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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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Wherever they went, little stirred. Still, at the White House, the Mall and Freedom Plaza, the women took notes. Twelve police cars at this corner. Two unmarked vehicles on that corner. Their ears perked up near the National World War II Memorial when a D.C. officer leaned out of his patrol car to tell a pedestrian crossing against a red light to step up the pace.
"What did he say?" asked Taylor, who is assistant chief inspector of the complaints office, before deciding that it didn't much matter.
Another couple of hours of more of the same, Taylor said they'd gotten exactly what they'd hoped for.
"We were hoping to see officers following procedures," she said.
-- Robert E. Pierre
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The Picture of Freedom
Limousine driver Mohamed Aly stood outside the Marriott Hotel on 14th Street NW, his camera phone held high to capture the crowd going by, still swelling in late afternoon.
Aly, who was born in Sudan, has lived in the United States for 15 years. He and his wife have a 9-month-old son, whose photograph is also stored on the camera phone.
Someday, he'll show yesterday's picture to the boy to show that he is "against people killing for no reason" -- and glad to be allowed to say so.
-- Susan Levine
