D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine offers to seal arrest records of over 200 BLM protesters
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District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is offering to seal the arrest records of more than 200 protesters accused of violating curfew in D.C. during last summer's protests over the murder of George Floyd.
Racine has been sending letters to individuals who are eligible for relief, notifying them that his office won't prosecute them and will request a judge seal their arrest record if they respond. Sealing the record would allow individuals who were arrested to keep the records from view by the general public. Hundreds of protesters were arrested in D.C. in June for violating curfew, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a citywide curfew effective May 31. Anyone outdoors for nonessential reasons could be arrested for curfew violation. While most of the protests were peaceful — there were incidents of looting, destruction of property and some police officers were injured.Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.