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Some Go By the Book; Others Follow Their Conscience
Sylvia Taylor, 15, left, of Kent, Ohio, and her mother, Sheri Leafgran, find common ground during the protest. Leafgran said she feels a sense of hopelessness in the nation.
(By Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post)
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Over there since July, in the 2nd Battalion. He's 19 and the latest in a long line of family members to choose military service.
In fact, she said, she has had a relative in every U.S. war since the Revolution. While she was in elementary school, two brothers enlisted and went to Vietnam.
She marched with her mother against that war.
-- Susan Levine
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Eyes on Their Brethren
Kesha Taylor and Melanie Deggins came ready for a fight, or at least to record one.
They were among 11 city employees dispatched by the Office of Police Complaints with voice recorders, notebooks and digital cameras -- to make sure, Taylor said, "that people could protest freely and get help from police if they need it."
After protests in 2002, the District paid $425,000 to seven people caught up in a mass arrest in Pershing Park -- costly punishment for a court's determination that their civil rights had been violated.
This time, officials decided to do what the peaceniks have always done: dog the police and document any bad behavior with an eye to preventing it next time.
