They tell me Shalom is a twin who loved music & singing. Also told the family moved from Cameroon about 5 months ago. She was a Riverdale Elementary School 5th grader.
Neighbors still leaving flowers & candles👇
.
@KamalaHarris
speaks about relying on scripture in the fight for 2020.
Adds: "And yes pastor, I know you can't tell people who to vote for but you can tell people who to pray for ... So pray for all of us and please pray for me."
St. Joseph AME Church
Sunday in Durham, NC
I just talked w/18yo Ashlei Hinds’ mother, who shared Ashlei was the 2022-2023 SGA Pres. at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. HS & part of the Nat’l Honors Society. Mom says Ashlei was studying Sports Administration at
@LSU
, home for winter break.
Speaking w/ mom live on
@fox5dc
at 4P
#NEW
@DCPoliceDept
images of the person wanted in connection w/ the murder of 18yo Ashlei Hinds of Clinton, MD. The 18yo was killed reportedly attending a party held at the Embassy Suites on Military Rd. Her death sadly marked DC’s first murder of 2024.
Up to $25K reward.
@fox5dc
"I don't know, it's just something missing. He lacks the ability to have empathy, or sympathy, or concern ... And this president is lacking in the ability to lead."
@KamalaHarris
on
@realDonaldTrump
& Puerto Rico
-Nevada AFL-CIO convention
Conservative writer & podcast host
@MattWalshBlog
claims he leased a place in VA to be eligible to speak at tomorrow’s
@LCPSOfficial
School Board meeting after a speaker rule change was announced last week. A schools official tells me if he has proper proof, he can speak
@fox5dc
A relative tells
@fox5dc
his cousin, 32yo Hamza Jamil Zaki Abo Halaoh, a ride for hire driver, was the 2nd person killed in the double fatal shooting & crash on 11ST SE Sunday night. Says the 32yo wanted to live the American dream &
had plans to bring his family over from Jordan.
RIGHT NOW on
@fox5dc
the President left the White House and is walking in Lafayette Park toward H St, the location of protests & violent clashes since Friday.
.
@KamalaHarris
joins
@JulianCastro
in calling for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be impeached following Saturday’s NYT article that corroborated Deborah Ramirez’ story and mentioned a potential 3rd incident.
“... so what they did by gasing Americans, was make more Americans come out...” DC
@MayorBowser
heard saying while interviewing at Black Lives Plaza this morning (16th & K Sts NW).
@fox5dc
*VID WARNING*
A Capitol Hill mother walking her dog w/her 10 & 6yo children are stuck in a hit & run @ 12th and C Sts NE last week. The 6yo suffered a fractured foot. No arrests yet. Right now
@DCPoliceDept
need the Good Samaritan who ran after the driver to contact 1D.
@fox5dc
.
@KamalaHarris
received a standing ovation w/shouts of ‘God bless you’ & ‘hallelujah’ when welcomed to the dais. The 2019 SC NAACP Freedom Fund Celebration is underway - elected officials, county party leaders, business owners among those said to be in attendance
The moment the suspect wanted for murdering/attacking homeless people in DC & NYC was apprehended on PA Ave SE. VIDEO: Dennis Alloy. A trusted source confirms the suspect is Gerald Brevard III. An online search shows previous charges in Fairfax for burglary & abduction
@fox5dc
As of 9:30p today,
@DCPoliceDept
Chief Contee says an excess of 52 arrests made - 4 for carrying pistols w/out licenses, 1 for possession of prohibited weapon, 47 for curfew violations & unlawful entry. 26 of 52 on U.S. Capitol Grounds. 2 pipe-bomb from DNC, another from RNC
.
@KamalaHarris
talks
@BernieSanders
today in IA when asked about a speech he will give Wed. Says: ...I won’t tell Senator Sanders what to do but I am a proud Democrat and will remain that way. Rough log by
@adam_brew
&
@bfmitchell
:
.
