Former Department of Government Efficiency staffer Edward Coristine was badly beaten by a group of teenagers during an attempted carjacking in Washington D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood in the early morning hours of August 3. The 19-year-old software engineer got a broken nose and concussion after being attacked by about 10 young people at around 3 a.m. while walking a female friend to her car.
Coristine said the situation got worse quickly when the group of teenagers showed up across the street and started shouting at him and his friend. Knowing they were in danger, he rushed his friend into the driver’s seat where she locked herself inside the car before the attackers came closer. Police reports say the suspects talked about taking the car before they started attacking him.
