The Same Corrupt City that Re-Elected Crackhead Mayor Marion Barry After Leaving Prison Now Wants to Become 51st State
Marion Barry smoking crack, screenshot from FBI surveillance video footage in 1990.
On January 18, 1990, Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry was arrested and charged with charged with drug possession and the use of crack, a crystalline form of cocaine.
According to History.com:
At the Vista International Hotel in downtown Washington, Barry was caught smoking the substance on camera with Rahsheeda Moore, a woman who had agreed to set up Barry in exchange for a reduced sentence in an earlier drug conviction.
During the videotaped arrest, Barry said of Moore, “Bitch set me up…I shouldn’t have come up here…goddamn bitch.”
Barry was sentenced to six months in federal prison shortly before the November election and lost the race in 1990.
