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Four former governors will
advise Gov.-elect Glenn
Youngkin (R) as he
prepares to take office. B6MARYLAND
A redistricting panel drafts
a map that could oust the
state’s lone GOP member
of Congress. B8OBITUARIES
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7-14 mphBY TOM JACKMANA New Jersey gym owner who
punched a D.C. police officer out-
side the Capitol on Jan. 6 was
sentenced Wednesday to 41
months in prison by a federal
judge who called his actions “an
affront to society and to the law”
and said he was smart to plead
guilty rather than take his
chances with a jury that would see
numerous videos of his actions.
Scott Kevin Fairlamb, 44, was
captured on videos screaming
profanely in support of the pro-
Trump insurrection, climbing on
the inauguration scaffolding out-
side the Capitol, and then pushing
an officer into a group of people
and punching the officer’s face
shield, as well as briefly entering
and exiting the Capitol, according
to court filings and footage played
in court. Fairlamb trained as a
mixed martial arts fighter and
was a bar bouncer in New Jersey
with two prior assault convic-
tions.
The sentence of 41 months is
the stiffest yet handed down to a
Capitol rioter. Of the 126 people
who have pleaded guilty so far,
only 16 have admitted to felonies,
and Fairlamb is the third felon to
be sentenced. The other two fel-
ons, who were not accused of vio-
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for Jan. 6
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push to help
LGBTQ vets
get services
The party Tomás
Banks attended
occurred more
than three
decades ago, and
while time has
smudged some of
his memories of
that day, he hasn’t
forgotten the birthday card he
handed a friend.
In it, Banks had scribbled a
generic but generous, “Love
always.”
Two words. That’s all that sat
above his name. And that’s all it
took, as Banks tells it, to land him
in front of military police officers.
At the time, he and that man
were both serving in the U.S. Air
Force and shared some of the
same friends, men who
sometimes met at a gay
nightclub, despite knowing they
could receive a dishonorable
discharge if caught. After the
recipient of the birthday card
came under investigation, Banks
was called in for questioning.
What exactly did he mean by
“love always”?
Banks is now 54 and openly
gay, but at the time, he was 21 and
knew better than to say anything.
SEE VARGAS ON B3Theresa
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new coronavirus cases were
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the District, bringing the total
number of cases in the region to
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t was cold and raining that afternoon,
and officials had spread sand on the
gangway so the sailors carrying the
precious casket off the ship wouldn’t
slip.
On the dock at the Washington Navy Yard,
VIPs stood at attention, awaiting the return
of America’s unknown soldier. The USS
Olympia, which had carried the body from
France, rang out eight bells — a traditional
salute to the fallen.
A band began Chopin’s funeral march, and
a team of six black horses hitched to an
empty caisson waited for its cargo.
As the cameras rolled, Gen. John J. Persh-
ing, who had led the American troops during
World War I, stood bundled in his Army coat.
Gen. John. A. Lejeune, the Marine Corps
commandant, raised his hand in salute.
Secretary of War John W. Weeks took off his
top hat, baring his bald head in the weather.
On Nov. 9, 1921, the anonymous “dough-
SEE TOMB ON B2J. WELLES HENDERSON RESEARCH CENTERRETROPOLISa century ago,
borne to his tomb
In 1921, cameras filmed fi rst i nterment at Arlington m emorial to unknown troops
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TOP: Generals and other officials watch as eight service members
carry the casket with the remains of the unknown soldier at the
Washington Navy Yard, o n Nov. 9, 1921. ABOVE: Visitors prepare
to leave flowers at the Tomb of the Unknowns. This year marks the
100th anniversary of the first soldier’s interment.BY EMILY DAVIESThe D.C. Department of Cor-
rections and the U.S. Marshals
Service signed an agreement
Tuesday night, saying they will
work together to improve condi-
tions at the D.C. jail after a sur-
prise inspection last month
turned up “systemic failures” and
poor treatment of detainees.
The agreement adds a repre-
sentative from the Marshals Serv-
ice to an oversight and manage-
ment team that the city formed
last week to launch a formal
review of the D.C. jail. The Mar-
shals Service liaison is tasked
with monitoring the implementa-
tion of “corrective action plans”
developed by the D.C. Depart-
ment of Corrections (DOC), ac-
cording to the memorandum of
understanding first revealed by
the city’s deputy mayor for public
safety and justice during a com-
mittee hearing Wednesday.
