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D.C. Blue-Very Blue - The force that Marion Barry built (or wrecked).
Jaywalking may be a petty crime, but on the night of March 30, 1967, it had disastrous consequences. At the corner of 13th and U Streets, in the Upper Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a young black man tried to cross against the light. Two cars nearly hit him, right in front of a stopped police vehicle. A white officer rolled down his window and asked, "Can't you tell the color of a streetlight?" The reply came as a string of obscenities, some of it racial. The cop had intended merely to issue a warning. Provoked, he was now determined to hand out a $5 ticket. This led to a scuffle that grew to include several onlookers: A group of black citizens pitted themselves ...
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