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DC LGBT Community Marches To Protest Violence | Last night, hundreds took to the streets in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC to protest a recent surge in anti-LGBT violence. Just weeks prior to these incidents, the DC Trans Coalition chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for not taking sufficient steps to keep transgender people safe. The Washington Blade has a gallery of photos from the march and Boy in Bushwick provides the following two videos, featuring DC Police Chief Cathy Lenier, DC Councilmember Muriel Bowser, and the director of GLBT Affairs for the DC Mayor’s Office, Jeffrey Richardson:
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