Park Police Officer Shot Downtown

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That US Park Police officer should get a medal for exemplary performance in the line of duty. I doubt that MPD would have bothered to bother with these street entrepreneurs.

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The criminal’s rap sheet was a mile long. Gun, drugs, extended ammo clips. Multiple pre-trial release violations.

All excused

24 months, all suspended.

And this officer’s life will never be the same.

This is how the system is designed.

Yet there had to be a supreme court case and hoop after hoop for our household to have a legally registered firearm. I have zero issue with that. I do question the irony of where the city brings down the hammer of the law. Not on actual criminals.

But you can bet the entire weight of the justice system would’ve come down on your household if you possessed a gun illegally. Zero doubt about that. A UMC household with no criminal records charged with a ”gun crime”? They’ll make an example out of you. You’ll be in jail longer than J6’ers. The USAO will fall over itself trying to convict you.

Because Equity.

Yep.


This guy in the linked article was prosecuted for a single spent shotgun shell. DC police raided his house, searched it top to bottom, and found a spent shotgun casing. Two years in jail.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/dc-police-raid-home-arrest-man-for-possession-of-single-shotgun-shell-and-spent-cartridge/

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The criminal’s rap sheet was a mile long. Gun, drugs, extended ammo clips. Multiple pre-trial release violations.

All excused

24 months, all suspended.

And this officer’s life will never be the same.

This is how the system is designed.

The average murderer in DC has more than 11 felonies. Al these guys are well known to the police, prosecutors, and judges.

I give up.

I live a hundred yards from the DC border. I don't go downtown at all anymore if I can avoid it. It's not like I'm particularly sensitive, but on a Wednesday evening there are far better options than dealing with all the garbage in DC. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't bother with DC anymore.

Think it would be a tough place to run a restaurant or coffee shop today

If that is the case, why can’t I get a reservation on a decent night at any of the “in” restaurants. Somebody is going into downtown.

I agree it is hard if you run a business catering to the 9-5 crowd due to remote work. The hip places seem packed.

NP here. What is considered downtown?

In my case, Union Market, whatever the area on Mass Avenue near Union Station is now considered, where Jaleo is located (decided to just walk in and wait).

?? Jaleo is nowhere near Union Market??

Thanks for the geography lesson…these were locations I was trying to book a table to no avail…I get they are three different locations

Keep to the thread topic. Stop trying to derail.

Police officers getting shot and DC posters arguing over the availability of restaurant reservations.

These are the priories that got us here.

When someone posts that “neither they or anyone” goes downtown anymore because of crime…well that doesn’t seem to be true.

I don’t disagree with you, but perhaps those that live their lives exclusively in the suburbs and exurbs can leave the substantive discussions to the rest.

Ooooh the inevitable cliche of the urban transplant belittling those who live in the burbs. All of these same urbanites grew up in the suburbs themselves but NOW they are cool kids in the city lol.

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I mean, Chuck is not wrong.

I’ll say it again here: USAO is trying to sandbag DC. There’s something weird happening in that office and none of the major media outlets want to get to the bottom of it.

They need to start doing some old fashioned investigative journalism.

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to become a trend. Criminals will have to learn the hard way.

I really hope so honestly

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to become a trend. Criminals will have to learn the hard way.

I really hope so honestly

The police are being pilloried by the Ward 3 bike bros for having the nerve to speak out against their sacred bike lanes. Pathetic losers.

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Anonymous wrote:Sick. No one wants to hang out in DC anymore. This was in the middle of the afternoon.

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Considering i passed by the area yesterday at the time it occurred (wondered why the police presence) and it was absolutely jam packed with people…seems like someone wants to hang out.

You don’t seem to know the area well. That block has two large apartments for indigent seniors that attracts a lot of street activity.

The area is not just the actual block where the shooting occurred…the PP said nobody wants to hang out in DC and the general area was packed with lots of young, able-bodied professionals that were far from indigent.

Those are all the fed civil servants working really hard from home.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone work as police officer in DC?

Defund the police.

#BlackLivesMatter

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone work as police officer in DC?

Defund the police.

#BlackLivesMatter

By and large, it's black men killing black people. Clearly, black lives don't matter for progressives.

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Here's the officer's bodycam of the shooting

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the officer's bodycam of the shooting

This young officer is a hero and DC should be grateful for his service.

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Having watched the video---

Officer pursuing running suspect, who refuses to stop or show his hands.
Officer has gun pulled, warns suspect that he needs to stop and show hands or he will get hurt
Suspect turns, gun in hand. Officer fires, suspect fires.
If my understanding of the video is accurate,
this is why police officers often get acquitted in cases involving similar scenarios. The suspect had multiple opportunities to surrender or throw down his weapon but the second he turned back, gun in hand, to the officer, the officer was in reasonable fear of his life and allowed to shoot.

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Anonymous wrote:Having watched the video---

Officer pursuing running suspect, who refuses to stop or show his hands.
Officer has gun pulled, warns suspect that he needs to stop and show hands or he will get hurt
Suspect turns, gun in hand. Officer fires, suspect fires.
If my understanding of the video is accurate,
this is why police officers often get acquitted in cases involving similar scenarios. The suspect had multiple opportunities to surrender or throw down his weapon but the second he turned back, gun in hand, to the officer, the officer was in reasonable fear of his life and allowed to shoot.

I don't think you have the timing quite right.