@BetoORourke
Friday - 2nd stop in Roanoke, VA
"And oh by the way, in Bland they said, 'You are the first candidate for the presidency to every show up in Bland County, ever, in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia."
#NOW
15yo “Baby K” is held w/out bond and ordered to an adult detention facility. His attorney requested he be sent to a juvenile facility but the judge denied the request.
His attorney also said the 15yo was on his way to surrender @ the attorney’s office when arrested
@fox5dc
My heart is broken. We lost another legend,
@brucejohnson9
. He was a no nonsense journalist who TRULY cared about the people he covered. Bruce took me under his wing during some of my hardest times. I told him I’d repay him one day. His response: “Pay it forward.” 💔🙏🏽
.
@GiantFood
announces it’s pulling away from brand name products at the ONLY full service supermarket east of the river to mitigate significant losses in theft. Full statement:
#JUST
NOW by Independence & 4th NW - the police procession passes by with officers saluting a fallen law enforcement member as the ME van passes by. I’m told this is for the Pentagon officer who died after this morning’s shooting.
@fox5dc
#NEW
court doc’s released are connected to today’s
@FBI
search,
@fox5dc
has learned. Says 40yo Arian Taherzadeh & 36yo Haider Ali were arrested in SE DC today & charged w/False Impersonation of an Officer of the US, a federal offense. 4 USSS members also facing investigation 👇
John Ayala, tells
@fox5dc
he’s 11-year-old Davon McNeal’s paternal grandfather. Ayala says his grandson dreamed of being in the NFL & that everyone’s just tired of shootings in the community. He also mentions the Black Lives Matter protests in part of his interview.
@fox5dc
Julian Castro is practicing his Spanish, and tells
@kasie
why he didn't grow up speaking the language: "In my grandparents' time... Spanish was looked down upon. You were not allowed to speak it. People, I think, internalized this oppression..."
#BREAKING
employees at the Wharf’s Fish Market are arriving to learn they have been closed by DCRA after images yesterday showed a packed fish market.
@fox5dc
.
@BetoORourke
: "You know that this has to stop in this country. There is no, there is no reason. There is no reason that we have to accept this as our fortune, as our future, as our fate - and yet functionally, right now, we have."
-Fairfax Station, VA
Ahead of a NH Veterans Forum this AM
@KamalaHarris
released a plan that includes rescinding the military transgender ban & providing VA health care/housing assistance to 500,000+ veterans w/ “other-than-honorable discharges.” Plan posted here:
LISTEN: “My grandma marched on Washington and I am still doing the same thing” - EMOTIONAL speech from a BCC HS grad
MontgomeryCoMD student-led
#BlackLivesMatter
protest in Bethesda, MD - about 30 min away from the
#WhiteHouse
#GeorgeFloydProtests
@fox5dc
MPD tells me a 15yo girl was killed last night by Elvans & Stanton Rds. SE.
@DCPoliceDept
said initially, they did not believe the victim was the intended target.
ANC 8B04 Kimberly Little was very emotional. She called out the community’s landlords to do more beforehand
@fox5dc
#BREAKING
confirmed fam was told
@DCPoliceDept
made an arrest in the murder of former US Special Forces Afghan Interpreter Nasrat Ahmad Yar, shot & killed working
@lyft
in DC last summer. ‘You killed him’ heard on VID as younger suspects ran away
@fox5dc
An emotional
@BetoORourke
tells the audience he's thinking about El Paso & asks audience to think about El Paso as well -- first thing he mentions taking the stage for the
@AFSCME
presidential forum.
.
@BetoORourke
Friday - DOJ inspector general report on
@Comey
- "... I take any of their findings with a little bit of skepticism & want to make sure that we don't lose sight of the larger picture, which is that we have a president right now acting with complete impunity ..."
#UPDATE
@DCPoliceDept
release VID of the person they’re looking for in connection with the U St. murder of a transgender woman. 30yo Anee Roberson’s family told
@fox5dc
she was loved.
This is 30yo Anee Roberson, the person killed outside of Nellie’s Sports Bar this past weekend. Her father tells me she was loved.
