An interesting quote from a D.C. citizen in a Washington Post story on our city’s state of siege — roads blocks and checkpoints like the Berlin Wall:
Standing outside Union Station and waiting for a Metro bus, Juanita Carey noted that the federal government has not rushed in to secure her against the drugs and gunfire she said plague her neighborhood near Central Avenue and the Prince George’s County border in Southeast.
“When we need help, we don’t get” any, said the 42-year-old pharmacy worker.