Katie Mettler
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@washingtonpost reporter covering state government and criminal justice in Maryland. @PostGuild always. Hoosier in my heart.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2011
Exclusive report from me on Maryland’s maximum security psychiatric hospital, where years of understaffing and mismanagement created dangerous conditions that drove away staff and left patients vulnerable. I talked to nearly 30 people for this one:.
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A Washington Post investigation found that officials didn’t act on staff complaints about facility violence, which culminated in a patient brawl, rape and death.
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RT @danamunro2: In Maryland, there’s now a greener way to handle dead bodies.
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A new and greener kind of death care is coming to Maryland: water cremation. Those who’ve done it describe it as a gentler way to send off a loved one.
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RT @TheArtist_MBS: "By Friday, a Photoshopped version of a D.C. police missing persons flier was circulating around the department. 'Critic….
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RT @jennygathright: Stephen Miller spotted at MPD headquarters, near-silence from the police chief to her force and tense deliberations amo….
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Federal orders to D.C. police to enforce immigration laws became the fuse igniting a lawsuit D.C. filed against President Donald Trump.
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RT @washingtonpost: Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a ch….
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RT @washingtonpost: Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The i….
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RT @davidalexander5: Trump has described his federal intervention in D.C. as a crusade against crime. In its first week, the main targets h….
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We spent Friday night along a stretch of U Street — a nightlife hub and among the areas of the city with the highest number of crimes reported this year.
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RT @DanEggenWPost: "The video shows a cardboard carrier for to-go drinks sitting on the moped’s foot panel, still holding three iced coffee….
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Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.
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If you’ve ever spent a night out on U St. — where people dance, drink & eat giant pizza slices most weekends — then please read this richly detailed @oliviacgeorge account of the first Friday in DC’s night life hub since Trump’s police takeover.
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We spent Friday night along a stretch of U Street — a nightlife hub and among the areas of the city with the highest number of crimes reported this year.
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A comprehensive look at what went down during that very rough arrest of a food delivery driver Saturday morning in front of Bluestone Lane on R St. NW — witnessed by a Post reporter. With @postlocal reporters @DanRosZiff @teoarmus @EmmaUber7.
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Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.
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RT @DanRosZiff: Story explaining what happened and who this man is here: With great reporting from @postlocal jour….
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Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.
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RT @DanRosZiff: Our story is here, explaining what happened and who this man is, with great reporting from @postlocal reporters @kemettler….
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Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.
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RT @leloveluck: Full quote from Israel’s former intel chief: “The fact that there are already 50k dead in Gaza is necessary & required for….
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RT @DanRosZiff: On 14th & R this morning in DC, officers with vests that said only police detained a man who seemed to have been riding a m….
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RT @RiegerReport: The Washington Post is tracking where National Guard and federal agents have been seen in Washington, D.C. .
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RT @lisagartner: Since Trump deployed federal law enforcement across D.C., there has been a lot said about youth crime. A recent Post inves….
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Since President Trump deployed federal law enforcement across D.C., there has been a lot of discussion about youth crime. A recent Post investigation found that several of the city's systems designed...
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RT @oliviacgeorge: And there you have it. The first major legal pushback from the city after Trump announced he was sending in the Nation….
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D.C. officials could again face a dilemma: Comply with President Donald Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration law, or resist and further inflame one of the greatest conflicts in the history of home...
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RT @conarck: In Maryland prisons, incarcerated people are spending 23 hours a day or more in their cells, according to an advocacy group th….
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RT @oliviacgeorge: We've waved goodbye to some tremendously beloved colleagues, but those of us @postlocal are working hard to document and….
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RT @ELaserDavies: NEW: Inside Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in D.C. Trump long had a playbook for such a move and had new….
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President Donald Trump long had a playbook for deploying the National Guard in D.C. and a week ago had new motivation after a former aide was hurt in an attempted carjacking.
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RT @oliviacgeorge: Today—just hours after Trump announced he was placing the D.C. police under direct federal control & deploying the Natio….
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Two teens charged for their alleged involvement in an attack on DOGE staffer Edward Coristine were ordered by a D.C. judge to stay in youth custody.
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