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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 04 February 2016 - 11:07 AM

Late post - This flew under my radar.  -Ross

 

WTOP radio, 1/28:
 

6 teens arrested for punching man on Red Line

 

WASHINGTON — Police arrested six teenagers who they say were involved in a fight that led a man to be punched while trying to get off a Metro train at the Gallery Place station Thursday morning.

 

Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says a train with 30 teenagers on it was stopped at Woodley Park station after an assault at Gallery Place around 8 a.m. Thursday.

 

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Posted 04 February 2016 - 11:14 AM

WRC-TV Washington, DC 1/28:

Man Attacked in Red Line Metro Station; 6 Teenagers Arrested

 

A group of at least six teenagers beat and kicked a man in a downtown D.C. Metro station during rush hour Thursday morning, police said.

 

Five boys and one girl, all 16 or 17, were arrested at the Woodley Park Metro station after Metro Transit Police said they pounced on the man in the Gallery Place-Chinatown station.

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Posted 04 February 2016 - 11:28 AM

WTOP radio, 2/4:

D.C. chancellor: Students on Metro aren’t threatening safety

 

WASHINGTON — After six Wilson High School students were charged in an attack at a Metro station late last month, some are questioning its safety.

 

The students went before a judge on Wednesday, and one teenager is still being held.

 

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson says there were incidents on Metro before the city funded students’ free rides.

 

“I reject this notion that wild bands of roving students are attacking people on the Metro,” Henderson says.

 

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Posted 06 February 2016 - 04:12 PM

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