Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live at 16th and R and was right on this intersection about 30 minutes before this happened. I NEVER walk down R between 14th and 15th because of the sketchy group of young guys who have nothing better to do than drink/smoke/do drugs all day/every day outside. These are the guys that were involved in/shot at 3 weeks ago when the innocent Peace Corps staffer was shot and killed.

I went into the new Amazon Fresh at 14th this evening at around 8 pm and noticed that the group of guys usually hanging out closer to 15th on R, was hanging out on the corner of 14th and Riggs right across from the Amazon Fresh. They were surly part of it (either the target or among the shooters).

Before the incident a few years ago, it had been a long time since there had been a shooting on that block. The last I remember was Thanksgiving night 2016.

+1 moved from Logan to DuPont and have known for years to avoid that block. We actually used to call it the block of death and wouldn’t even drive down it. There’s permanently a couple of groups of guys hanging out & generally smoking pot day or night. Every few years there’s a shooting. At one point they put a dc cop in one of the apts and there was a lull in the little crime but that maybe 2010?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the beef that they are attacking kids and then others are shooting back?

They weren’t attacking little kids. It was a group of teens being shot at, and I’m sure this was the result of some nonsensical neighborhood beef between groups of young men in their teens and early 20s.

Who said “little” kids. Anyone younger than 25 is a kid to me.

Charles Allen has joined the chat.

[Anonymous]

Time to fund more police and build more prisons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to fund more police and build more prisons.

and i'm a liberal democrat.

[Anonymous]

Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

Gentrification is not responsible for this. Do you just not grasp that all of Logan Circle was much more dangerous before it got gentrified?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

I don't know whether to laugh or vomit after reading this garbage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

Nice try. This area has been gentrified for about 15 years. If gentrification is causing all of this as you claim, why is it suddenly getting so bad now? It’s so much worse this year.

[Anonymous]

The pandemic and increasing inequality -- among other things -- are pushing people of all races, colors, and socioeconomic statuses over the edge. Gun violence is up nationwide. Domestic violence is up nationwide. No where is "safe."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

Why would they shoot at each other over gentrification? Wouldn’t they shoot at the gentrifiers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pandemic and increasing inequality -- among other things -- are pushing people of all races, colors, and socioeconomic statuses over the edge. Gun violence is up nationwide. Domestic violence is up nationwide. No where is "safe."

Nice excuse. This is the predictable consequence of last summer’s rioting and anti-police/pro-criminal measures adopted by the DC city government. Did you know that there are actually studies that have demonstrated that anti-police protests are often followed by an increase in crime?

Here’s an example:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/22360290/black-lives-matter-protest-crime-ferguson-effects-murder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

Gentrification is not responsible for this. Do you just not grasp that all of Logan Circle was much more dangerous before it got gentrified?

NIMBYs are responsible for the lack of housing, not gentrifyers (who generally make things safer anyway).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

Honest question- do you work in DCPS? I do. Yes it’d be great for more kids to attend Dcps. However this past year had (hopefully) taught us that public schools CANnOT be the workshops for fixing everything society cannot. Does public education play a large role- you bet! Is it a cure for wealth and racism inequality, not in and of itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

For the non-poor students to raise the test scores of the poor students, you need a four to one ratio of non-poor to poor. Below that, non-poor scores suffer and poor scores don't change. But nice try.