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TexasTowelie

(112,161 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:23 AM Aug 2017

Shocking Racist Incident At Capitol Hill Pool Stuns Community

WASHINGTON, DC — As white supremacists battled Charlottesville locals over the weekend, another disturbing racial incident reportedly happened at a pool on Capitol Hill near Eastern Market.

DCist reports that on Sunday at William H. Rumsey Aquatic Center, located at 635 North Carolina Avenue SE, a man with a swastika tattoo on his abdomen entered the pool and called the lifeguard a racial slur, "and a brawl ensued."

"The other swimmers I spoke to said there was blood and they broke the glass at the lifeguard stand," said one reader quoted by DCist. "I saw the white supremacist with the swastika tattoo sitting on the sidewalk in front of the pool being interviewed by three DC police with my own eyes."

One local resident who visited the pool described the incident in graphic detail on Facebook saying that man called the lifeguard the N-word. Those posts have since been deleted.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/shocking-racist-incident-capitol-hill-pool-stuns-community

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Shocking Racist Incident At Capitol Hill Pool Stuns Community (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Heard about this earlier, but didn't hear what he called the lifeguard... TreasonousBastard Aug 2017 #1

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Heard about this earlier, but didn't hear what he called the lifeguard...
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 12:34 AM
Aug 2017

He was looking to start trouble? The lifeguard got into his face over the tat? Another rude tat?

These bottomfish are really getting out of hand.

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