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Anonymous wrote:This is totally crazy. I've had many interactions with that guy, including a very scary period of time when he singled me out and would wait in front of my home for me to come out so he could follow me and spout gibberish. I called the cops, and they shooed him along and said that he has family in the area but refuses care. They (MPD) give him clothing sometimes. He was clearly always on the verge of attacking someone. What are we supposed to do?

My husband would’ve waited til dark, put on a gray hoodie and a mask, grabbed a baseball bat, and beaten the teeth out of that guy’s head and probably broken at least one of his hands. Along with a warning that if he was ever on that block again he’d be killed and put in a dumpster.

That’s my pyscho hubby and I LOVE him for it.

Begs the question where were the men in the area? No one saw this happening and intervened. Shame on any grown, able bodied man who was in the area at the time and didn’t engage this POS when he was beating women and sexually abusing kids. WTF?!!!!

Good Samaritans are disfavored in blue cities:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/us/daniel-penny-indicted-jordan-neely-chokehold/index.html

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Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy? His neighbors didn’t press charges because they were good human beings who didn’t want to see another Black man locked up or possibly killed.

We need to discuss mental health support above all else or this problem will not get better.

When's the last time you heard of a mentally ill woman exposing her genitals to children?

I am so tired of people excusing criminal and lewd behavior as "mental illness."

There’s a crazy woman over my the Anacostia Metro that routinely urinates, defecates and pleasures herself in front of the windows at the Thurgood Marshall Academy charter school.

I’ve personally seen her doing it on at least two dozen occasions.

So yes, it happens. Frequently.

Did you call the police EVERY SINGLE TIME or did you just shrug and go about your business.

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Anonymous wrote:I have t read this whole thread but if you see a Go Fund Me for these hero teachers please share. This is so horrifying.

Here you go:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hero-fund-for-petit-scholars-teachers

That’s not a GFM to pay for the specific teachers involved to pay medical bills. That is a GFM where the money goes directly to the director of PS who apparently will then split it evenly among all PS staff. It discloses that in the description.

My toddler goes to PS Bloomingdale and was present for the attack. Two teachers went to the hospital, but others were sexually assaulted by this individual as well. All of the teachers are understandably traumatized, and as a parent of one of these kids (he seems to be ok, thankfully) I can't express how grateful I am to these caregivers.

Also, for other commenters in this thread: Parker's office has been incredibly responsive and facilitated a ton of help for the parents. I think he would probably re-word his initial statement given the chance, but that was posted very soon after incident. He issued a follow-up statement later that clarified his office is working to ensure this guy is charged and not immediately released, which may very well have happened if he hadn't gotten involved and brought a lot of press attention.

Thank you for this info! I'm also in Zachary Parkers ward and I have to say I think he is really trying. Very glad that his efforts may help to ensure that Russell stays locked up somehow.

As a toddler parent, I just want to say I’m so sorry for what you, the staff and the kids went through. I can’t imagine how scary it was for the teachers, who are the sweetest women and treat the children with such love and care.

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Anonymous wrote:This is totally crazy. I've had many interactions with that guy, including a very scary period of time when he singled me out and would wait in front of my home for me to come out so he could follow me and spout gibberish. I called the cops, and they shooed him along and said that he has family in the area but refuses care. They (MPD) give him clothing sometimes. He was clearly always on the verge of attacking someone. What are we supposed to do?

My husband would’ve waited til dark, put on a gray hoodie and a mask, grabbed a baseball bat, and beaten the teeth out of that guy’s head and probably broken at least one of his hands. Along with a warning that if he was ever on that block again he’d be killed and put in a dumpster.

That’s my pyscho hubby and I LOVE him for it.

Begs the question where were the men in the area? No one saw this happening and intervened. Shame on any grown, able bodied man who was in the area at the time and didn’t engage this POS when he was beating women and sexually abusing kids. WTF?!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy? His neighbors didn’t press charges because they were good human beings who didn’t want to see another Black man locked up or possibly killed.

We need to discuss mental health support above all else or this problem will not get better.

When's the last time you heard of a mentally ill woman exposing her genitals to children?

I am so tired of people excusing criminal and lewd behavior as "mental illness."

There’s a crazy woman over my the Anacostia Metro that routinely urinates, defecates and pleasures herself in front of the windows at the Thurgood Marshall Academy charter school.

I’ve personally seen her doing it on at least two dozen occasions.

So yes, it happens. Frequently.

Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy?

