One council member called for the National Guard to be deployed in D.C. as the city's relentless pace of killings continued.
making it easier to detain those accused of violent crime while awaiting trial, while the mayor selected a new chief to lead the police department, replacing a popular leader who left for a job with the FBI.Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Sunday he has asked the new police chief to give lawmakers suggestions on providing “more resources for the police.” Council member Trayon White Sr.
But Lindsey Appiah, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice, said in an interview that she shares residents’ frustrations. She said Bowser has made “public safety a top priority,” and she called the latest shootings “brazen in nature,” noting police were close by for two of them and had already made an arrest in one.“There needs to be accountability for those who are actually the ones committing crime,” she said.
Then, late in the evening, three people were shot and killed at 16th and Good Hope. That brought to six the number of people fatally shot on Saturday, the most in a single day in the District this year. Police have not released the names of those victims. At least 30 white circles could be seen marking apparent evidence in the case; a car had a bullet hole in its driver side door. There were packages of Narcan, a nasal spray to reverse opioid overdoses, in the grass. Beneath a wooden awning were remnants of a violent night: a wound seal kit, a bottle of liquor and a pack of cigarettes. People sat on the steps of a church nearby, appearing to inject themselves.
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