Another armed carjacking in DC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s kids or young adults who were raised with no morals. Lot’s of people in poverty do not commit crimes. Bad parenting is to blame.

This completely. Not all poor people are out there committing crimes. Many have their noses to the grindstone trying to raise families with good values. But there are a lot of single parent households in DC, and kids being born to parents who probably aren't fit to be parents. We need to be honest about this and actually have some punitive measure for parents too if their kids are acting out.

Once again, shifting blame to single Black mothers. This Eurocentric patriarchal model of family is pushed by white men on BIPOC. Just because your whole life you have enjoyed the privileges of your whiteness does not make your way the right way.

I think of that family, a Black woman who moved with her teenage son (nephew? grandson?) to Richmond to get him away from the crime in DC. When he returned to DC, he was killed on a metro platform. I can't remember all the details and I couldn't find the exact incident in a google search of teens killed on metro platforms. There were too many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s kids or young adults who were raised with no morals. Lot’s of people in poverty do not commit crimes. Bad parenting is to blame.

This completely. Not all poor people are out there committing crimes. Many have their noses to the grindstone trying to raise families with good values. But there are a lot of single parent households in DC, and kids being born to parents who probably aren't fit to be parents. We need to be honest about this and actually have some punitive measure for parents too if their kids are acting out.

Once again, shifting blame to single Black mothers. This Eurocentric patriarchal model of family is pushed by white men on BIPOC. Just because your whole life you have enjoyed the privileges of your whiteness does not make your way the right way.

No, Black mothers are not the most to blame. It is teen culture, more specifically, that is to blame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I almost threw up when I saw this story. And not that any person matters more than another, but at a time when we need medical professionals more than ever. Devastating that a kid from Ohio working hard in DC for the people of DC was murdered so senselessly.

What a stupid statement. Of course his life mattered more than some 15 year old thug on the street. Maybe not to God, but to humanity and our community.

And how dare you reduce his memory to your needs for medical professionals.

You are an angry little person. I pity you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s kids or young adults who were raised with no morals. Lot’s of people in poverty do not commit crimes. Bad parenting is to blame.

This completely. Not all poor people are out there committing crimes. Many have their noses to the grindstone trying to raise families with good values. But there are a lot of single parent households in DC, and kids being born to parents who probably aren't fit to be parents. We need to be honest about this and actually have some punitive measure for parents too if their kids are acting out.

Once again, shifting blame to single Black mothers. This Eurocentric patriarchal model of family is pushed by white men on BIPOC. Just because your whole life you have enjoyed the privileges of your whiteness does not make your way the right way.

Where did PP say anything about these single parent households being black? You are the one who must pull the race card, because you know you have nothing else to say.

And yes, BTW, the patriarchal model of family is the right way, for all of history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost threw up when I saw this story. And not that any person matters more than another, but at a time when we need medical professionals more than ever. Devastating that a kid from Ohio working hard in DC for the people of DC was murdered so senselessly.

What a stupid statement. Of course his life mattered more than some 15 year old thug on the street. Maybe not to God, but to humanity and our community.

And how dare you reduce his memory to your needs for medical professionals.

You are an angry little person. I pity you.

DP. I am furious about this. Carjacking is not "victimless" or a "property crime". Two people have died of it, now. I am furious.

[Anonymous]

It is very sad the young man was killed in a hit and run carjacking.

The perpetrators did not stop to render aid.

There is a serious loss of ethics and moral values in our society and many young people do not appear to be taught what is right and what is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s kids or young adults who were raised with no morals. Lot’s of people in poverty do not commit crimes. Bad parenting is to blame.

This completely. Not all poor people are out there committing crimes. Many have their noses to the grindstone trying to raise families with good values. But there are a lot of single parent households in DC, and kids being born to parents who probably aren't fit to be parents. We need to be honest about this and actually have some punitive measure for parents too if their kids are acting out.

Once again, shifting blame to single Black mothers. This Eurocentric patriarchal model of family is pushed by white men on BIPOC. Just because your whole life you have enjoyed the privileges of your whiteness does not make your way the right way.

No, Black mothers are not the most to blame. It is teen culture, more specifically, that is to blame.