Yep. I’m totally fine with hearing that this guy got “disappeared” one night and was never seen again. That’s totally ok with me.

We don’t have a shortage of human beings on planet earth. We’re not an endangered species where every living being is precious no matter how insane they are. Some people are just defective. And when their defects repeatedly intersect with other people’s safety - then they need to be disposed of.

I’m willing to give a loon like him two chances, which I think is more than fair, and possibly even still a dangerous burden for the rest of us to put up with. But after he F’s up a third time - he ends up in a shallow hole in the woods somewhere.

I’m not the least bit apologetic for feeling this way.

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Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy? His neighbors didn’t press charges because they were good human beings who didn’t want to see another Black man locked up or possibly killed.

We need to discuss mental health support above all else or this problem will not get better.

When's the last time you heard of a mentally ill woman exposing her genitals to children?

I am so tired of people excusing criminal and lewd behavior as "mental illness."

+1. Dis everyone read the story in the Metro section of the Post today about this? He bragged to the teacher as he was assaulting her that there would be no consequences

But sure. Let’s all worry about this worthless dirtbag and his “services.” I say, lock him up.

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Anonymous wrote:Why won't someone just shoot him already? Jesus, do us all a favor and make him gone.

He has family living in the area and he refuses to live with them (presumably because they require him to be safe/not an addict/etc).

If that's truly the case, then he needs to be hospitalized or in some way confined with oversight and supervision and medical support for the rest of his life.

How about a one bedroom in the Saratoga?

By confinement, i was including incarceration.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I have empathy for him. He’s clearly in a bad state with severe, untreated mental illness + drug addiction. But with those things he’s not safe to be on the street and we (the general public) aren’t safe with him being on the street. He also committed a crime, and it doesn’t matter if you’re out of your mind on drugs or alcohol or off your meds when you commit a crime - there are legal consequences including jail/prison time. After his sentence he should, IDEALLY, be committed for a period of time. But we don’t have the facilities for that … so he’ll probably serve 6 months or whatever for assault and then be back on the streets like nothing ever happened.

STOP leaving out the sex crimes. HE’S A SEX CRIMINAL AGAINST KIDS. This goes beyond him beating the two teachers. And you know it. You are sick.

I don’t understand the insulting of people who are on the same side as you, but ok. He needs consequences, I said as much. After the consequences he needs real help, mental health commitment + drug rehab. He probably won’t be able to live independently ever. Drug abuse changes your mental state permanently. So they need to have a plan for that or else he’s going to end up on the street offending again. Then we end up with the feel bad stories about “guy with severe untreated schizophrenia and a drug problem got arrested and thrown in jail for whatever, where he was mistreated by guards or other inmates and died as a result” and then we start the soft on crime nonsense which makes us all worse off.

Because you’re an incredible apologist and are glossing over the sex crime aspect. A repeated sex offender. For other people who are child sex abusers, ask yourself to you have empathy for them, do you say “they can’t help it”, etc., because this attitude is an insult to the millions is sex abuse victims. He needs intense sex offender therapy and possibly to never be on the streets.

The lead shouldn’t be he was on drugs, or that he has mental health issues, the lead is that he is well known, repeated child sex abuser (not just this week). Wake up. I want you to be safe, I want everyone to be safe.

I think that’s the difference. I’m too cynical. It doesn’t matter in the eyes of … basically everyone involved in the DC criminal Justice system, what his crimes were. Sex offenses, assault, being drugged out of mind, none of it seems to make a difference. The only offense that seems to really lock people up vs. serve a short sentence at most and then be released, is literal murder. They don’t give a s*** about anything else. I doubt he even hits the sex offender registry for this. The APS kid who filmed himself jumping out of the bushes and forcibly groping random women won’t end up on the registry, and that was in Virginia! And even then being on the registry only makes a difference if you’re trying to better your life and play by the rules, which a homeless drug addicted vagrant with serious mental illness is not. The only thing is to compel him to treatment after he serves a prison sentence. And the treatment would have to be lifelong because, again, people with his profile can’t support themselves. And I’m honestly not even clear if we can force people into treatment. It sounded like in the past he was supposed to get treatment but was non-compliant and then the system lost track of him.

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Anonymous wrote:Why won't someone just shoot him already? Jesus, do us all a favor and make him gone.

He has family living in the area and he refuses to live with them (presumably because they require him to be safe/not an addict/etc).

If that's truly the case, then he needs to be hospitalized or in some way confined with oversight and supervision and medical support for the rest of his life.

