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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else a member of this Facebook group and a Hill resident? A lady’s house was shot by kids with paintballs and she posted her anguish on the Facebook page. This paintball issue happened multiple times to the same resident. Instead of the group members being supportive, most of them told her not to calm the police to find the kids that did it because of the potential for the kids to go to jail or worse and because of potential police brutality.

I read the postings on this Facebook group a lot to stayinformed about local issues. I’m kind of concerned based on reading many of the responses to thud and other posts that we’re getting to a place where self flagellation is somehow expected. As if living in a city, and this probably directed to gentrifiers in dc, you’re supposed to just be a victim of crime and not call the police. Are many people like this now and it’s racist to call the cops? Or are these posts just virtue signaling? Basically if you call the cops now when you’re assaulted or whatever you are the one who’s bad? There have been other posts like this on the group where someone was hurt or verbally assaulted, posted their sad story online, only to be lectured to by some kid who merely says “don’t call the cops” you should just grin and bear it.

I’d post my annoyance on the groups page, but honestly the mods would probably kick me off for being “rude” or something.[/quote]

Basically kids were walking around with paintball guns (in the cold snow) shooting things. Paintballs can freeze and really hurt. Also, this is the same neighborhood where kids were lighting leaves on fire under cars, there has been a large increase in car jackings, etc…so when I read posters encouraging victims to just move on and not do anything like tell the police I’m kind of surprised. The kids were on camera.[/quote]

These are really just childish pranks.[/quote]

Arson is not a prank.[/quote]

Oh please.

So they lit a couple of leaves on fire.  MYOB.

Besides, what does the city provide for these kids to do?  Nothing?

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People are always saying how there is all this stuff to do in the city... and it's vibrant and lively and fun. And yet I feel like these same people are the ones saying these kids have nothing to do so it is OK they commit crimes.[/quote]

I think this is partly why, and I’m a liberal on most issues, republicans are going to win the midterms. The woke contingent, in an effort to redress past racial terribleness, are asking folks to ignore “petty criminality” in an effort to avoid incarceration. All that does is show people they can commit crime with impunity. Whether it’s Charles Allen blaming the city for taking too long to suck up fallen leaves and not the kids who lit the leaves on fire under cars, or whether it’s a bunch of self flagellating idiots on the New Hill East Facebook group who seem to think we should all just not make a fuss about paintballs being shot at us. It’s nuts and I see many young people who have joined the bandwagon on this groupthink. Where are we going to be in 20 years if the young generation just seems to not care because it’s socially conscious not to lock anyone up or see them face consequences.[/quote]

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