Well, This Ought to Make Heads Explode All Across D.C. - Stephen Green

There probably isn't a bright red line or some official metric a city must measure up to — down to? — before being rated as Officially Ungovernable.

But, if there is, surely Washington, D.C., crossed soon after the Martyrdom of St. George Floyd of Minneapolis.

• "This is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing," one D.C. resident told the Washington Post on Sunday. 
• But — and I'm not making this up, so I'll quote WaPo reporters Olivia George, John D. Harden, and Jenny Gathright precisely — the resident who told them the city was safe was "speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety."

The mostly peaceful gang members tend toward violence when they hear you say they might not always be peaceful, I suppose...