Sharon Pratt

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It’s difficult for me to watch riots ravaging London. As a former mayor of a capital when it was caught in the throes of senseless violence, I know how powerless people in charge can be.

On May 5, 1991, two police officers reprimanded a 30-year-old Salvadoran man in the District’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood for disorderly conduct and requested that he dispose of the open container he was carrying. By all accounts, he was drunk, and a ruckus ensued. By the time the fight ended, the man had been shot by a rookie police officer.

Events quickly spiraled out of control. While Police Chief Ike Fulwood and I hoped that as people absorbed the facts that night, they would grasp that the officer had responded appropriately to a perceived threat.…  Seguir leyendo »