Multiple people shot on CT Ave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woman who died was young, I believe 20 years old and from Waldorf. I heard part of a statement from her family hinting that the last two years had been a struggle. I wish we had more details.

Such an eye-opener to learn more about a nice neighborhood, where I used to live.

This is desperately sad.

[Anonymous]

OP and I just remembered that Mary Cheh’s car was stolen in broad daylight in front of Bread Furst in like December of 2020? Or maybe early 21? That’s on the same block. Did she mention that at the press conference? Beyond ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is still true, but that Days Inn has often housed tourists who come to DC for protests and such, and I was, startlingly, told to avoid the area the week of the January 6th insurrection.

If, as it has been reported, the violence happened inside the hotel, perhaps the issue is complicated by the need to both protect free speech and other Constitutional rights, while also protecting the rights of those of us who live and work here.

Were the voices in your head the ones that told you January 6th protesters were staying there?

Did they tell you to write this post as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is still true, but that Days Inn has often housed tourists who come to DC for protests and such, and I was, startlingly, told to avoid the area the week of the January 6th insurrection.

If, as it has been reported, the violence happened inside the hotel, perhaps the issue is complicated by the need to both protect free speech and other Constitutional rights, while also protecting the rights of those of us who live and work here.

Omg you are ridiculous

DC people — you are getting the crime you voted for

+1 you deserve all of this. If you care then vote differently.

+2 are you familiar with the definition of insanity?

Now apply that to how 90% of the electorate in DC votes.

[Anonymous]

Dasha Cleary was the who died.

[Anonymous]

Her social media presence has been scrubbed in the last few hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is the goal of moving the unhoused and indigent into Forest Hills to bring Forest Hills down or to bring the unhoused up? This could be a tremendous opportunity for these people, but I don’t see them taking advantage of it and I really only hear eye rolling PP celebrating that her faction has succeeded in spreading blight. So let's reconsider if there really is any point to the project before "equity" drags everyone down.

Yes, that is their goal. In their troubled minds, equity is being resentful to those who have more than "the other" and have a well lived life. For example, it's being bitter because you don't own a classic six on Park Ave, so they build a mega homeless shelter on billionaires row to destroy the quality of life and safety of the neighborhood. While looting, drug use, drug sales, shootings, stabbings, solo sex or with another homeless person, fighting, public urinating and defecating, property destruction, aggressive panhandling, assaults, etc plague the neighborhood, they are sitting back in their offices ignoring complaints and laughing hysterically. This is equity.

[Anonymous]

No social worker, down on their luck pro bono lawyer filing frivolous lawsuits, shelter, or affordable housing in any neighborhood will solve these peoples numerous problems rendering them incapable of functioning at the most basic levels.

Until you realize more mental hospitals and prisons are needed, the consequences will increase exponentially. Not everyone can be rehabilitated. There's no cure for mental illness. In most cases, these people need to remain in prison and mental hospitals for life. It isn't inhumane if they belong in these institutions and can’t be cured. It's inhumane and negligent to have them running loose on the streets harming themselves and others. It's likely none of these people could tell the difference between a shelter or street versuses prison or mental hospital. They might for the first time in their life experience contentment and happiness in the institutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP and I just remembered that Mary Cheh’s car was stolen in broad daylight in front of Bread Furst in like December of 2020? Or maybe early 21? That’s on the same block. Did she mention that at the press conference? Beyond ridiculous.

It's next door. She mentioned rising crime, the spike in statistics, the nuisance car comes including our MD neighbors illegal parking and racing in the neighborhood and people not feeling safe in general . Good for her to bring it all up. Where are the cameras, tickets, boots, charges, prosecutions, follow up and services? Yes it's a chain, but it's each link is not brain surgery .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No social worker, down on their luck pro bono lawyer filing frivolous lawsuits, shelter, or affordable housing in any neighborhood will solve these peoples numerous problems rendering them incapable of functioning at the most basic levels.

Until you realize more mental hospitals and prisons are needed, the consequences will increase exponentially. Not everyone can be rehabilitated. There's no cure for mental illness. In most cases, these people need to remain in prison and mental hospitals for life. It isn't inhumane if they belong in these institutions and can’t be cured. It's inhumane and negligent to have them running loose on the streets harming themselves and others. It's likely none of these people could tell the difference between a shelter or street versuses prison or mental hospital. They might for the first time in their life experience contentment and happiness in the institutions.

Like the mentally ill homeless person drawing swastikas on columns in Union Station? Housing first won't cure him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No social worker, down on their luck pro bono lawyer filing frivolous lawsuits, shelter, or affordable housing in any neighborhood will solve these peoples numerous problems rendering them incapable of functioning at the most basic levels.

Until you realize more mental hospitals and prisons are needed, the consequences will increase exponentially. Not everyone can be rehabilitated. There's no cure for mental illness. In most cases, these people need to remain in prison and mental hospitals for life. It isn't inhumane if they belong in these institutions and can’t be cured. It's inhumane and negligent to have them running loose on the streets harming themselves and others. It's likely none of these people could tell the difference between a shelter or street versuses prison or mental hospital. They might for the first time in their life experience contentment and happiness in the institutions.

Like the mentally ill homeless person drawing swastikas on columns in Union Station? Housing first won't cure him?

That's right. He will just destroy the apartment and there's no one to stop him from leaving his apartment to go out and do it again or something much worse.

Do these people really think the reason this man is drawing swastikas and defacing property is because he has no apartment?

It would be cheaper to house him in jail or a mental hospital for life where he can't leave rather than pay his rent for life.

Do you think he would do his laundry and clean his apartment? Probably not. All of this is taken care of for him in prison or the mental hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

Yes. I lived there for years. Those two buildings mentioned - Chesapeake and Saratoga - were quiet and unremarkable and right down the street were million+ homes and condos that were going for large $$’s.

We sold our condo a few months ago just down the street. Very high HHI and multiple kids. The crime was a major factor in our decision to leave (plus covid insanity and soon to hike in income tax). Now happily situated in a home in a quiet close in burb. The city is in free fall.

[Anonymous]

Would you want "swastika man" as your neighbor? I bet he is also loud and generally unpleasant in every way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is that particular Days Inn a homeless shelter as reported in the DC Metro forum or is it a hotel again?

Both is my impression although there won't be hotel guests much longer. Van Ness Main Street reported it is for sale. Maybe the city will put some kind of housing there?

Who the city was housing there came up at a meeting Mary Cheh hosted. Once city bureaucrat said his agency did not have people there currently, Cheh did not respond.

The police have received complaints re: drugs and sex trade re: the hotel in the past.

Hope the victims will recover. It is my understanding that one woman was found dead and was revived at the scene.

My first thought was sex trade.

Before I knew anything about sex trafficking and before one could make reservations for hotels online or check reviews, we walked into a hotel in the midwest. I noticed women with dark rings under their eyes. They looked zoned out. When we entered, everyone stared at us. We immediately left.

I had never heard of sex trafficking, but I later read that location in Kansas was at the heart of a sex trafficking ring. I'm 99% sure I walked into a hotel full of women being sold for sex.

Recently, I read of people who had scary experiences inside lower budget hotels in DC. One reported seeing people without luggage and a "sleeping" woman being carried over someone's shoulder. I hope the police are doing something about it.

[Anonymous]

The victim had profiles on Facebook and other social media, since scrubbed. Sex, yes, but trafficking, no. I suspect that she was there of her own free will.