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Location: 17th and L st NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) There’s a group of bike messengers that have made the entrance to Potbellies (sic) and the Kita building their home. They stand there all day, hollering at women, asking them to smile, saying all sorts of terrible things. I’ve confronted them, saying “hey, you seem like nice […]

Location: Vienna Metro Orange Line Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) When I was 17 and waiting for my brother to pick me up a man sat down next to me. I nodded at him and he started speaking to me and reached for my crotch. [I] ran very fast into the metro and have been fearful to be alone […]

Location: Holbroke & Childress St NE Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) I was walking my dog before work and heard a man call out to me “Hey!” I thought he wanted to comment on the dog or something, so I stood there while he walked over. He leaned close to me and said, “You wanna sell […]

“It wasn’t physical abuse, but I feel very, very violated.” Location: Dupont Circle Starbucks (1501 Connecticut Avenue, NW) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was sitting in the upstairs corner at the Starbucks at DuPont Circle on a weekday morning for a couple of hours when I noticed that the man sitting directly across from me hadn’t turned the […]

Location: 12th & F St NW (Metro Center) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was approached by the perpetrator and asked for money. I said no and he waited to make the comment, “I thought you were with a black man.” He then followed me [and my partner] 2 blocks to the corner off 12th & F st NW. […]