@DCPoliceDept
were flagged early Sat, Oct. 14th to Roberson in the roadway - that there was an altercation that ended w/her in the path of a vehicle.
Outdoor service outside of the White House Sunday at
@washdio
St. John’s Church. Protesters & visitors moved more quietly behind as the service went on.
#BREAKING
it appears the
@councilofdc
is now looking to take
@MayorBowser
to court for withholding a SNAP benefit increase.
Told
@ChmnMendelson
circulated an emergency resolution this AM that would allow the council’s general council to do such, planning to take up next Tues
Family gave us permission to share this GoFundMe for baby Zailey, the child doctors were able to save after her mother was fatally shot sitting passenger in a car that police say was targeted. The driver survived.
I’m told Zailey is fighting.
@fox5dc
RECOGNIZE THEM?
@FairfaxCountyPD
shared new VID showing 4 younger looking suspects who FCPD says stole 53 hand & long guns from Dominion Defense in Springfield, VA April 29th. A co-owner of Rockville’s Engage Armament believes some of the same guys tried to hit their shop
@fox5dc
A
@USArmy
Veteran tells me the Lyft driver killed Monday was a longtime Interpreter for US Special Forces in Afghanistan. Friends worked hard to relocate the fam after the ‘21 US pullout. He was living the American Dream here, working to own a tow company.
Nasrat Ahmad Yar, the Lyft driver killed in D.C. on Monday, was allegedly a longtime U.S. Army interpreter in Afghanistan who relocated to Alexandria in 2021.
#UPDATE
the driver arrested for this hit & run 👉 64yo Sam Holloway, has had a bench warrant out for his arrest SINCE 2019 after he failed to appear for diversion post being charged w/not having a permit about 4yrs ago. He was held on the open warrant today …
*VID WARNING*
A Capitol Hill mother walking her dog w/her 10 & 6yo children are stuck in a hit & run @ 12th and C Sts NE last week. The 6yo suffered a fractured foot. No arrests yet. Right now
@DCPoliceDept
need the Good Samaritan who ran after the driver to contact 1D.
@fox5dc
#BREAKING
Sources tell me there’s an arrest in the Embassy Suites hotel murder of 18yo Ashlei Hinds. I’m told the person arrested is an 18yo of NE DC
@fox5dc
I just talked w/18yo Ashlei Hinds’ mother, who shared Ashlei was the 2022-2023 SGA Pres. at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. HS & part of the Nat’l Honors Society. Mom says Ashlei was studying Sports Administration at
@LSU
, home for winter break.
Speaking w/ mom live on
@fox5dc
at 4P
At a Greensboro, NC Sunday rally,
@KamalaHarris
said the president's trade policy is "born out of his fragile ego" and that she's spending a lot of time in Iowa "because, I intend to win."
Davon’s other grandfather tells me the family moved out of the neighborhood bc of the violence. They still have family here & mom threw a July 4th ‘stop the violence’ type cookout. John Ayala says 11yo Davon was only dropping by to pick up a charger & ear buds when shots rang out
.
@KamalaHarris
at the NH
@votevets
forum: "I commit to you, as I have in the Senate, I will fight to make sure that we require an authorization of use of military force. That it not be reliant on what we did in 2001. I commit to you that we will end these forever wars ..."
#NEW
just spoke w/ the woman hailed a hero, Natalie Brower. She was the driver of that
@pgcps
school bus 3 teens boarded, trying to kill another teen on May 1st, per
@PGPDNews
.
“When I saw the handle of that gun, the only thing I could do was call on the name of Jesus.”
@fox5dc
#NEW
video
@DCPoliceDept
just released shows how suspects used a fire extinguisher to steal $250,000 worth of merchandise from the City Center Chanel store. Security fired. Police are still looking for the suspects.
More info here:
💔
Jocelyn told
@fox5dc
“I lost a big part of my family in that accident but also feel a lot of anger that this has clearly happened in the past so many times and there was no emergency plan.”
