I honestly don’t have much to add to this, but damn… it’s a great story. As the DC police advanced on protesters, he opened his home an let 70 of them shelter inside overnight. Even managed to get some pizza delivered for them.
Remember this man’s name.
Before I knew it, it had happened really quick. A couple people had sat on my steps. We were talking about where they were coming from and one person asked if they could charge their phone in my house. Another person asked if they could use the bathroom because we were all holed up for like 25 minutes.
Next thing I know it was like “Get back! Get back!” and I heard screams and shouts and some pops and fire. I saw pepper spray going everywhere. I flung open the door, and I grabbed the railing and started pushing people into my house. It was like a human tsunami of people that the cops were pushing into my street, and the overflow was coming into my house. I hadn’t seen anything like it. All I kept on yelling was “Get in! Get in!” I kept saying, “Get downstairs! Get upstairs!”
Meet Rahul Dubey (Esquire interview)