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Posters reading "Thou Shalt Not Kill" will be distributed in the Anacostia section of the District Tuesday in response to the city's 203 homicides last year. (Courtesy of Phillip Pannell, used with permission)
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First lady Melania Trump, center, reads Christmas cards written by children of military families, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, during a Toys for Tots event at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran, pauses in front of a Surface to Air Missile (Sayyad 2C) at the Iranian Materiel Display (IMD) at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **
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D.C. police said Wednesday a man accused of murder in a deadly shooting near the waterfront escaped police custody at a city hospital. (Associated Press file photo) **FILE**
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Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran, walks past fragments of Iranian short range ballistic missiles (Qiam) at the Iranian Materiel Display (IMD) at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in Washington, Thursday Nov. 29, 2018. The Trump administration accused Iran of stepping up violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports by sending rockets and other weaponry to rebels in Afghanistan and Yemen. The presentation displays weapons and fragments of weapons seized in Afghanistan, Bahrain and Yemen that it said are evidence Iran is a "grave and escalating threat" that must be stopped. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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The Naval Yard Complex along the Anacostia River in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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The gate for the Anacostia-Bolling joint military base in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, where mail for the White House is sorted. In a capital city on edge, letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased a stream of reports Wednesday of other suspicious-looking items sent to senators in Washington and beyond. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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"We're looking forward to all of the benefits the Anacostia Tunnel is going to bring to the river ... and everyone who uses it." said Pamela Mooring, external communications manager for the DC Water authority. (The Washington Times/File)
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Students change classes at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington on Wednesday. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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Trash piles up along the Anacostia River in the District on Thursday. D.C. Council member Tommy Wells has a proposal to charge shoppers 5 cents for each plastic and paper bag to help pay for cleanup. (Associated Press/File)
