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: L’Enfant Metro Station, waiting for the orange line Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Today I was assaulted at L’Enfant metro station while waiting for an orange train for the second time this year. The platform there is dark and cramped and overrun with the large number of construction projects down there and now also the addition […]
We were deeply saddened this week to read the news of a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by a UberDC driver. According to media reports and court documents, an UberDC driver was arrested Saturday on a sexual abuse charge after a woman reported the assault to police last month. We hope this tragedy will help Uber […]
Location: Alabama and 32nd SE Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking home from the bus stop when a man started yelling at me from his car. I ignored him and kept walking. He then pulled his car into the side street to block my path. I think he was saying something along the lines of “You’re too […]
Location: Mount Rainier; Bunker Hill Rd. between 33nd and 32nd St. (Maryland) Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) On July 8th at approximately 6:05 a.m., I was jogging west on Bunker Hill Rd. in Mount Rainier between the cross streets of 33rd and 32nd Streets. A Metro Access van pulled over to the curb and the driver yelled […]