Person reported pouring gasoline on canopy in park

Heard on: Washington DC District of Columbia Law Dispatch Group Calls

01:27

00:00

Dispatch to unit 316 and unit 314 .

00:03

You are to break your sector and respond to University Yard.

00:07

Be advised, received notification of a subject wearing shorts, long sleeve, brown gray hair.

00:15

Okay.

00:16

Radio says African American male possibly doused one of the canopies with gasoline.

00:21

Any units to respond to that location? He is now laying under a bench.

00:26

We're trying to search to find him right now.

00:27

This is a notification that has been received from dispatch.

00:31

Three one four, unit 416 .

00:34

Four four, show us out.

00:37

That's 1522 .

00:42

Two four to dispatch, ma'am.

00:43

Can you give me the location again?

00:46

It's going to be a university yard.

00:49

Again, we're going to have a black male with shaves, long sleeve gray long shirt.

00:54

He's heavy set with a hat and dark.

00:57

And he's supposed to be sleeping on one of the benches.

01:00

Unfortunately, cameras are not right now working for you, y'all.

01:03

We're trying to see if we can search the area.

01:11

All right.

01:18

We are (number withheld).

01:21

We do not have a visual.

01:22

We do not have a visual as the cameras of New York are not operational at this time.

7/22/2026 12:21 PM

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University Yard, Washington, DC 20052

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