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Police: DC man charged with assaulting police officer

WASHINGTON — A D.C. man was arrested Sunday and charged with assaulting a police officer while armed. Officers responded to a report of a burglary and domestic dispute around the 800 block of 8th Street around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Police saw 34-year-old Kevin Talley, of Northeast D.C., waving a BB gun on the street. Police say they told Talley several times to drop the weapon. Talley pointed the BB gun at the officers. Police shot him, and Talley was transported to the hospital with critical injuries. No pedestrians or officers were injured during Saturday’s incident. This is an ongoing investigation. The two officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, as is customary for police-involved shootings during investigations, according to police. The footage from the officers’ body cameras is under review.

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Below is a map of the area of the incident. [google_map latitude=”38.900764″ longitude=” -76.994807″ zoom=”13″ height=”300px” location_label=”H Street NE shooting – 12/30/2017″] WTOP’s Andrea Cambron contributed to this report. 

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.
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