The Washington Post  reported this week that a woman with a baby was attacked in Georgetown as she was putting her little girl into her car seat, and narrowly escaped.

District police are searching for a group of teenagers who they said attacked a woman and her child in their sport utility vehicle in Georgetown earlier this week and smashed the sun roof with a rock.

The incident occurred about 10:30 a.m. near Wisconsin Avenue and Q Street Northwest, near the Georgetown Library and moments after the woman had strapped her daughter into a car seat after the child’s morning music class.

The victim gave a first-person account of the attack on a neighborhood Internet newsletter, and D.C. police confirmed the Monday incident on the department’s Internet mailing list.

While The Washington Post says that the police had no description of the assailants, Metro Police Commander, Melvin Gresham, confirmed the report, and the first sentence of his report mentions that the assailants were “black teens” the The Daily Caller reports.

Further from The Washington Post:

The victim said she had just buckled her child into the seat and was digging around a diaper bag looking for snacks when she said “a group of what seemed to be teenagers” were “rushing up on me, trying to surround us and our SUV.” She said she slammed the car door shut and locked and raced around to the driver’s side. She got in and locked that door as well.

There was still one door unlocked. “By some miracle I was able to jump into the other side of the car, again locking it behind me and evade one of the teens as he tried to get into the car,” the woman wrote. “As I tried to get out of the parking spot and get away from them, one grabbed what seemed to be a large rock and jumped up on the car and smashed it through my sun roof.”

Gresham confirmed that “one of the subjects jumped on the running board of the victim’s vehicle and smashed the window of the vehicle’s sun roof with a large rock.”

Fortunately, the woman was able to drive away to safety.

The Daily Caller has also reported that there has been a “Crime Spree on Capitol Hill”:

A group of roughly 40 Capitol Hill residents gathered Friday morning at a local coffee shop to discuss the recent surge of violence in the area. As the meeting kicked off, another shooting occurred just two blocks away ….

The meeting, and most recent shooting, came on the heels of what some calling the “Reign of Terror” that occurred Wednesday night. Five people were mugged in the neighborhood within 30 minutes, and now people are calling for a larger police presence.

“This is 100 percent unacceptable,” D.C. Councilman Charles Allen, who represents the Capitol Hill area, told the crowd. “I’ve got some neighbors that are very frustrated, and some are very scared.”

calling it a “Strange New Mugging Trend”:

Muggers near the United States Capitol robbed five different people within thirty minutes Wednesday night, building on a recent trend that has taken hold of the neighborhood.

It sounds as if a new crime wave has come to Washington DC. Is it related to the Black Lives Matter movement; are criminals emboldened by their recent attacks on whites on college campuses?