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A 12-year-old black girl walking home from school. Gay pals leaving a bar. A Trump family friend watching TV. A Muslim veteran driving to work.
The girl had tutoring after class that day, so she was alone as she left Alice Deal Middle School and began walking the mile to her apartment.
“Mommy,” the 12-year-old said on her cellphone. “I’m on my way home.”
But as the black seventh-grader turned down a quiet street in Northwest Washington, she said, she noticed a white man watching her. When he began walking her way, the girl crossed to the other side of the road. She had just ducked under the low bough of a magnolia tree when she heard something behind her.
As she turned, the man lunged at her, she recalled.
The girl fell on her back in a stranger’s front yard, screaming as the man pinned her down.
“Shut the f— up, n—–,” he said, according to a police report.
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