Location: 12th & F St NW (Metro Center)
Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm)

I was approached by the perpetrator and asked for money. I said no and he waited to make the comment, “I thought you were with a black man.” He then followed me [and my partner] 2 blocks to the corner off 12th & F st NW. We stopped for a light and he ran his hand between my ass cheeks. He was confronted by my partner and ran across the street.

Submitted 2/17/14 by “Julia R.”

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