‘”That level of fear and that level of helplessness that you feel, it doesn’t compare to anything else I’ve felt in my life,” Tim Young said.’Now imagine if it was the government pointing a gun at you and you are defenseless…
Tim Young was heading to one of D.C.’s newest hotspots—The Wharf—when his life changed.
He was walking down a well-lit section of M Street at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him—one of them had a gun.
“Terrified. You know, when I talk to people about this… you’re scared. There’s no man card involved. I was defenseless,” explained Young, who’s a political comedian and host of ‘No Things Considered’ at the D.C. Examiner. The men ran off with his cell phone.
by Dori Olmos