Photo by Markus Krisetya.Good morning, Washington. When will the investigation into the Vince Gray campaign shift into the next gear? The Examiner updates, noting that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is still “looking into” allegations leveled against Gray campaign staffers’ who allegedly lied to city officials. The grand jury investigation into the allegations against Sulaimon Brown and former interim director of human resources Judy Banks is now in its eighth month.
Woman Commits Suicide at Bethesda Station: Around 8 p.m. last night, a woman was struck and killed by a Metro train at the Bethesda station. The woman, who has not been identified, is the seventh person to leap in front of a train at a Metro station in 2011. The Red Line had to single track through Bethesda for some time last night, but normal service was restored by closing time, and the death did not adversely affect any of the weekend’s Red Line track work.
Occupy, Police Still Clashing Over Car Collision: Representatives from the Occupy DC movement are planning on holding a press conference this afternoon, at which demonstrators will call for a “proper investigation” of Friday night’s incident involving a driver who struck three people. The group then plans on marching to police headquarters. The Occupy media team says that a “previously unheard-from victim will attend”; the incident has sparked the first real clash between the city’s police force and the Occupy protesters since the protest began in Washington.
Elsewhere in Protests: Thousands of people came to the White House yesterday to participate in a demonstration against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. (You may recall actress Daryl Hannah, along with dozens of other people, being arrested in a similar protest earlier this year.) According to the Post, the protesters “formed a chain that began at Lafayette Square and stretched south on 15th Street, across the Ellipse, and north on 17th Street next to the Old Executive Office Building,” then marched with Occupy DC demonstrators through downtown.
Briefly Noted: Fascinating story about the battle over a group home for longtime D.C. peace advocates…Leslie Johnson’s replacement, Derrick Leon Davis, to be sworn in today…Silver Spring parents would like their kids to be far less horny during school dances…Virginia votes tomorrow…Missing Silver Spring man found dead, believed to be homicide…Chesapeake Bay “dead zones” getting smaller…Metro “dead zones” getting worse…There’s seemingly no end to the mundane things which annoy people in Fairfax to the point of litigation…”Everyone who has spent two decades in the Redskin coal mine gets to choose his own time and place to heave down the pickax and scream into the darkness, ‘When does this eon of bad football end?’“
This Day in DCist: In which both a television program and the New York Times put forth inane stereotypes about the District; but, hey, we have really good kimchee!