Murder of Metro Employee at Potomac Avenue Metro

[Anonymous]

Well metro employees have learnt not to protect you criminal-loving riders next time. No help was forthcoming and there’s no outrage following. Where’s the protests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Screw the Council, Bowser needs to step up and get these people off the streets. If they're immediately released, arrest them again, make something up, I really do not care. Some people belong behind bars and "kids" who are doing this stuff should be in reform school where they can get a proper education and adult supervision. Enough with this social justice garbage. What a bunch of garbage people have fallen for, just ridiculous.

This. Get them off the street. On the police’s radar? Is this a joke? Recently followed a story in the Wash Post of a girl who was accidentally shot in DC by another child. The adult owner of the gun is a lowlife sociopath who will get out of jail shortly after serving less than a year iirc. He already had numerous offenses. Why oh why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw the Council, Bowser needs to step up and get these people off the streets. If they're immediately released, arrest them again, make something up, I really do not care. Some people belong behind bars and "kids" who are doing this stuff should be in reform school where they can get a proper education and adult supervision. Enough with this social justice garbage. What a bunch of garbage people have fallen for, just ridiculous.

This. Get them off the street. On the police’s radar? Is this a joke? Recently followed a story in the Wash Post of a girl who was accidentally shot in DC by another child. The adult owner of the gun is a lowlife sociopath who will get out of jail shortly after serving less than a year iirc. He already had numerous offenses. Why oh why.

There is no purpose getting these people off the streets when the guns are still out there. Until we fix our national gun problem nothing can be done.

[Anonymous]

If gun ownership is protected by the constitution and therefore a federal right, why can’t we make any crime committed with a gun a federal offense with a minimum mandatory sentence? Can we not create new minimum mandatory sentences for gun related crimes? We can’t take them away but we can put them away. We should focus less on the futile gun control fundraising and put that money into prosecution and conviction.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who works for Metro. They are exhausted. This shooting and death, and 3 other recent shootings. MTPD has increased presence in recent months, but there are not police to be everywhere all the time.

I don’t have any answers, just sharing my feelings of extreme sad was that gum violence is allowed to happen the US more than any other developed country. There is not enough will here it seems to make it better

[Anonymous]

its a lot like teachers. And police. The people who "protect and serve" need protection too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If gun ownership is protected by the constitution and therefore a federal right, why can’t we make any crime committed with a gun a federal offense with a minimum mandatory sentence? Can we not create new minimum mandatory sentences for gun related crimes? We can’t take them away but we can put them away. We should focus less on the futile gun control fundraising and put that money into prosecution and conviction.

This would be considered inequitable due to who would be mostly locked up, a lot like 3 strikes youre out.

[Anonymous]

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This. Get them off the street. On the police’s radar? Is this a joke? Recently followed a story in the Wash Post of a girl who was accidentally shot in DC by another child. The adult owner of the gun is a lowlife sociopath who will get out of jail shortly after serving less than a year iirc. He already had numerous offenses. Why oh why.

I've lived in DC for 15 years so I'm use to reading about weak sentences. But I was really taken aback this week to read about a guy who shot a father to death on the street on broad daylight in front of the victim's children by EchoStage. He was sentenced to only 10 years in prison.

[Anonymous]

We need more police on the Metro with, yes, more guns. I want to see it look like the year after 9/11 around here until this madness stops. Cops with full Kevlar and semi-automatic rifles.

We need to start taking fare evasion seriously. When far to many people are hopping the turnstiles at a Metro station it breeds an air of lawlessness that ripples out and has fifth order consequences.

The privileged white liberals on the council need to be replaced by working class Black politicians who actually care about their constituents lives and don’t just want to craft policies that assuage their own deep seeded guilt. People like Charles Allen are virtue signaling on the backs of homicide victims and the survivors of violent crimes who will live out their rest of their lives with PTSD and other assorted traumas. Privileged people like Charles Allen often don’t have a lot of experience with family members who are victims of poverty, crime, or substance abuse…it’s all a theoretical and ideological game to them.

[Anonymous]

Happens every time:

Court records show Isaiah Trotman was charged with assault and battery in November 2021, only to have those charges dismissed six months later by Albemarle County, Va., prosecutor Jim Hingeley.

We're doing this to ourselves electing people who deliberately keep madmen on the streets to kill. At least the people of Albemarle County were lucky to have him go kill somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happens every time:

Court records show Isaiah Trotman was charged with assault and battery in November 2021, only to have those charges dismissed six months later by Albemarle County, Va., prosecutor Jim Hingeley.

We're doing this to ourselves electing people who deliberately keep madmen on the streets to kill. At least the people of Albemarle County were lucky to have him go kill somewhere else.

Isn't it amazing how many of the mentally-ill and dangerous homeless aren't from here? Can we stop being a magnet for this sort?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw the Council, Bowser needs to step up and get these people off the streets. If they're immediately released, arrest them again, make something up, I really do not care. Some people belong behind bars and "kids" who are doing this stuff should be in reform school where they can get a proper education and adult supervision. Enough with this social justice garbage. What a bunch of garbage people have fallen for, just ridiculous.

This. Get them off the street. On the police’s radar? Is this a joke? Recently followed a story in the Wash Post of a girl who was accidentally shot in DC by another child. The adult owner of the gun is a lowlife sociopath who will get out of jail shortly after serving less than a year iirc. He already had numerous offenses. Why oh why.

There is no purpose getting these people off the streets when the guns are still out there. Until we fix our national gun problem nothing can be done.

Hmm that's very interesting. There are all kinds of guns in my neighborhood in Virginia and we have no crime. Isn't that a conundrum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happens every time:

Court records show Isaiah Trotman was charged with assault and battery in November 2021, only to have those charges dismissed six months later by Albemarle County, Va., prosecutor Jim Hingeley.

We're doing this to ourselves electing people who deliberately keep madmen on the streets to kill. At least the people of Albemarle County were lucky to have him go kill somewhere else.

Isn't it amazing how many of the mentally-ill and dangerous homeless aren't from here? Can we stop being a magnet for this sort?

How do you know he is from Charlottesville? There is a pattern of DC residents committing violent crimes in college towns around the country, as we saw at the University of Alabama

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need to ban guns on metro.

We should ban shooting people too. That’s why this must’ve happened- he didn’t know it was against the law to shoot people.

Yes, I’m sure banning guns will work. No one ever gets shot in places where guns are banned. It literally NEVER happens. Ever.

Only 14% of shootings happen in gun-free zones, FYI.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The man who was murdered by a lunatic with a gun had 4 children. If anyone knows of a gofundme page please post it.

Go fund me pages violate the rules. But if you Google go fund me metro employee Cunningham you will find it.

Where’s the go fund me for the man in deep crisis?

The taxpayer will be funding him as he grows old, fully isolated and alone in prison.

That's too expensive. DC should hire him as a violence interrupter when he gets out in six months. He has on the job experience.