Rahul Dubey is the man at the center of what has been hailed as a heroic act in the press after a harrowing moment where protestors in Washington’s affluent Dupont Circle neighborhood were cornered into a side street and facing certain arrests and other crowd control tactics for being out past the 7 p.m. curfew on Monday (June 1).

As told to NPR, Dubey leaped into action and corralled the dozens of protestors into his residence and allowed them to stay overnight.

Even after Dubey was successful in getting in as many people inside his home, he says police pepper-sprayed his home in an attempt to rustle up the protestors for curfew violations.

But the story has taken an unfortunate turn of sorts after the landlord of Dubey’s Swann Street home, Steve Maviglio, who currently resides in Sacramento, Calif., seemingly tried to take the spotlight off Dubey’s act and made it about the potential loss of property, as reported by The Washington Post.

However, the larger story that remains intact is that Dubey helped save lives this past Praised For Sheltering Over 70 Washington, D.C. Protestors Overnight 

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