Zoo Lights Shooting and Violence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

NP. PP’s choice of words is unfortunate and reeks of lots of “isms” but this is the freaking zoo. It’s a family event. I imagine all families at the zoo tonight regardless of their race or SES expected this to be a reasonably safe place.

exactly. zoolights is full of families & babies & children of ALL RACES. drop your stupid wokeness and realize that nobody wants to have to run out of the zoo in a panic because some dumbsh*t kids are setting off fireworks.

I'm done with kids setting off fireworks in crowded places -- they need to be charged very seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey all you UNC NW DC dwellers--this is a big city, historically black, that you have aggressively gentrified. This thread is full of microaggressions and I'm sorry if it hurts your liberal heart to hear this but you're actually racist. Crime in DC is not nearly what it was years ago. No big city will be crime free.

And, our city has all these great Smithsonian museums (including zoo) which make great art and experiences available to everyone, regardless of socioeconomic class or ability to pay. I'm proud of that.

It's a microaggression not to want dumb teens to set off a panic in crowded places with fireworks? ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

NP. PP’s choice of words is unfortunate and reeks of lots of “isms” but this is the freaking zoo. It’s a family event. I imagine all families at the zoo tonight regardless of their race or SES expected this to be a reasonably safe place.

exactly. zoolights is full of families & babies & children of ALL RACES. drop your stupid wokeness and realize that nobody wants to have to run out of the zoo in a panic because some dumbsh*t kids are setting off fireworks.

I'm done with kids setting off fireworks in crowded places -- they need to be charged very seriously.

You mean like setting them off in metro? Im with you, but police arent allowed to address teens. Someone will "capture" it on their stupid camera phone, say they are violating the kids rights and the officers will be investigated and put on leave. And if the kids are apprehended and charged, our council will make sure they are out in a week, probably with a voucher for firecrackers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

NP. PP’s choice of words is unfortunate and reeks of lots of “isms” but this is the freaking zoo. It’s a family event. I imagine all families at the zoo tonight regardless of their race or SES expected this to be a reasonably safe place.

exactly. zoolights is full of families & babies & children of ALL RACES. drop your stupid wokeness and realize that nobody wants to have to run out of the zoo in a panic because some dumbsh*t kids are setting off fireworks.

I'm done with kids setting off fireworks in crowded places -- they need to be charged very seriously.

You mean like setting them off in metro? Im with you, but police arent allowed to address teens. Someone will "capture" it on their stupid camera phone, say they are violating the kids rights and the officers will be investigated and put on leave. And if the kids are apprehended and charged, our council will make sure they are out in a week, probably with a voucher for firecrackers.

I actually think that in this day and age of panic over mass shooting, we need to have a new law with severe penalties for creating panic in a crowded place. so that means screaming, lighting off fireworks, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Memo to wilding “teenagers”: pull your pants up, buckle down in school or get a job, be civil and courteous and follow the law. Oh, and don’t shoot a gun in a crowd of families. It’s not that complicated.

Umm, yeah, its a little more complicated than your simpleton memo...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Memo to wilding “teenagers”: pull your pants up, buckle down in school or get a job, be civil and courteous and follow the law. Oh, and don’t shoot a gun in a crowd of families. It’s not that complicated.

Umm, yeah, its a little more complicated than your simpleton memo...

It's more complicated than not shooting guns into crowds? OK.

Look, I know that systemic racism exists. However, teenagers with guns who engage in crew robberies, beatings, riots, etc, deserve what they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

They can enter the bubble if they check their guns at the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

Are you one of the thugs?

Most likely.

An enabler for sure.

Lol. The PP calls this thread for what it is (i.e. scared UMC white folks who want to live in the city, yet without everything that city living brings), and is called out by said scared folk as a "thug" or "enabler." Priceless.

Ah the thug apologist has arrived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

They can enter the bubble if they check their guns at the door.

didn’t realize there were no guns in nwdc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey all you UNC NW DC dwellers--this is a big city, historically black, that you have aggressively gentrified. This thread is full of microaggressions and I'm sorry if it hurts your liberal heart to hear this but you're actually racist. Crime in DC is not nearly what it was years ago. No big city will be crime free.

And, our city has all these great Smithsonian museums (including zoo) which make great art and experiences available to everyone, regardless of socioeconomic class or ability to pay. I'm proud of that.

No. You can have your opinions but you can't make up your own facts.

DC historically hasn't been a "black" city. For a limited period in a much longer history, the city was majority black. Fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey all you UNC NW DC dwellers--this is a big city, historically black, that you have aggressively gentrified. This thread is full of microaggressions and I'm sorry if it hurts your liberal heart to hear this but you're actually racist. Crime in DC is not nearly what it was years ago. No big city will be crime free.

And, our city has all these great Smithsonian museums (including zoo) which make great art and experiences available to everyone, regardless of socioeconomic class or ability to pay. I'm proud of that.

Someone who supports bad behavior and gun violence is not as civilized as pretended.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious, do you think WDC is becoming as violent as Baltimore and if so, what trends/data do you see? If not, what do you see as differentiating factors?

P.S. I was too tired after all the company left Sat afternoon to make the ZooLights. Consider myself Lucky in The Burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Yes, it's crazy that People Not From the Neighborhood came to the National Zoo. It's crazy and aggravating that UMC white people can't have a sealed off bubble in NWDC where no urban issues, like crime or guns, intrude. How dare they do this to you!

You are 100% correct.

It really is aggravating that people who don't want to live in the midst of crime can't be sealed off in a bubble. You are damn right about that. Quality of life would be so much better if we didn't have to be exposed to the scum and filth that roams this planet. They contribute nothing and are worthless.

Wish we could just designate a country for these people, round them up and wall it off from the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious, do you think WDC is becoming as violent as Baltimore and if so, what trends/data do you see? If not, what do you see as differentiating factors?

P.S. I was too tired after all the company left Sat afternoon to make the ZooLights. Consider myself Lucky in The Burbs.

Please stay in the “burbs.” You’ll never make it in crime infested WDC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the heck happened? The Post story is unclear. Fireworks we're heard (inside the zoo? Outside the zoo?) and then the fighting was outside the zoo? The shooting was outside the zoo?

They closed Conn Ave because of the people streaming out of the zoo?

Crazy. And aggravating. The zoo has been trying to increase security and close itself off from the neighborhood, and wants increased fencing. So aggravating that people likely not from the neighborhood are creating the ammunition for those m measures to go through.

Op here

My thoughts exactly. I bet airport security goes up ASAP. We live 3 blocks from the zoo. This is incredibly scary that not even a family event at the zoo is safe in DC. The Mayor needs to get her act together.

Incredibly scary?