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RELIGION
An Alabama lawmaker
resigned from his job as
a church pastor after he
attended a KKK event. B2THE DISTRICT
Catholic University will
invite fewer students to
campus this fall because
of the pandemic. B4OBITUARIES
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two-term president of
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4-8 mphNew cases in region
Through 5 p.m. Friday, 2,222 new
coronavirus cases were reported in
the District, Maryland and Virginia,
bringing the total cases to
190,360.
D.C. MD.VA.
+69 +1,169+ 984
12,126 88,346 89,888Coronavirus-related deaths
As of 5 p.m. Friday:
D.C. MD.* VA.
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585 3,493 2,174* Includes probable covid-19 deaths“There is just so much more
information that was missing,”
said Joseph Caleb, the attorney for
the Young family. “The whole
point of this legislation was to act
as a means of transparency. But
the video that was released is not
transparent at all. In fact, it almost
seems that pieces were selectively
chosen, the opposite of transpar-
ency.”
Police said full-length videos of
two of the incidents will be put
online.
Kevin Donahue, the deputy
SEE VIDEOS ON B4lic after fatal shootings and in
other instances of deadly force by
police, an effort to increase ac-
countability. Authorities also
must identify officers involved in
fatal police interactions.
The law requires the release of
footage only from officers who are
directly involved in using force.
Attorneys for the families of two of
the men killed questioned why
police initially released short ver-
sions of the videos and why videos
from additional officers were not
made public to show varying per-
spectives.ston and Price have filed lawsuits
against D.C
The videos were released under
the provisions of an emergency
law passed in June by the D.C.
Council amid protests nationwide
following the death in police cus-
tody of George Floyd in Minneap-
olis. The law requires authorities
to make body camera footage pub-killed when it slammed into the
side of a police cruiser. Police said
the officer was suspended for fail-
ing to stop at a stop sign as he
entered an intersection.
Families of the three men who
were killed — D’Quan Young, 24,
Marqueese Alston, 22, and Jeffrey
Price, 22 — have disputed the po-
lice accounts. The families of Al-BY PETER HERMANN,
MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLER,
KEITH L. ALEXANDER
AND RACHEL CHASONAuthorities in the District made
public for the first time on Friday
videos from police body cameras
and surveillance cameras of two
separate fatal shootings by officers
in 2018, and said those cases were
ruled justified in the use of deadly
force.
Officials also released video
from another incident in 2018 in
which a man on a dirt bike wasD.C. releases footage in 3 police-involved deaths
VIDEOS MADE PUBLIC UNDER NEW LAW
Two shootings, one traffic crash, all from 2018
BY FENIT NIRAPPIL
AND DANA HEDGPETHD.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
(D) said Friday that people plan-
ning to attend an August rally for
racial justice should follow the
District’s guidance for travelers,
including a self-quarantine order
for visitors from coronavirus hot
spots.
The mayor’s order, which went
into effect Monday, requires a 14-
day self-quarantine for anyone
coming into Washington after
“nonessential activities” in one of
27 states considered high risk. The
order is in effect through the fall,
but Bowser has signaled she could
relax it.
“If we have a quarantine order
still in effect, I have to emphasize
that no one should look at the
quarantine order as a punish-
ment, okay?” Bowser said. “People
who are making personal deci-
sions to travel, or other activity for
that matter, have to consider how
it impacts other people.”
City officials have acknowl-
edged that authorities would not
be able to widely enforce the order,
although anyone who “willfully
violates” it can be charged with a
misdemeanor and fined up to
$1,000.
The Aug. 28 rally, organized by
the Rev. Al Sharpton, aims to bring
100,000 people to the nation’s cap-
ital on the anniversary of the
March on Washington. It would be
the largest mass gathering in the
city while coronavirus cases have
been on the rise.
Asked whether she would dis-
courage people from gathering for
the rally as she did with Fourth of
July festivities, Bowser said she
would “consider what the health
metrics suggest closer to that
time.”
Prince George’s County Execu-
tive Angela D. Alsobrooks said
late Friday that the county’s ris-
ing caseload prompted her to
limit crowd sizes in most instanc-
es — including social, religious
and recreational events — from
SEE REGION ON B2Travel
order
applies to
D.C. rally
Mayor: Attendees at Aug.
racial-justice event may
have to self-quarantineBY JUSTIN GEORGEA trade group representing
American steelworkers and U.S.
manufacturers accused Metro of
sidestepping a “Buy America”
clause attached to hundreds of
millions in annual federal fund-
ing as it searches for a builder for
its next series of rail cars, a deal
that could be worth $1 billion.
