Drive by shooting at John Eaton in Cleveland Park today (construction site)

[Anonymous]

My colleague was shot and killed commuting home from work. I think people should certainly be able to choose not to live in the city because they would rather live somewhere safe. I hope people don’t disregard the gun violence in the city right now.

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Anonymous wrote:My colleague was shot and killed commuting home from work. I think people should certainly be able to choose not to live in the city because they would rather live somewhere safe. I hope people don’t disregard the gun violence in the city right now.

You're more likely to be killed in a car wreck in the burbs than by a gun in DC.

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Ok...

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Anonymous wrote:So a random "jump in" in CP. Drive your car across the city. Most likely will get away with it with the no pursuit laws. You just forget to calculate that the no pursuit laws do not apply to the Park Police or the Secret Service or the Park Police helicopter which apparently followed the car across the city.

But the randomness of shooting into a construction site with three shooters is what is scary. Jump in or not. Random acts of violence are terrifying and only encourage the "we should all be armed" crowd.

it sounds like it was a targeting shooting. props to the park police and secret service in chasing the shooters to the ground. that kind of *immediate* response is the kind of thing that will repress lawlessness, much more than long prison sentences.

That kind of thing (pursuits) is banned for regular MPD in DC. Luckily we had park police / SS nearby. What if we hadn't? These guys would continue joyriding and shooting em up.

It's not banned for violent crimes like shootings, though if Charles Allen has his way it will be. And DCPS can join in pursuits if Park Police and Secret Service initiate them.

My understanding is that wokedom is protesting the hot pursuit that ended in a crash. They'd prefer unfettered crime obvi.

The PP clearly said that if you cannot handle a shooting in your neighborhood every now and then, then you should move out of DC. I presume that means they want the crime.

I think you mean America. Any place there are Americans there will be shootings - there are shootings in the burbs too.

Right. But apparently the PP does not want them questioned, challenged or prevented. We all just need to move every time there is a shooting

[Anonymous]

Oh come on. When gun violence is an issue, you are allowed to acknowledge it. People want to tell themselves that they live in a nice neighborhood regardless of the reality happening around them. I live in a neighborhood where houses are selling for $1 million and there are shootings often. I cannot wait to move out of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want actual reporting instead of the usual lazy popville clickbait to rile up his racist readers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/cleveland-park-shooting-washington/2021/06/17/831b531e-cf9c-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Thanks. I really don’t like Popville.

Racist readers? What bizarro world do you live in? Dan Popville bans anyone who strays right of far left.

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Anymore information?

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Anonymous wrote:Anymore information?

Latest update is that Dan Popville cultivates a far left readership that is not certainly not racist. Other than that? No, nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:So a random "jump in" in CP. Drive your car across the city. Most likely will get away with it with the no pursuit laws. You just forget to calculate that the no pursuit laws do not apply to the Park Police or the Secret Service or the Park Police helicopter which apparently followed the car across the city.

But the randomness of shooting into a construction site with three shooters is what is scary. Jump in or not. Random acts of violence are terrifying and only encourage the "we should all be armed" crowd.

it sounds like it was a targeting shooting. props to the park police and secret service in chasing the shooters to the ground. that kind of *immediate* response is the kind of thing that will repress lawlessness, much more than long prison sentences.

That kind of thing (pursuits) is banned for regular MPD in DC. Luckily we had park police / SS nearby. What if we hadn't? These guys would continue joyriding and shooting em up.

It's not banned for violent crimes like shootings, though if Charles Allen has his way it will be. And DCPS can join in pursuits if Park Police and Secret Service initiate them.

My understanding is that wokedom is protesting the hot pursuit that ended in a crash. They'd prefer unfettered crime obvi.

The PP clearly said that if you cannot handle a shooting in your neighborhood every now and then, then you should move out of DC. I presume that means they want the crime.

Is this what they mean by “urban vibrancy”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:different note - what is the “school in a box” poster? lol NW parents are always extra. that said, you should keep a close eye on the design - our renovation ended up with some really bad features, like windowless classrooms and all-glass walls (zero privacy and hard to teach in).

John Eaton School was a super cute little school with its own playground and the neighbors feared it would be replaced with a big box type square charmless building with no green space or playground.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If you want actual reporting instead of the usual lazy popville clickbait to rile up his racist readers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/cleveland-park-shooting-washington/2021/06/17/831b531e-cf9c-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Thanks. I really don’t like Popville.

Racist readers? What bizarro world do you live in? Dan Popville bans anyone who strays right of far left.

Yeah this made me laugh. he doesn't even allow comments on stories about crime!

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Anonymous wrote:My colleague was shot and killed commuting home from work. I think people should certainly be able to choose not to live in the city because they would rather live somewhere safe. I hope people don’t disregard the gun violence in the city right now.

Was he the young social worker randomly shot around Bladensburg Rd? Such a sad story.

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Anonymous wrote:different note - what is the “school in a box” poster? lol NW parents are always extra. that said, you should keep a close eye on the design - our renovation ended up with some really bad features, like windowless classrooms and all-glass walls (zero privacy and hard to teach in).

John Eaton School was a super cute little school with its own playground and the neighbors feared it would be replaced with a big box type square charmless building with no green space or playground.

They are kind of supersizing the school beyond projected local needs, and replacing one of the historic wings with a charmless box building. Unfortunately there will be no green space (unless a little astroturf counts) and a smaller playground than before.

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Anonymous wrote:different note - what is the “school in a box” poster? lol NW parents are always extra. that said, you should keep a close eye on the design - our renovation ended up with some really bad features, like windowless classrooms and all-glass walls (zero privacy and hard to teach in).

John Eaton School was a super cute little school with its own playground and the neighbors feared it would be replaced with a big box type square charmless building with no green space or playground.

They are kind of supersizing the school beyond projected local needs, and replacing one of the historic wings with a charmless box building. Unfortunately there will be no green space (unless a little astroturf counts) and a smaller playground than before.

The historic buildings circa 1911 are preserved. The multipurpose room and library structure, in the center of the school and built later, are being replaced.

[Anonymous]

Another "School Shooting" for the statistics books.