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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t care if the are technically allowed in sidewalks, the riders should yield to pedestrians. Instead many/most of them act like the scooters have a mind of their own and that they have no control over them. People ride them too fast in  places that are crowded[/quote]

Pedestrians in the key word. Walking or moving along on the sidewalk. The parents had the kid playing on the sitting walk in front of their house - most likely sitting sedentary with chalk or some other implement.

So not only did the scooter driver have the right to drive on the sidewalk, they had the right to not be blocked by someone. Its the same principle as street vendors not being allowed to set up tables blocking public access to a thoroughfare.

The parents were in the wrong.[/quote]

This is an insane point of view.  Bikes and scooters on the sidewalks have to yield to pedestrians.  It's actually the law in DC, and it's also basic common sense.  https://ddot.dc.gov/page/ddot-bicycle-and-pedestrian-safety

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Agreed, and it’s also important to understand the nature of the neighborhood. This is an area where row houses sit close to the sidewalks and families often play and socialize on their stoops and in the sidewalk. To say the family is “in the wrong” for using the sidewalk in front of their house the way many people in that neighborhood use it, and the way people in dense urban neighborhoods have ALWAYS used the sidewalk, is bizarre. Scooters have been around a few years. Kids in that neighborhood and many others have been sitting in sidewalks playing with chalk or whatever for decades.

Obviously the guy on the scooter was in the wrong, even before he decided to SHOOT A PARENT AND CHILD. Come on.[/quote]

Some people will just never ascribe fault to violent criminals. This is such an obvious example of why "violence interruptors" are not enough to fix DC. Anyone who would shoot a child is a depraved lunatic. You can interrupt him all day and he will remain a violence lunatic. These people need to be locked up and throw away the key[/quote]

+1. [b]It’s amazing to me how many people think those who hold opposing political views to them are irredeemable dregs of society but yet also believe that violent criminals are unfortunate victims of society whose behavior should be excused.[/b] [/quote]

This. [/quote]

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