Woman killed while jogging near Logan Circle

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By nearly eliminating residential mental health facilities, the mentally ill are on the streets.

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Congress eliminated funding for mental health residential facilities, using horror stories as their cover. We're left with minimal care for the mentally ill and they're on the streets. Very few commit violent crimes but all are in need of more help. It is a common good, the burden of which we all should share.

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So I’m supposed to be home before 5:00 pm from October to March, and only run errands/jog in the middle of the day. Except on golf courses. And look out for 360 degrees of strange men while I’m walking in the middle of hundreds of people so I don’t get attacked and them blamed for my attack.

For everyone who made “suggestions” on how women can keep ourselves safe, WE’RE ALREADY DOING THEM! What more can we do? We are citizens who deserve to live and work and safely be in public.

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Anonymous wrote:If I were in a restaurant in a safe area and someone came in covered in blood and likely looking very shocked, I don't know how I'd react either. I could imagine thinking a crime was in action and needing to get to safety.

It reminded me of Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect. So scary though. I agree it’s hard to tell how anyone will react in emergency situations before it actually happens.

Once my shirt caught on fire in the kitchen while cooking and my one roommate just stood there screaming (but was apparently unable to help in an emergency). Another got water to throw on me.

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Anonymous wrote:If I were in a restaurant in a safe area and someone came in covered in blood and likely looking very shocked, I don't know how I'd react either. I could imagine thinking a crime was in action and needing to get to safety.

Yeah, I would hope I would try to help, but I'm not medically trained and have never faced a similar scenario so I have no idea.
Let's just praise the people who did help.

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I hope the Amazon execs who are deciding HQ2 are paying attention. Someone should send this thread to them. Until DC gets a grip on its out of control homeless population and crime in general, this city is not ready for prime time. Amazon would be wise to look elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the Amazon execs who are deciding HQ2 are paying attention. Someone should send this thread to them. Until DC gets a grip on its out of control homeless population and crime in general, this city is not ready for prime time. Amazon would be wise to look elsewhere.

Like some other city where random murders happen?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the Amazon execs who are deciding HQ2 are paying attention. Someone should send this thread to them. Until DC gets a grip on its out of control homeless population and crime in general, this city is not ready for prime time. Amazon would be wise to look elsewhere.

Like some other city where random murders happen?

Like a jurisdiction that enforces its laws. Come to think of it, maybe Ashburn.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the Amazon execs who are deciding HQ2 are paying attention. Someone should send this thread to them. Until DC gets a grip on its out of control homeless population and crime in general, this city is not ready for prime time. Amazon would be wise to look elsewhere.

Indeed

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I wonder if DC has more random crime than other cities?

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Anonymous wrote:Suspect is Anthony Crawford. He was not homeless - he had a home address in NW DC.

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https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/wendy-martinez-murder/

A single suspect has been arrested by police. The suspect has been named as Anthony Crawford, 23, of no fixed address. Crawford had been described as a black male who was wearing a mustard colored long sleeve shirt that went to his thighs, dark, rolled up sweatpants, white socks and light colored sandals. D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said the suspect has a “distinctive” style of walking.

Are you watching the live press conference? Police explicitly said he was not homeless, and had a fixed address in NW DC. I trust that more than some tabloid website.

I will not really care if he was homeless/not homeless. We are clearly going to learn shortly there were multiple indications he should have been committed long ago.

News conference did say he was not cooperative and had a history of violence. Which surprises precisely no one.

A history of violence?

So who's responsible for the murder of a Hispanic woman?

You're weird, PP. He should not have been on the streets. No one is arguing with you on that.

Who's responsible for him being on the streets?

I think Ronald Reagan

He's 22.

He was 15 years from being born when Reagan left office.

But that shouldn't deter you from a political jab, amirite?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the Amazon execs who are deciding HQ2 are paying attention. Someone should send this thread to them. Until DC gets a grip on its out of control homeless population and crime in general, this city is not ready for prime time. Amazon would be wise to look elsewhere.

Like some other city where random murders happen?

Why was a clearly troubled person roaming the streets with a knife?

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Anonymous wrote:And I'll be the 4% by females are mostly self-defense. It's testosterone.

Who broke your heart so long ago?

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14 29, you aren't that great at history, amirite?

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Anonymous wrote:A surveillance video was released from inside the restaurant where the victim went after she was stabbed. She's blurred out but you can see people running away from her.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6189359/Police-arrest-suspect-fatal-stabbing-newly-engaged-DC-jogger.html

that was posted above. I know it's natural to want to get away but DAMN that one guy is a coward. The store owner tried to help and others apparently ran in as well (not in video).

I hope the man and woman seen scrambling away in the video have told everyone they know that they were there when she came into the restaurant, and that their friends, family and coworkers all see the video. Cowards. Not to mention stupid to run out into the street where the attack had just happened.

Too bad you weren't there to be the hero.
Monday morning quarterbacking at its finest.

It's hard to pass judgement on how the restaurant patrons reacted if you've never been in a similar situation. It must have been very scary for a bleeding woman to run in like that.

Well, it’s a good thing that there are courageous people in the world to fill in for all the cowards then, isn’t it?

And they still couldn't save her, could they?

She had a lethal wound. She was irreversibly dead the instant that knife went in, and no amount of heroic bystanders would've been able to change that.

Why are you shaming those people?!?! They were scared. You would be too.


You're disgusting.