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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how tame this thread is compared to (1) hispanic kids from Marshall in a car accident and (2) middle eastern kid from Oakton in a car accident. I wonder what the difference is? Oh, this kid is blonde and comes from a military family.[/quote]

I dare say this is the only reasonable statement in this entire thread. If anyone doubts systematic racism or the different ways we treat children of differnt races, they are blind.

Why was the kid outside at 3am with a gun? There is no excuse for that. I have a DC teen. You bet your bottom dollar i know where they are and whose house they are at. And if i dont trust the friend's parents, they won't go.

I love how everyone is forgiving the parents. If your kid sneaks out at night, set up cameras. Alarm the door. Find drugs in his room, get him help. This family is well resources. But lots of people on this list will find escuses for this family and this blonde teen thanks to his lack of melinated skin.[/quote]

Well as a DC resident, I think the lack of attention is completely in line with how every shooting death is a blip on the horizon now, barely reported unless there is something truly noteworthy like it was a small child or in an unusual place. This was a shooting after some kind of beef on U st at 3am. Unfortunately a fairly regular occurrence and most people’s reaction is “Well I don’t hang out on U st at 3am so does not impact me.” Sadly if the shooter were black this would get even LESS coverage than it has. I think the only U st shooting that got coverage recently was where the shooter was like 15 yrs old and shot into a crowd during a Juneteenth event: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/dc-police-arrest-teenage-suspect-mass-shooting-juneteenth/story?id=88585993[/quote]

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