Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See the curious case of Demonte Gibson, for example. This young gentleman was just charged with First Degree Murder While Armed. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-2021-homicide-2800-block-14th-street-northwest

Last year, he was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun). The gentleman was also charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-assault-dangerous-weapon-gun-offense-1400-block-fairmont-street-northwest

Several years prior, he was charged with Robbery- Force and Violence. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/additional-arrests-made-robbery-force-and-violence-2800-block-15th-street-northwest

As someone who is admittedly ignorant of the inner workings of DC’s legal system, can anyone explain to me why this gentleman was a free man and able to commit a murder given the two serious priors?

Does the democrats plan to defund the police come to your mind at all OP?

Voting DEM has it consequences. Now see and enjoy the increase in crime, more beggars...

Any maybe by next election you will get it.

So this guy is arrested in 2016 by the DC MPD (funded by the overwhelming Democratic DC Council) and then inexplicably not prosecuted by the US Attorney appointed by Trump (a Republican). And then he commits a couple more crimes in 2021, and is again arrested by DC MPD (now with a much higher budget thanks to the Democratic DC Council) and this time is prosecuted by the US Attorney appointed by Biden (a Democrat). And somehow this is Democrats' fault?

How do you know he wasn’t prosecuted for the 2016 arrest?

Anonymous wrote:Remember when DC released a teenaged serial killer who killed and shot multiple people in a span of only a few months? Restorative justice in action:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teen-suspect-in-4-dc-killings-had-been-released-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-sources-say/2342734/

That kid was 16 and rightfully charged as an adult by the US Attorney. A year later, Racine and the Council proposed to remove USAO discretion to try 16 and 17 year olds as adults.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-juvenile-prosecutions/2021/07/05/79203886-db48-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

Remember when DC released a teenaged serial killer who killed and shot multiple people in a span of only a few months? Restorative justice in action:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teen-suspect-in-4-dc-killings-had-been-released-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-sources-say/2342734/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See the curious case of Demonte Gibson, for example. This young gentleman was just charged with First Degree Murder While Armed. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-2021-homicide-2800-block-14th-street-northwest

Last year, he was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun). The gentleman was also charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-assault-dangerous-weapon-gun-offense-1400-block-fairmont-street-northwest

Several years prior, he was charged with Robbery- Force and Violence. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/additional-arrests-made-robbery-force-and-violence-2800-block-15th-street-northwest

As someone who is admittedly ignorant of the inner workings of DC’s legal system, can anyone explain to me why this gentleman was a free man and able to commit a murder given the two serious priors?

Does the democrats plan to defund the police come to your mind at all OP?

Voting DEM has it consequences. Now see and enjoy the increase in crime, more beggars...

Any maybe by next election you will get it.

So this guy is arrested in 2016 by the DC MPD (funded by the overwhelming Democratic DC Council) and then inexplicably not prosecuted by the US Attorney appointed by Trump (a Republican). And then he commits a couple more crimes in 2021, and is again arrested by DC MPD (now with a much higher budget thanks to the Democratic DC Council) and this time is prosecuted by the US Attorney appointed by Biden (a Democrat). And somehow this is Democrats' fault?

Anonymous wrote:See the curious case of Demonte Gibson, for example. This young gentleman was just charged with First Degree Murder While Armed. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-2021-homicide-2800-block-14th-street-northwest

Last year, he was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun). The gentleman was also charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-assault-dangerous-weapon-gun-offense-1400-block-fairmont-street-northwest

Several years prior, he was charged with Robbery- Force and Violence. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/additional-arrests-made-robbery-force-and-violence-2800-block-15th-street-northwest

As someone who is admittedly ignorant of the inner workings of DC’s legal system, can anyone explain to me why this gentleman was a free man and able to commit a murder given the two serious priors?

Does the democrats plan to defund the police come to your mind at all OP?

Voting DEM has it consequences. Now see and enjoy the increase in crime, more beggars...

Any maybe by next election you will get it.

OP Who did you vote for in the last election?


YOU are the part of the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See the curious case of Demonte Gibson, for example. This young gentleman was just charged with First Degree Murder While Armed. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-2021-homicide-2800-block-14th-street-northwest

Last year, he was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun). The gentleman was also charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-assault-dangerous-weapon-gun-offense-1400-block-fairmont-street-northwest

Several years prior, he was charged with Robbery- Force and Violence. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/additional-arrests-made-robbery-force-and-violence-2800-block-15th-street-northwest

As someone who is admittedly ignorant of the inner workings of DC’s legal system, can anyone explain to me why this gentleman was a free man and able to commit a murder given the two serious priors?

I'd imagine that this happened because the DC legal system is incapable of time travel. The murder happened in Nov. 2021. The assault and related charges came out of an incident in December 2021, a month after the murder.

