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I was walking from the bus stop to my house, and I heard someone yelling. All of a sudden this man on a bike rode up behind me and yelled “Oh I wanna take a bite out of that,” and I jumped because I was so startled. He noticed and he slowed down and said […]

I was sitting on my front stoop reading my email on my phone, taking a break from my darling daughters who were inside coloring. I saw a twenty-something man cross the street in the middle of the block towards me, and asked me something like ‘hey, baby, wanna go out tonight?’ I responded simply, ‘no […]

Last night I was walking home alone at about 10:00pm along North Capitol Street in the Bloomingdale/Shaw neighborhood. Two men in their late teens or early 20s were walking towards me and another, older, man was walking in from of me and entering his house. As the two younger men walked past me, the one […]

At about 9:10 pm tonight, I was walking the dogs down V St towards Flagler NW. When I was about a third the way down the block, a thin young black man with long braids and a dark jacket crossed from the north to the south side of the street in front of me and […]

I was riding my bike down the sidewalk of the busy street and had to politely inform pedestrians of my presence so I could get by. As I was about to pass a guy who was walking oddly (likely drunk) I called, “Excuse me, on your left.” He turned around and let me go by, […]