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Location: Metro: Yellow line, between Shaw & Gallery Place Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I boarded the yellow line to Huntington at Columbia Heights metro station a little after 6pm. I was seated at one end of the car reading a book. A man, 40s to 50s, wearing sun glasses, started walking over to me while the […]

Location:  8th & R Sts, NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was crossing the street near the Shaw Metro and a man was just stepping off the curb as I was getting to the other side of the street. He stopped in his tracks when we were about 5 feet apart, looked me square in the face and […]

Location: R St and Florida Avenue NW (Shaw) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking along when I was passed by a man on a bike. He said something about how I was pretty; I ignored it. Then he parked his bike and began to follow me on foot. “You’re beautiful. You have beautiful hair. How long did […]

Location: 3rd and Florida Ave NW Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I was leaving my friend’s apartment a year or two ago and went to the corner to catch a cab. It was definitely after midnight, but it wasn’t much later than that. I had only been standing out there for a minute or two when a white […]

I was going for a jog after work through Logan Circle, up 14th Street, down Florida Ave., and through LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale. On multiple occasions, older men (probably 40+) either made comments as I passed them (one I heard saying “you don’t need to run to look like that”), leered at me, or jokingly […]