Civil Rights leader @repjohnlewis visited 16th St NW outside of the White House - now Black Lives Matter Plaza - Sunday morning. His answer to @fox5dc on his response to Saturday’s massive BLM protests:
Senators @KamalaHarris@SenGillibrand and Mayor @PeteButtigieg are at the Homestead migrant child detention facility now.
Buttigieg reached over to shake Harris' hand and said: Hey, how you doing? Congratulations on last night.
#HappeningNow This is the early Saturday morning protest happening in DC’s Kalorama neighborhood. A tweet organizing the protest reads: “@ShutDown_DC will wake up Postmaster General (and Trump donor) Louis DeJoy at his Kalorama condo.”
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.@KamalaHarris asked her reaction to @JoeBiden recently saying he was not going to be as polite in the second debate, a comment aimed at Harris. "My mother raised me to be polite, and I intend to be polite," said Harris.
The grandfather of Davon McNeal, the 11yo boy shot & killed in SE DC last night, cried, pleading for parents to step-up. Says his daughter, a Violence Interrupter who works with @trayonwhite held a July 4th event to watch the fireworks when MPD says a group started shooting.
.@BetoORourke on the Midland/Odessa shooting from Fairfax Station, VA: “Not sure how many gunmen. Not sure how many people have been shot. Don’t know how many people have been killed ... but we do know this is f***** up. We do know - we do know that this has to stop.”
Congressman John Lewis visited now Black Lives Matter Plz this AM. Told me on protests:
‘It’s very moving. Very moving. Impressive. I think the people in DC and around nation are sending a mightily powerful and strong message to the rest of the world that we will get there.’
The invite of a lifetime, 40+ high schoolers across DC, MD & VA thought they were attending an Amazon engineering conference. Instead they were surprised with a $40k Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship & an @amazonnews paid internship. Watch @ACPSk12’s William Gomez-Palacios:
.@WashingtonNFL tells @fox5dc Dwayne Haskins Jr. will be wearing a helmet with Davon McNeal’s name on it. Davon’s grandfather shared a pic of the helmet on FB. Davon, just 11yo, was shot & killed after a July 4th DC peace cookout. He dreamed of playing in the NFL.
Below is some of what David McKean posted of his son & wife. Maeve McKean, he wrote, was his everything. His son Gideon, David McKean also wrote, may have been 38yo. McKean says is 8yo son was deeply compassionate.