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Last night (June 27) I was at the CVS on Columbia Pike in Arlington near the Drafthouse about 7:30. While I was in there, I noticed a WMATA employee wearing one of those bright yellow/orange vests staring at the woman in line in front of me waiting to check out. I didn’t pay it much […]

I got on the 96 bus heading West at U Street NW and 11 Street NW on Saturday, June 4, just before midnight. It was bus number 4299 (license plate B 37486). I didn’t get the driver’s name, but she was a black woman. As I got on, I noticed the bus driver and a […]

I have a general experience that I would like to share. It is in regards to metro employees. I would like to know why many metro employees are highly unprofessional. My experience has been that maybe metro male employees will not hesitate to harass, follow, and try to ‘holla’ at female passengers. Why is this […]

I was walking home from the Greenbelt metro station on the College Park side, when a Metro Access shuttle pulled along side of me. The driver mumbled something out of his window at me and when I asked him to repeat it, I still couldn’t hear him. He finally yelled, “Can I call you sometime?” […]

I’m submitting this as a witness, rather than a person at whom harassment was directed, and I’m looking for some input from the Hollaback community. (For context, I am a man.) I was taking the red line home from work and witnessed a man talking to/hitting on a woman who was clearly uncomfortable not interested. […]