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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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? [/quote]
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[/quote]

It sounds like he’s actually lived in DC for a while:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/02/potomac-avenue-metro-shooting-suspect/

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This story is so sad on so many levels.  Like with many other shootings, there were a lot of missed opportunities.  He was arrested for vandalizing plants in a hotel lobby -- clearly mentally deranged -- but just let go with an order to return in April for a hearing. His therapist called the police to ask for a welfare check (and therapists almost never call the police, so you know it must have been bad) -- the police walked around the house, didn't see anyone, so did nothing further., didn't return, didn't send a social worker to check on him, nothing.   Did anyone put a red flag on him for gun purchases?  Where did he get the gun he had?  Legally purchased?

I have said this many many times, but it is astounding to me that someone can make an anonymous report to CPS that you might be mistreating your kids, and there will be social workers inspecting your house, interviewing your family, and they may take away tour kids for 72 hours until you get a due process hearing.  But someoen says "Hey, this guy seems like he might be violent and crazy, and he probably shouldn't have access to a gun" and no one even interviews the guy, much less takes away their guns.  You have a constitutional right to your kids -- why is the constitutional right to guns entitled to so much more deference?  [/quote]

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