Washington City Paper
The Mount Pleasant Uprising, 30 Years Later
Days of unrest followed the shooting of a Salvadoran man at 17th and Lamont streets NW on May 5, 1991.
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Angela Jewell, shot
Daniel Enrique Gomez, a Salvadoran resident. Accounts of what preceded the shooting vary—some say Gomez moved toward Jewell while holding a knife, while other eyewitnesses say Gomez was handcuffed when Jewell fired. The altercation prompted days of tension and violence between Latinx residents and law enforcement, and Mayor