ABSTRACT
In the summer of 2010, Washington, DC was seemingly beset by youth violence, particularly on the securitized spaces of the DC Metro. In the breathless prose that has become common in news of youth violence, the Washington Post reported:
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.” … 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.
(Strauss & Lucas, 2010)