The new memorial opened last week in Pershing Park after years of controversy.
The architect behind the winning design is a 25-year-old from Chicago.
The winner will be announced in January.
It stems from the mass arrests at Pershing Park in 2002.
UPDATE: The unidentified package was deemed non-threatening. The Metropolitan Police Department is reportedly investigating a suspicious package at the intersection of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near Pershing Park. According to DDOT, 14th Street is blocked to traffic in both directions from Pennsylvania Avenue to F Street NW.
The saga of the 2002 Pershing Park mass arrests goes on! Former D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey had little to say about the incident when he took the stand last week. (“I didn’t order anybody to destroy anything,” testified Ramsey last Thursday. Oh, really?) But Ron Harris, an attorney for the police during an investigation by the D.C. Council into the arrests, did have something interesting to confess: according to Fox 5, Harris admitted on…
Spencer S. Hsu has the details on the final settlement in the lawsuit stemming from the mass arrests in Pershing Park in 2002. Yesterday’s settlement will see the D.C. government pay another $8.25 million to around 400 people; a previous settlement of $13.7 million awarded in April for another similar incident in 2000 means that two Pershing Park arrests total the costliest total settlement ever paid by a city government in U.S. history. In addition…
Thanks to frequent Flickr contributor philliefan99 for dropping this heart-tugging video into our pool. These ducklings look they are just too little to hop over those big fountain steps in Pershing Park. All of them except for one, anyway. Spring in D.C. really brings an abundance of cute. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for these little guys!…
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…
Mary Cheh Yesterday, City Desk provided a juicy bit of news for late on a summer Friday: Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) seems to think that D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles ought to hit the road: “I think he should resign,” Cheh says. “I don’t think he should have ever been appointed…You start messing with a federal judge in a case where you are hiding evidence or destroying evidence—that’s gone to a new level.”…”This…