Um, it's the parents who are to blame, regardless of race. I imagine the PP ranting about whiteness is probably perfectly fine seeing the white parents of white school shooters prosecuted (as am I). But you can't have it both ways. And "teen culture"??? Nope. Specific forms of teen subcultures that glorify violence and criminality and settling beefs with guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost threw up when I saw this story. And not that any person matters more than another, but at a time when we need medical professionals more than ever. Devastating that a kid from Ohio working hard in DC for the people of DC was murdered so senselessly.

What a stupid statement. Of course his life mattered more than some 15 year old thug on the street. Maybe not to God, but to humanity and our community.

And how dare you reduce his memory to your needs for medical professionals.

Feel better? Maybe lay off the steroids for a while .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s kids or young adults who were raised with no morals. Lot’s of people in poverty do not commit crimes. Bad parenting is to blame.

This completely. Not all poor people are out there committing crimes. Many have their noses to the grindstone trying to raise families with good values. But there are a lot of single parent households in DC, and kids being born to parents who probably aren't fit to be parents. We need to be honest about this and actually have some punitive measure for parents too if their kids are acting out.

Once again, shifting blame to single Black mothers. This Eurocentric patriarchal model of family is pushed by white men on BIPOC. Just because your whole life you have enjoyed the privileges of your whiteness does not make your way the right way.

No, Black mothers are not the most to blame. It is teen culture, more specifically, that is to blame.

What is it exactly, and be specific, do you mean by “teen culture”? This is thinly veiled racism and shame on you. Systemic racism and hundreds of years of oppression built this culture. No other culture on earth has had to deal with this kind of oppression in modern times and still gets blamed for the outcomes.

[Anonymous]

I think if you were to look with an open mind you would see plenty of oppressed communities in the world today. And yes, poverty and crime do often go together across cultures. But I find this absence of personal responsibility in your argument really chilling. It's complicated, but at the most basic level each of us chooses which action to take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if you were to look with an open mind you would see plenty of oppressed communities in the world today. And yes, poverty and crime do often go together across cultures. But I find this absence of personal responsibility in your argument really chilling. It's complicated, but at the most basic level each of us chooses which action to take.

Excusing people from committing violent crime "because they are poor" is the soft bigotry of low expectations. While we need to help uplift people in poverty, we can and should expect better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another “CARJACKING WITH MOTHER AND CHILD STILL INSIDE AUTO--- Man says carjacker took his car WITH WIFE AND CHILD IN THE CAR. Near 4th St and F St NE DC. It's a white Mercedes coup with Maryland tags.” @theHillisHome

[twitter] https://twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1489013560583852037?s=21[/twitter]

This happened one block from Charles Allen's house.

At 6pm.

What has he had to say about it?

Getting him off the Council and away from the safety committee would help.

https://twitter.com/Anc6B10/status/1485736233053609990

Someone would have to run. He is unopposed for another 4 year term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Carjackings are happening more and more all over the city. What happens to these cars after they are stolen? I don't understand how you can easily resell a stolen car. And there are groups of kids doing this; how are kids handling the logistics of getting the cars "laundered" or whatever the word for this would be?

They don't. They are stolen for joyriding or to commit other crimes. Many are abandoned, even in the middle of the street, when a better option presents itself, or when they run out of gas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:An ICU doctor was just murdered when someone stole his car and ran him over. Prayers to his family.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/doctor-rakesh-patel-killed-by-suspect-driving-his-stolen-car-adams-morgan/2994423/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

This is horrific. What a terrible waste. I’m so sorry for his family.

Extremely sad to hear this. My kids go to Oyster adams. Right there. What a lively intersection at 8 pm any evening. That this happened to such a good guy is tragic.

This is a terrible story and not to derail this but Oyster Adam’s is not close to 18th and Florida? Like not close at all.

The middle school is at 2020 19th Street, NW.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to talk about “cultural problems” in a community. We need to talk about public policies rooted in systemic racism that perpetuate cyclical poverty and feelings of hopelessness and indignity.

If UC and UMC white people are looking to blame someone, look in a mirror…

Can you not talk about both? Why do either or? And by the way, both the Uber driver and the doctor were not "white people". They were just productive law abiding people. Is that synonymous in your mind with white? The young man killed at the gas station on Conn Ave was productive, law abiding and African. This type of crime doesn't discriminate, though AAs are disproportionately killed and AA communities want to get to the bottom of it; they're the ones begging for more help with this issue.

This.