It was a summer night in 2004, and Rep. Bryan Steil, then a Hill staffer, was on his front porch in Adams Morgan when some men approached.
As Steil and his friends barbecued, the men pulled guns and robbed all in attendance, according to memories the Wisconsin Republican shared on Monday. It’s an incident Steil said he doesn’t talk about much. But it makes crime in D.C. more than just a political issue for the House Administration Committee chairman.
“You think about your safety differently after being a victim of a crime,” Steil said following an informational security briefing, which his committee hosted, on rising violent crime in the nation’s capital.