How about a one bedroom in the Saratoga?

Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy? His neighbors didn’t press charges because they were good human beings who didn’t want to see another Black man locked up or possibly killed.

We need to discuss mental health support above all else or this problem will not get better.

When's the last time you heard of a mentally ill woman exposing her genitals to children?

I am so tired of people excusing criminal and lewd behavior as "mental illness."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why won't someone just shoot him already? Jesus, do us all a favor and make him gone.

He has family living in the area and he refuses to live with them (presumably because they require him to be safe/not an addict/etc).

If that's truly the case, then he needs to be hospitalized or in some way confined with oversight and supervision and medical support for the rest of his life.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I have empathy for him. He’s clearly in a bad state with severe, untreated mental illness + drug addiction. But with those things he’s not safe to be on the street and we (the general public) aren’t safe with him being on the street. He also committed a crime, and it doesn’t matter if you’re out of your mind on drugs or alcohol or off your meds when you commit a crime - there are legal consequences including jail/prison time. After his sentence he should, IDEALLY, be committed for a period of time. But we don’t have the facilities for that … so he’ll probably serve 6 months or whatever for assault and then be back on the streets like nothing ever happened.

STOP leaving out the sex crimes. HE’S A SEX CRIMINAL AGAINST KIDS. This goes beyond him beating the two teachers. And you know it. You are sick.

I don’t understand the insulting of people who are on the same side as you, but ok. He needs consequences, I said as much. After the consequences he needs real help, mental health commitment + drug rehab. He probably won’t be able to live independently ever. Drug abuse changes your mental state permanently. So they need to have a plan for that or else he’s going to end up on the street offending again. Then we end up with the feel bad stories about “guy with severe untreated schizophrenia and a drug problem got arrested and thrown in jail for whatever, where he was mistreated by guards or other inmates and died as a result” and then we start the soft on crime nonsense which makes us all worse off.

Because you’re an incredible apologist and are glossing over the sex crime aspect. A repeated sex offender. For other people who are child sex abusers, ask yourself to you have empathy for them, do you say “they can’t help it”, etc., because this attitude is an insult to the millions is sex abuse victims. He needs intense sex offender therapy and possibly to never be on the streets.

The lead shouldn’t be he was on drugs, or that he has mental health issues, the lead is that he is well known, repeated child sex abuser (not just this week). Wake up. I want you to be safe, I want everyone to be safe.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I have empathy for him. He’s clearly in a bad state with severe, untreated mental illness + drug addiction. But with those things he’s not safe to be on the street and we (the general public) aren’t safe with him being on the street. He also committed a crime, and it doesn’t matter if you’re out of your mind on drugs or alcohol or off your meds when you commit a crime - there are legal consequences including jail/prison time. After his sentence he should, IDEALLY, be committed for a period of time. But we don’t have the facilities for that … so he’ll probably serve 6 months or whatever for assault and then be back on the streets like nothing ever happened.

STOP leaving out the sex crimes. HE’S A SEX CRIMINAL AGAINST KIDS. This goes beyond him beating the two teachers. And you know it. You are sick.

I don’t understand the insulting of people who are on the same side as you, but ok. He needs consequences, I said as much. After the consequences he needs real help, mental health commitment + drug rehab. He probably won’t be able to live independently ever. Drug abuse changes your mental state permanently. So they need to have a plan for that or else he’s going to end up on the street offending again. Then we end up with the feel bad stories about “guy with severe untreated schizophrenia and a drug problem got arrested and thrown in jail for whatever, where he was mistreated by guards or other inmates and died as a result” and then we start the soft on crime nonsense which makes us all worse off.

Anonymous wrote:This man needs psychological support and you are all more than willing to destroy his life over something that was likely out of his control.

He can’t help himself because he is mentally ill. You have no empathy? His neighbors didn’t press charges because they were good human beings who didn’t want to see another Black man locked up or possibly killed.

We need to discuss mental health support above all else or this problem will not get better.

PS parent again. His neighbors have pressed charges before. He is well-known and a frequent offender, usually masturbating in public but occasionally breaking in to people's homes or yards, or verbally accosting pedestrians. He has refused treatment.

I've lived here for a long time. It's one thing to be aware of your environment when walking the neighborhood, with the understanding that bad luck can come for any us at any time. It's really something else to sit at work and know that there are people in our community that would dare attack a group of teachers caring for 30 toddlers and infants. It's disorienting.