Anonymous wrote:So we still dont know if any understanding will be generated from this case - what happened, what are the consequences, what can happen so tourists not get jumped by groups of young people in the doorway of a major hotel and our city be a nationwide freakshow?

Really? A nationwide freak show?
Lol I know you trying to hammer your point home about how disturbing this incident was but give the overdramatics a rest.
It’s not the apocalypse we ain’t at DEFCON 1 and thousands of tourists poor into the city daily who are more stressed about getting directions to the Mall than about getting jumped outside their hotel. Take it down a notch or at the very least stop trying to hype folks up to your level of panic.

So we still dont know if any understanding will be generated from this case - what happened, what are the consequences, what can happen so tourists not get jumped by groups of young people in the doorway of a major hotel and our city be a nationwide freakshow?

Anonymous wrote:When’s the last time you saw some white thugs? Or some asian thugs? Or some hispanic thugs? Or some gay thugs?

Not on TV or on the web. In-person only, here in the dc area?


Now, when was the last time you saw black thugs here?

In 2007, when white thugs ruined the economy

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Anonymous wrote:When’s the last time you saw some white thugs? Or some asian thugs? Or some hispanic thugs? Or some gay thugs?

Not on TV or on the web. In-person only, here in the dc area?


Now, when was the last time you saw black thugs here?

This is DC. I see Latino thugs all the time.

I’ve seen a group of Asian thugs in both NYC and Virginia. What’s your point. Thugs come in all races. And please, the word thugs was coined by a group of white thugs, so what is PPP attempting to obfuscate?

Anonymous wrote:When’s the last time you saw some white thugs? Or some asian thugs? Or some hispanic thugs? Or some gay thugs?

Not on TV or on the web. In-person only, here in the dc area?


Now, when was the last time you saw black thugs here?

This is DC. I see Latino thugs all the time.

When’s the last time you saw some white thugs? Or some asian thugs? Or some hispanic thugs? Or some gay thugs?

Not on TV or on the web. In-person only, here in the dc area?


Now, when was the last time you saw black thugs here?

I am Asian poster. I hate Black thugs, White thugs, Hispanic thugs, Asian thugs and any-other-race-gender-age-disability-sexual-orientation thugs.

And thugs should get their comeuppance and be thrown in prisons.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp you need to take a breath. No one is saying its just one groups thing. Not sure where you are getting that from. It is a possible motive for a random violent attack. As you proved above.

Far from worked up no pause to "take a breath" needed. I simply decided to point out to the previous posters in this thread who were insistent about pushing the narrative that it’s primarily a “black thing” to be intolerant of gays and that it's mainly a “black thing” to use violence against people who don’t subscribe to heteronormative ideals and gender roles that they are WRONG. Intolerance is a human thing and violence is a human thing meaning it's pervasive among all races and all ethnicities and it's worldwide. Just two weeks ago an angry mob was throwing bricks, stones, and fireworks at marchers in the first gay pride parade in Bialystock, Poland and it damn sure wadn't a mob full of black folks.

Nobody said "primarily". You inserted that and then have been arguing against it ever since.

You lie. That poster first said it was a hate crime due to race. When it was determined that both victims were black, that poster changed it to gay bashing. The poster then said that the AA community was homophobic, as if her own white community isn’t.

The point is, as the two or 3 perps caught are juvies, we will never know why, or if they were charged, or what they were charged with.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp you need to take a breath. No one is saying its just one groups thing. Not sure where you are getting that from. It is a possible motive for a random violent attack. As you proved above.

Far from worked up no pause to "take a breath" needed. I simply decided to point out to the previous posters in this thread who were insistent about pushing the narrative that it’s primarily a “black thing” to be intolerant of gays and that it's mainly a “black thing” to use violence against people who don’t subscribe to heteronormative ideals and gender roles that they are WRONG. Intolerance is a human thing and violence is a human thing meaning it's pervasive among all races and all ethnicities and it's worldwide. Just two weeks ago an angry mob was throwing bricks, stones, and fireworks at marchers in the first gay pride parade in Bialystock, Poland and it damn sure wadn't a mob full of black folks.

