Amid Metro brawl, family's night out turns into 'pandemonium'
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Metro passenger Chris Davis suffered a broken shin during the brawl Friday at L'Enfant Plaza Station. (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 9, 2010
It was bad enough when Kimberly Hay's family, riding the Metro to the Kennedy Center on Friday night to watch "Mary Poppins," saw three youths assault a terrified young rider reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by aiming an aerosol can at his face and spraying.
But the brawl they witnessed on the way home several hours later, which involved at least 70 youths fighting each other in a frenzy, left Hay's nieces "freaked out" and the 43-year-old wary of riding the Metro in off-peak hours.
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