Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news: Bedney was caught. https://www.popville.com/2021/05/arrest-made-dc-shaw-shooting/

TBD: Will justice actually be served with meaningful prison time to both punish this perp and protect citizens from this menace?

Is he under 25 or whatever? Allen will have him out in a jiff if so!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news: Bedney was caught. https://www.popville.com/2021/05/arrest-made-dc-shaw-shooting/

TBD: Will justice actually be served with meaningful prison time to both punish this perp and protect citizens from this menace?

Thank god for the police. I wish we had more of them.

[Anonymous]

He’s 26 yo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s 26 yo

Surely, this criminal won't be described as a "child."

[Anonymous]

He’s not white so not a child or young man. He should, however, get the maximum sentence AND rot in hell.

[Anonymous]

He'll likely get 12 to 15 years, which means he'll be out and ready to terrorize again by his late 30s. Maybe he'll have mellowed and will only shoot other adults by then...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He'll likely get 12 to 15 years, which means he'll be out and ready to terrorize again by his late 30s. Maybe he'll have mellowed and will only shoot other adults by then...

Did he have a prior criminal history?

[Anonymous]

I believe in rehabilitation.

I mean, if we didn't believe in that, we'd have had to keep Rush Limbaugh in jail after his opioid crimes. But we believed he could get better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe in rehabilitation.

I mean, if we didn't believe in that, we'd have had to keep Rush Limbaugh in jail after his opioid crimes. But we believed he could get better.

Agreed. If there is no rehabilitation, then you must believe in the death penalty to all crimes include very minor ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in rehabilitation.

I mean, if we didn't believe in that, we'd have had to keep Rush Limbaugh in jail after his opioid crimes. But we believed he could get better.

Agreed. If there is no rehabilitation, then you must believe in the death penalty to all crimes include very minor ones.

BS. Small crimes don't involve violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe in rehabilitation.

I mean, if we didn't believe in that, we'd have had to keep Rush Limbaugh in jail after his opioid crimes. But we believed he could get better.

Shooting a child at close range ain't no small crime. There can be rehabilitation and educational opportunities behind bars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe in rehabilitation.

I mean, if we didn't believe in that, we'd have had to keep Rush Limbaugh in jail after his opioid crimes. But we believed he could get better.

this is so stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wondering where that disturbed “MYOB and STFU” poster is now? Just shameful. That guy needs to be locked up.

I'm here. I think this guy was nuts and doesn't change how I feel at all. They should have backed away and not confronted him. You can be right or you can be dead.

Thank god the world operates by a legal code and not your “street code”.

Look, they ended up shot. The world obviously does run by a street code. This is a really bizarre perspective to take.

If someone tried to run over your toddlers on an electric scooter, you would just say NOTHING?! I would definitely say "dude slow down!". This does NOT warrant being shot. He shot a freaking CHILD!!!! He could have killed both children easily.

I wouldn’t let my toddler play on a sidewalk in busy Logan Circle. The last time I checked Logan Circle is in the heart of downtown. This isn’t a leafy part of upper northwest. Nor is it a not so pedestrian trod section of leafy side street full of single family dwellings in Northeast. This isn’t a quiet culdesac in the burbs which sees almost no foot traffic other than your neighbors.

These people didn’t deserve to get hurt, but the posters who keep mentioning street smarts nailed it. DC isn’t Kansas stop acting like you think it should be and are outraged when in instances like this you find it isn’t.

I have relatives, who live in the city and a fact of life for them is that they don’t do certain things that my family takes for granted like playing on the sidewalk in front of my house. Their children are way more cautious of strangers and the like than mine are because they encounter far more strangers in a typical day than mine do.

The ones that could afford it moved to leafy upper nw single family homes and yes even they are more cautious than we are. These random crimes of “opportunity” can happen anywhere being a random victim of one is more likely to happen in a place where you have lots of different people sharing a small space.

This is why people move to the suburbs or to less trafficked parts of the city. I didn’t want to raise my family in the city because I wanted them to be more free, naive and yes safe. There is a trade off.

You must not come into the city often or only go to Metro Center if you do. Logan Circle in the daytime is pretty safe and fairly leafy,m. I would absolutely let my toddler play in Logan Circle as would many others. Logan Circle is, in fact, far safer than other areas in NW.

[Anonymous]

^^ Logan Circle is generally safe, but over the last 10 years there has been a ton of crime. Not the previous PP who fled to the burbs but we left 5 years ago.

We used to live in Shaw not far from this shooting. I can list at least 3 murders that happened on our block - 2 that were not even covered by the media.

DH was attacked pretty badly on our block. He was in a coma for two weeks. Nary a mention anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ Logan Circle is generally safe, but over the last 10 years there has been a ton of crime. Not the previous PP who fled to the burbs but we left 5 years ago.

We used to live in Shaw not far from this shooting. I can list at least 3 murders that happened on our block - 2 that were not even covered by the media.

DH was attacked pretty badly on our block. He was in a coma for two weeks. Nary a mention anywhere.

Yeah.

Nothing shows the death of local media than the lack of coverage of crimes like this.

The Post has a tiny local section, and WCP and Popville are not even close to sufficient replacements.