D.C. Police are searching for an inmate who managed to escape while he was being transported to United Medical Center Thursday morning. more ›

If you haven't been following the step-by-step progress of the ongoing Pershing Park case (that's the 2002 mass arrests of some 400 protesters by D.C. police, still playing out in endless legal wrangling), you might have missed the big development that surfaced Wednesday. City Paper's Jason Cherkis has been all over this story for ... forever, and yesterday he reported that a new affidavit from veteran D.C. Police Det. Paul Hustler points the finger directly at former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey as having ordered the arrests himself. This is a big deal, because Ramsey has consistently maintained in hearings and depositions related to this case that he did not order the arrests. This is the quote from Hustler's affidavit:

"As I walked closer, about five or six feet away from them, I heard Chief Ramsey say, 'We're going to lock them up and teach them a lesson.'"

A 30-year-old Maryland man was found shot Thursday evening in the 1600 block of K Street NE, on the edge of the Trinidad neighborhood. He was discovered at about 5:45 p.m. after police officers responded to a Shotspotter alert, the Post reports. The victim, Andre Pate, later died from his injuries at a local hospital. D.C. police had no more information available today on the shooting. more ›