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Washington city, District of Columbia – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) pop 2000 [19] Pop 2010 [20] Pop 2020 ...
Eight people were killed, six of whom were Asian women. A suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, was taken into custody later that day. [124] Several anti-Asian violence rallies have been held across the United States in 2021 in response to the recent rise of racism against Asian Americans. Several of the rallies are named "Stop Asian Hate".
March 3, 1913: Woman Suffrage Procession: Between 5,000 and 10,000 people marched through Washington, D. C. in support of the women's suffrage movement.Organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and sponsored by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it turned violent when onlookers attacked the suffragists.
Notably, civil liberties organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have labeled racial profiling as a form of discrimination, stating, "Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or on any other particular identity undermines the basic human rights and freedoms to which every person is entitled." [38]
The population of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the district as of July 2019 is 79,477, 11.3% of its population. [5] If treated as a category separate from race, Hispanics are the third largest minority group in DC.
At least 19 people have been killed in relation to the 2020–2023 United States racial unrest. List. Indicates the person was killed by law enforcement officers
Pages in category "People murdered in Washington, D.C." The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As of 2013 about 20% of the DC-sentenced prisoners were incarcerated over 500 miles (800 km) from Washington, D.C. [52] Rivers Correctional Institution, a private prison in North Carolina, was purpose-built to house D.C. inmates. As of 2007, about 66% of the prisoners were DC-sentenced inmates. [51]