Mount Pleasant

This guide to Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C. opens on a Cinco de Mayo afternoon in 1991, when a street party full of music and pupusa stands turned into an arrest attempt by a rookie police officer against a young dishwasher named Daniel Enrique Gomez. You'll hear the neighborhood's own layered history — Salvadoran, Vietnamese, Black and white Washingtonians sharing the same rowhouse blocks — and the conflicting accounts bystanders gave of what happened next. Listen for the ordinary storefronts and awnings along the street today, unchanged from that afternoon.