The 1989 DC Prostitute Expulsion was the attempted forced removal of a group of suspected sex workers in Washington, D.C., by members of the D.C. police in the early morning of July 25, 1989.
[1] On the front page of The Washington Post the next day, Dedman and Goldberg recounted the events: District police have started a new push on prostitution -- all the way to Virginia.
The angry line of women, many of whom were dressed in leather miniskirts and brightly colored tube tops, ambled 1.4 miles down the left lane of 14th Street, through the business district and across the Mall, grumbling and carrying their spiked-heel shoes all the way.
Congressman Stanford Parris, who represented Virginia's 8th congressional district, complained "We get all the sludge, all the garbage, most of the prisoners, and now their prostitutes."
[5] In an editorial, The Washington Post lamented, "It is a demeaning spectacle to have human beings herded like cattle in the middle of the night.