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Some cool smoking crack cocaine images:

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This represents the arrest of Former Mayor Marion Barry at the Wyndam Hote for smoking crack cocaine with a call girl where he uttered the now famous phrase "the bitch set me up">

Site of former DC Mayor Marion Barry’s 1990 cocaine arrest

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DC Mayor Marion Barry was captured on a surveillance camera smoking crack cocaine during a sting operation by the FBI and D.C. Police.On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, Hazel "Rasheeda" Moore, in a sting operation at the former Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession. The incident – played over and over on television – produced what is perhaps the most memorable quote of Barry’s long career: "Goddamn setup . . . I’ll be goddamn . bitch set me up." This quote refers to Rasheeda Moore.

Barry was charged with three counts of felony perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine; however, in October 1990, he was convicted on only one charge: a single previous misdemeanor count of possessing cocaine which occurred during November of 1989. He was acquitted on one possession charge and a mistrial was declared on the 12 remaining charges.

As a result of his arrest and the ensuing trial, Barry was forced to step down from his position as mayor. In the midst of his campaign for a city council seat, Barry was sentenced to a six-month federal prison term in October 1990.