As their former council member is set to be sentenced in federal court Thursday, the District’s Ward 5 residents are split among those who forgive Harry Thomas Jr. and those who don’t.

Bob King, the longest-serving advisory neighborhood commissioner in the city and a Ward 5 resident, said the split tends to fall along racial and age lines.

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