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Man arrested after pistol-whipping Metrobus driver, police say

By Thomas Robertson

A man has been arrested after he allegedly pistol-whipped a Metrobus driver in D.C. on Tuesday night.

Metro police said it happened around 10:30 p.m. on a Metrobus near the Southern Avenue Metro Station in Southeast.

The man got on the bus with a handgun drawn, and police said he pistol-whipped the bus driver several times.

The driver made it off the bus and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Metro police caught the man and recovered his handgun shortly after the incident.

Beyond Chinatown: Researching Asian American and Pacific Islander spaces in DC

By Abigail Constantino
The paifang outside the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station, officially called Friendship Archway, is the most prominent symbol of the Asian American presence in D.C. But a lot of other, more hidden places had a historical significance to Chinese and Koreans in the District, and a research project is underway to mark them. It’s called a historic context statement, and it hopes to provide a framework for evaluating sites for their importance to the story of Asian Americans in D.C. It's the first-ever historic context statement on Asian Americans in the District, and also the first major study that’s been done on Asian Americans within historic preservation in D.C., said Sojin Kim, a senior consultant of the project, who also serves on the board of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation.
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