DC Mayor Bowser claims only ‘one night of rioting’ in city last summer 6/22/2021

On 6/22/2021, in a hearing on Washington, D.C’s proposed statehood., Johnson pressed Bowser to provide a figure in estimated property damage in D.C. that occurred during what he described as the “summer rioting” last year.

“I know that we had one night of rioting in the district in the summer,” Bowser said. She added that Washington had “dozens of people arrested over the last year.”

He asked Bowser if authorities under her jurisdiction used geolocation tools to find and arrest people who participated in violent behavior last summer.