The agreement is the latest in a
series of steps to address deficien-
cies at the D.C. jail since Nov. 1,
when the Marshals Service sent a
letter to the DOC detailing mis-
treatment of detainees and an-
nouncing plans to transfer about
400 facing federal charges to a
prison in Lewisburg, Pa. The let-
ter described the punitive denial
of food and water and unsanitary
living conditions at the jail.
SEE JAIL ON B5Agencies
sign deal to
fix D.C. jail
problems
U.S. MARSHALS TO
MONITOR OVERHAUL‘Systemic failures’ led to
transfer plan for inmatesBY JUSTIN GEORGEMetro is facing a second inves-
tigation into circumstances that
led to the suspension of more
than half its rail cars as two
inspectors general seek to deter-
mine why a known safety defect
wasn’t properly reported and
why passengers were allowed to
ride on potentially unsafe trains,
according to interviews and doc-
uments.
The Office of the Inspector
General for the U.S. Department
of Transportation and its coun-
terpart within Metro are con-
ducting the joint investigation to
determine why the malfunctions
sidelining all 748 of Metro’s
7000-series rail cars were not
resolved sooner, according to
correspondence from the investi-
gation obtained by The Washing-
ton Post. The suspension created
a severe train shortage that has
significantly reduced Metrorail
service for more than three
weeks.
The joint probe is the latest
development in a crisis that has
forced Metro to contend with a
federal safety investigation and
depressed service levels, while
shifting focus away from luring
back riders during the pandemic.
The National Transportation
Safety Board is simultaneously
leading a separate probe into
what caused a derailment last
month of a train with a defect
SEE METRO ON B4Metro
faces probe
into defect
reporting
Inspectors general seek
insight on who knew
about wheelset issue‘QAnon Shaman’ s entencing
Jacob Chansley is seeking far
below t he f ederal guidelines. B5BY VALERIE STRAUSSA Maryland public school
teacher and Howard University
graduate on Wednesday was
named the winner of a global
teaching prize worth $1 million —
the biggest such award for educa-
tors in the world.
Keishia Thorpe, who teaches
12th-grade English at the Interna-
tional High School at Langley
Park, in the Prince George’s Coun-
ty public school system, received
the Global Teacher Prize at the
Paris headquarters of the United
Nations Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organization. Her
students mostly come from immi-
grant and refugee families.
Thorpe was awarded the honor
from a field of more than 8,000
educators from 121 countries,
many of whom work in impover-
ished and conflict-ravaged com-
munities.
“This is to encourage every lit-
tle Black boy and girl that looks
like me, and every child in the
world that feels marginalized and
has a story like mine, and felt they
never mattered,” Thorpe said
Wednesday after the announce-
ment was made by French actress
Isabelle Huppert.
In an interview afterward,
Thorpe said she would use the
money to expand projects she has
started to help disadvantaged stu-
dents attend college without debt
and to provide other services for
immigrant children and families.Students and staff at her Blad-
ensburg school watched the live
stream and began to shout when
they learned the news.
The Global Teacher Prize has
been awarded annually since
2015 by the London-based Varkey
Foundation — the philanthropic
arm of GEMS Education, a com-
pany that owns and operates pri-
vate K-12 GEMS schools in a
handful of countries, including
Egypt and the United Arab Emir-
ates — in partnership with UNES-
CO. The award has been dubbed
the “Nobel” of teaching, in an
effort to show the importance of
teaching in societies around the
world.
Thorpe was born and raised in
Jamaica by her grandmother, and
she and her identical twin sister,
Treisha Thorpe, won track-and-
field scholarships to attend col-
lege in the United States. Shegraduated from Howard in 2003
as a pre-law and English student.
She said in a recent interview
that she came to the United States
from an impoverished country
thinking, “Oh, my God, the land of
milk and honey.” But while tutor-
ing at night during college at a
D.C. charter school, Thorpe said,
she realized the inequity in the
U.S. public education system and
decided to skip law school and go
into teaching instead.
“I didn’t understand the Amer-
ican system and how it works, and
how some of the schools were
flourishing and some schools had
students who were not making
the grade. And so that really had
an impact on me,” she said.
Thorpe, who began teaching
more than 15 years ago, also co-
founded, along with her sister, the
nonprofit organization U.S. Elite
SEE TEACHER ON B4Pr. George’s teacher wins $1 million global prize
Woman has started
projects that help
disadvantaged students