My baby Mona was one of the dogs that didn’t make it at the
#districtdogs
flooding. I can’t wrap my mind around her not being here anymore. All of this could have been avoided if the owner wasn’t so negligent
.
@DCPoliceDept
asking private business owners to review their footage - to share images of ppl destroying property or hurting people Sat night or this morning to share with them: (202) 727-9099.
Criminal investigation division reviewing gov’t cameras.
Images will be shared.
It's Day 6 of the
@HowardU
#HUSitIn
-
@HUResist
says they made history. A leader in the HU 1968 sit-in says this is a lesson you can't learn in a clasroom.
@wusa9
From
@GovLarryHogan
•the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) took place @ National Harbor.
•Those who attended or worked CPAC may be at some risk for acquiring COVID-19.
•MDH notified
@CDCgov
, White House & Department of Health and Human Services.
In what sounded like the strongest defense of her record yet,
@KamalaHarris
told an audience in Myrtle Beach, SC, "I am never going to apologize" for having prosecuted child molesters, rapists and murderers. Added she's proud of the work she did, focusing on truancy. Listen below
NEW: D.C. Council APPROVES the controversial Revised Criminal Code Act of 2021 in 12-1 vote, overriding Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto. It's the first comprehensive revision of the capital city's criminal code since it was created by Congress in 1901. More on
@fox5dc
at 3/4/5/6.
While it’s a rainy Sunday, my heart couldn’t be more filled! I’m so grateful I got to enjoy this year’s pandemic birthday with my family. Borrowed some unicorn, Princess & LEGO Batman man pieces from the nieces & nephews lol ❤️
During
@SenKamalaHarris
‘s questioning, the Twitter-verse was commenting on how Harris appeared to have gotten under Barr’s skin.
@davidaxelrod
‘s response is quickly growing in likes and shares.
.
@KamalaHarris
elicited what seemed to me to be a pretty astonishing admission from Barr that neither he nor Rosenstein or their staffs examined the underlying evidence gathered by the special counsel before deciding the president would not be charged for obstruction.
LAST NIGHT
@mcpnews
tells
@fox5dc
they believe a DT Bethesda business owner was followed from DC to MD, targeted for his Porsha. His car captured VID. Victim says he was pistol-whipped & later heard a shot fired. Suspects couldn’t drive the Porsha (it’s a stick)
@fox5dc
@ 5 & 6P
#BREAKING
@MayorBowser
announces a Declaration of Public Emergency to respond to the migrant situation in D.C. Also announced plans to start an Office of Migrant Services
@fox5dc
"The U.S. Postal Service is a fundamental part of our Democracy. It’s a necessary part of living in the United States and it’s not a service that should be taken away," Dodds added.
Wow. Just stopped at a Montgomery County
@Shell
to fill up. The attendant comes running out to tell me someone tried to open my car door as I was closing out/putting the pump back. Appreciate him doing that.
Exactly why I lock my doors pumping gas. Be careful out there all.
#BREAKING
@ParkPolice
ID the suspect Capital Crescent Trail assault as Anthony Brennan 3rd of Kensington, MD. He was arrested on a District Court arrest warrant, MC Park Police say.
@fox5dc
Thanks to tips from the community we identifed a suspect in the assault on the Capital Crescent Trail. A short while ago, Anthony Brennan 3rd of Kensington MD was taken into custody on the strength of a District Court arrest warrant. Official press release is available below.
#NEW
according to a
@KamalaHarris
Campaign Adviser, the Senator has been debate prepping @
@gmmb
’s DC office while in town. Did some more in Miami yesterday & today. Part of that prep: Caribbean food - arroz con pollo & stewed fish and callaloo.
Heartbreaking. Marcus Glivings asks for the suspect to turn themselves in after his son was hit & killed while riding his skateboard just after midnight, Monday, April 8th. Happened by Veirs Mill Rd & Monterrey.
@mcpnews
is looking for a white ‘09 Acura w/damage. (1/2)