I blame the progressives for this. If they didn’t defund the police, we’d have time travel by now. Also, they could just do what republicans want and shoot black people before they’ve committed any crimes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats don’t believe the consequences will be felt in their gated communities

I’m sorry the former Republican president of the US is a huge criminal with 141 House members sitting in congress

Let’s talk about criminal Paxton in Texas or Rick Scott who is a major criminal and both taxpayers pay their legal bills and their penalties

Shut up

Yes, but none of them to my knowledge has been carjacking drivers.

Right? How about we focus on actual tangible things like violent crime reduction. It sucks some fundies in Texas are politicians who funnel money, but as a dc resident I’m a little more worried that Charles Allen and the progressive wackos want to lower penalties for car jacking and let violent criminals out of jail earlier. I get it. I get it. You’ll say that increasing penalties doesn’t reduce crime. And then I’ll say “yes it does” and the we go round and round and crime keeps going up. Then when dc returns to 1990 crime levels the pendulum will swing the other way and oversteer toward a harsher crackdown and blah blah blah the cycle of life continues, and you will have learned nothing, forgotten about this discussion and it will be 10 years away from now.

Long story short is that we’re in this period where “unconscious bias on arrest” is, according to progressive criminal justice reformers, more to blame for lopsided stats and not actual accountability for one’s own behavior. Let’s see how it all pans out in the next presidential election. Repubs will hammer home crime. They’re already doing it by forcing a vote on the dc bill. Sadly, I am actually with them on this. One can be liberal but still aghast at a laissez fair attitude toward crime. I’ve lived in this town my whole life, why y’all wanna fk it up more by letting criminals out earlier, forcing tons of jury trials that will overwhelm the courts and simply lead to no prosecution and lowering car jacking penalties? I get it: you’re super hip to woke criminal Justice, but it makes actual non violent citizens less safe.

Anonymous wrote:See the curious case of Demonte Gibson, for example. This young gentleman was just charged with First Degree Murder While Armed. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-2021-homicide-2800-block-14th-street-northwest

Last year, he was charged with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon (Gun). The gentleman was also charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-assault-dangerous-weapon-gun-offense-1400-block-fairmont-street-northwest

Several years prior, he was charged with Robbery- Force and Violence. See below:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/additional-arrests-made-robbery-force-and-violence-2800-block-15th-street-northwest

As someone who is admittedly ignorant of the inner workings of DC’s legal system, can anyone explain to me why this gentleman was a free man and able to commit a murder given the two serious priors?

I'd imagine that this happened because the DC legal system is incapable of time travel. The murder happened in Nov. 2021. The assault and related charges came out of an incident in December 2021, a month after the murder.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats don’t believe the consequences will be felt in their gated communities

I’m sorry the former Republican president of the US is a huge criminal with 141 House members sitting in congress

Let’s talk about criminal Paxton in Texas or Rick Scott who is a major criminal and both taxpayers pay their legal bills and their penalties

Shut up

Yes, but none of them to my knowledge has been carjacking drivers.

Anonymous wrote:It's restorative/progressive criminal justice. You voted for it, so what'd you'd expect?

This.

Incarceration is inequitable or whatever so progressive criminal justice reform is essentially leniency to improve things.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats don’t believe the consequences will be felt in their gated communities

I’m sorry the former Republican president of the US is a huge criminal with 141 House members sitting in congress

Let’s talk about criminal Paxton in Texas or Rick Scott who is a major criminal and both taxpayers pay their legal bills and their penalties

Shut up

We’re talking about local violent crimes and the DC criminal system, and you deflect to Trump? Take your meds.

Anonymous wrote:There are many examples like this across the country.

You can thank "progressive" DAs who decide not to prosecute serious crimes and progressive lawmakers who craft laws that allow repeat offenders out on the street before the arresting officer completes the paper work.

In these localities, the criminal is the victim.

Cases like this prove to me that many on the left don't really believe in "gun control." If they did, they would ensure that people like this criminal is unable to get his hands on another firearm instead of working to take away the rights from law abiding citizens.

Well, it’s a two way street. I’m super liberal and there are a lot of things I would support to keep someone like this from getting a gun, especially making them more traceable, requiring insurance and more involved licensing, and holding straw purchasers accountable, etc etc. But they’re mostly blocked by right wingers with a Rambo fantasy (and sometimes legitimately by the Constitution). There is actually a LOT of reasonable middle ground that has been thoroughly blocked by the NRA, so gun control advocates are left with the only tools they have, which are usually about adding gun related charges after the crime has been committed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats don’t believe the consequences will be felt in their gated communities

I’m sorry the former Republican president of the US is a huge criminal with 141 House members sitting in congress

Let’s talk about criminal Paxton in Texas or Rick Scott who is a major criminal and both taxpayers pay their legal bills and their penalties

Shut up

did they murder anyone ? Holy whataboutism . Why should society pay the price for your felon fetish

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats don’t believe the consequences will be felt in their gated communities

I’m sorry the former Republican president of the US is a huge criminal with 141 House members sitting in congress

Let’s talk about criminal Paxton in Texas or Rick Scott who is a major criminal and both taxpayers pay their legal bills and their penalties

Shut up

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