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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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