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Location: John McCormack Dr NE DC (Catholic Univerisity/Brookland Metro Station) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Around 5:30 PM, I was walking up John McCormack St. NE from CUA Brookland Metro towards CUA law. I saw a group of teenagers (appx. 16 years old) walking towards me, about 6-7 of them, and I got nervous when they […]

Location: Bus stop at University Blvd. and Piney Branch Ave; inbound to Silver Spring, Maryland Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I’ve been harassed a few times on WMATA, but there’s only one time that I went home and cried afterward. I was coming back from the grocery store when a man started to talk to me. I initially didn’t […]

Location: Georgia Ave and Wayne Ave (Silver Spring, MD) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was walking to an appointment and passing by two men sitting on a bench. I nodded to them and made eye contact like I usually do. As I walked past, one of them said, “Hey, how you doing, sexy?” I didn’t respond […]

Location: Escalators at Metro Center Metro Station Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) My ass was grabbed—hard—on a metro escalator as I was walking up on the left. When I turned around to see who it was, there was a group of 3-4 teen boys giggling about it. Two grown men were ahead of me on the escalator and LAUGHED […]

Location: 9th & Rhode Island Ave. NW (Shaw) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I had an incident that happened last Thursday around 8:15 pm. I was walking east on Rhode Island and was almost to 9th street when I saw a man quickly approaching from behind. Something seemed off, so I ran across Rhode Island to give myself some distance. […]