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Location:  New Hampshire Ave & Quincy NW and New Hampshire Ave & Taylor NW (Petworth) Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) This morning, I was walking to the Georgia Ave metro station around 6:30 am. I noticed a man pass me on a bike while I was walking south down New Hampshire Ave. When I got to New […]

Location:  9th & U St. NW Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I had just stepped outside a bar to call the friends I was meeting. I was standing quite close to the bouncer, just far away enough to hear the phone. A man walked past with a group of friends, GRABBED ME BY THE WAIST, pulled me in, and […]

Location:  Bus stop at Georgia & Columbia Road NW (Petworth) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I arrived at the 70 bus stop shelter to wait for the bus around 8:30 p.m. on March 31. I heard someone moving around inside the stop so I decided to wait next to it since it was dark. A man (maybe 25-30 old) came […]

Location: 7th Street, outside Verizon Center Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking back to the office from lunch today, enjoying the beautiful, sunny weather. I walked by a group of three men who were talking with one another on the street; as I was walking by, one of them made an inappropriate comment to me about my […]

Location: Silver Spring, MD Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I wrote a few months back about a case of exposure I was unfortunate enough to witness back in November on the Red Line. Since then, I’ve followed the CASS Facebook Page and I read as many of the stories I can – they infuriate me. Street harassment had […]