My earlier post on the Marion Barry robbery story links to the wrong article from The Washington Post. The article I’m talking about is a longer one by Del Quentin Wilber. Unfortunately, that article seems to be restricted to subscribers. But here are some key passages:

D.C. Council member and former mayor Marion Barry yesterday urged two young men who robbed him at gunpoint Monday night to turn themselves in to police, promising that he would urge authorities not to prosecute them.
“I have no animosities,” Barry declared. “I don’t even want you prosecuted, really. I love you. Give yourself up. Call the police. . . . I will do all I can to advocate non-prosecution.”
The thieves apparently knew that Barry (D-Ward 8) was a longtime community leader, a fact that he said made the crime “kind of hurt” because he is well respected by so many people in the city. Barry was not injured in the holdup.
“There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend,” Barry said at an afternoon news conference in which he described the robbery in detail. “I don’t advocate what they do. I advocate conditions to change what they do. I was a little hurt that this betrayal did happen.”
Monday’s episode began about 9 p.m. when Barry returned from shopping for groceries at a Safeway store in Southwest Washington. He parked outside his beige-brick apartment building in the 2600 block of Douglas Place SE, part of a neighborhood that police say has problems with drug dealing and burglaries but generally is not affected by the level of violence in harder-hit areas of Barry’s ward. The young men, whom Barry said he did not recognize, asked if they could help carry his bags upstairs.
“Mr. B, can we help you with your groceries?” Barry said one of the youths asked him.
Such requests are common, Barry said.
“When I go home in the evening or come out in the morning or weekend, the young people are all over me, asking for money, begging for money. ‘Give me a dollar. Give me five dollars,’ ” Barry said. “So I try to make a practice of making them work for what they get.”
Barry gave the young men several bags. After helping him, they asked if they could have some candy in a dish on a dining room table. He and the young men talked a bit. Barry then handed the two a few dollars and they left.
About 15 minutes later, they came back.
“I just let them in. That’s how we do it over there. At least that’s how I do it,” Barry said.
Once inside the apartment, one of the men pulled out “a gun and pointed it at my face and pushed me into the kitchen,” he said.
The assailants quickly fled with Barry’s wallet.