The Alliance for American
Manufacturing sent a letter to
Metro board members on Thurs-
day decrying the transit agency’s
use of what it termed an “ac-
counting gimmick” to avoid fed-
eral requirements that 70 per-cent of the cost of components
that go into Metro’s 8000 Series
rail cars and final assembly stay
in the United States.
The alliance said avoiding the
provision, which is tied to about
$460 million Metro receives each
year for capital projects from the
U.S. Department of Transporta-
tion, is especially egregious withunemployment at 11 percent and
as Metro survives off a nearly
$800 million bailout from the
federal Cares Act while seeking
millions more in another stimu-
lus.
“[Metro] survives on those tax
dollars, and in this time of crisis
[Metro] should do its part to
support domestic manufactur-
ers, American workers, and the
communities they sustain,” Scott
N. Paul, president of the Alliance
for American Manufacturing,
wrote in the letter. “We urge you
to immediately stop the egre-
gious outsourcing of the public
SEE METRO ON B3Group: Metro e vades ‘Buy America’
Clause is attached to
U.S. funding as agency
looks for rail-car builderBY KATIE METTLERWith his arms raised,
Landover Hills Police Chief Rob-
ert Liberati slowly walked
toward the woman in front of
him as she pointed a green laser
at his shins and yelled, “Bola!
Bola!” When she fired the device
in her hand, it let out the boom of
a gunshot. But instead of bullets,
it discharged Kevlar wires outfit-
ted with hooks that wrapped
around the chief’s ankles like a
lasso.
“It has taken away his legs,
effectively making him immo-
bile,” said Richard Ross, the for-mer commissioner of the Phila-
delphia Police Department, who
traveled to Maryland in July to
offer a demonstration of the Spi-
der-Man-like gadget. Ross, a con-
sultant for the company that
produces the device, said it could
“change what we do in policing
for years to come.”
Called a BolaWrap, the deviceis being marketed to depart-
ments around the world as a
nonlethal tool for law enforce-
ment to use when trying to detain
people who are not complying
with commands — especially
those who may be experiencing a
mental health crisis or who are
under the influence of drugs or
alcohol. It fills the gap, BolaWrap
representatives say, for an officer
deciding whether to approach
someone or use a potentially
lethal weapon.
“This is not the be-all and
end-all, but in the use-of-force
spectrum, you’re kind of between
SEE DEVICE ON B4Device marketed as a new police tool
BolaWrap is touted as
a way to detain suspects,
but not everyone is soldRETROPOLISMICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POSTBY MICHAEL E. RUANEIn April 1835, an elegant new
vessel entered the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal at Dam No. 5 and
descended about six miles to the
boat basin at Williamsport, Md.
It was the Lady Washington, a
“handsomely decorated and
‘trim built’ craft,” the local news-
paper said, with a cabin roof that
was painted red and white.
It was the “first regularly
formed boat” on the canal —
probably made of white oak and
yellow pine, with its name prom-
inently displayed, and a cargo
hold that could carry 800 barrels
of flour all the way to George-
town.Now, 185 years after the Lady
Washington made headlines,
and nine years after the C&O
Canal in Georgetown last had a
boat, craftsmen are building a
new one for the legendary body
of water that helped define an
era.
For the moment, the unnamed
vessel sits in two pieces in side-
by-side work buildings on Lynch
Cove, off Bear Creek, in Dundalk,
Md. They resemble the halves of
a huge bathtub, but when bolted
together at the Roudebush Yacht
and Engine Works there, they
will form the hull of an 80-foot-
long canal boat.
Once finished, the 18-ton craft
will still be pulled by mules, as
were canal boats of old, but will
be outfitted with small electric
motors for trips when the mules
are not required.
And instead of oak and pine,
SEE RETROPOLIS ON B6Georgetown’s canal boats, revived
Modernized vessel set
to sail t he C&O Canal
i n 2021 — with mulesLIBRARY OF CONGRESS
TOP: Workers are building a canal boat in two sections in Dundalk, Md.
ABOVE: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal around 1900.