Today was a wild day,
this is yet another police witness in the #J20 cases
who offered voluntary testimony
that helped the defense, and here an Officer Howden,
in from the seventh district, which is
notorious in Washington, DC for being the sort of epicenter of police brutality,
discussed how he.... well, so, there were several things that happened.
He made a voluntary characterization from the stand
about how Barry Farm, a black neighborhood in southeast DC,
is a place where, it's a "notorious" housing project where people attack police, is how he said it,
and then there was stuff that was captured on his bodycam from January 20th
where he talked about how he has practiced "herding" people, from his times policing Barry Farm.
So, you know, we really see that the MPD's record of brutality against black people in Washington, DC
had a direct bearing on how they treated J20 protesters.