Outnumbered cops struggled to maintain order on streets

By Scott McCabe

Published April 4, 2008 4:00am ET

D.C. police Sgt. Ron Winters was there at the beginning of the Washington riots.

But he and the other 3,100 police officers were ill equipped to stop the violence that still scars the city.

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