Nobody said "primarily". You inserted that and then have been arguing against it ever since.

You lie. That poster first said it was a hate crime due to race. When it was determined that both victims were black, that poster changed it to gay bashing. The poster then said that the AA community was homophobic, as if her own white community isn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:why would they attack them for being gay? It's DuPont, there's tons of gay people everywhere. Why attack just this guy?

How would we know??

Sadly, homophobia is still rampant in AA urban communities. Some are woke, and some are not.

I don’t understand the use of the term homophobia in this context. A large segment of the AA community hates the gays based on religious beliefs. Few are afraid of gays.

JFC, do you HEAR yourself?

Do you understand how racist you sound!?!?

The phrase “on the down low” exists for a reason.

That has what to do with anything?

The problem we’re here isn’t the AA community’s take on homosexuality, it’s your racism. Stop deflecting.

NP - Huh? There are endless tales in DC about black-on-gay verbal and physical abuse.

Was that the reason for the assault? Who told you? How do you know? Unless you have some conclusive evidence that the assault was predicated on hatred towards gays stop trying to push this argument.

You're talking to different people PP, and no one is pushing an argument. i personally hope there was a motive( even if unjustified), not randomly and savagely attacking? People are just wondering what the motive could ve. And there is a known challenge for gays in conservative AA christian communities, as in other conservative communities - not just xtian obvi. I say this both as a Christian and also friend to a black male in this predicament.

And all the white evangelicals, Baptist and Catholics are so accepting to the white LGBTs. I’m sure your one Black gay friend speaks for all the AA in your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:why would they attack them for being gay? It's DuPont, there's tons of gay people everywhere. Why attack just this guy?

How would we know??

Sadly, homophobia is still rampant in AA urban communities. Some are woke, and some are not.

I don’t understand the use of the term homophobia in this context. A large segment of the AA community hates the gays based on religious beliefs. Few are afraid of gays.

Whatever word you like. I dont know its hate , but yes there is a lack of acceptance/ridicule/ shunning in some circles.

Yes, including white circles.

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Anonymous wrote:why would they attack them for being gay? It's DuPont, there's tons of gay people everywhere. Why attack just this guy?

How would we know??

Sadly, homophobia is still rampant in AA urban communities. Some are woke, and some are not.

Please. I am so sick of white people spewing their hatred about African Americans, Black people period. To back in your cave PP. Homophobia is rampant in America period, including among the white population. If it was so acceptable among whites, republican gays and lesbians would step out of their closets and into the sunshine. They would stop hiding in bathroom stalls.

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Anonymous wrote:Because of the racism, duh. The white nationalists who are jumping on this as a way to claim that black people are animals who should be shot or run from in fear.

Are you defending a bunch of teenage thugs for attacking a gay black man outside of a hotel just because they are black? Are you accusing others who find this unacceptable of being racists?? SMH.

No, that never happened. Just in your racist imagination.

So the video is just make believe and that DC is the land of lollipops, puppies and unicorns? Phew! Heading down to DC right now!

Nobody said that. not a SINGLE person has denied what happened or argued that prosecuting the kids would be racist. Not a single person.

Again, what they reacted to was the white nationalists saying that we should run away from/shoot all black people.

As a matter of actual fact, violent crime is down 2% so far this year in DC.

Police keep their own records; they lie and juke the data.

Correct. The only stat the police cannot fudge is the homicide stat. When I was attacked, knocked to the ground and asked for my watch, the MPD classified it as a misdemeanor simple assault. When I asked the officer why it was not an attempted robbery or agg batt, he said because I didn’t have a watch on and I did not see a weapon. Incredulous. MPD only report stats on felonies, so it is in their best interest to mislabel felonies to misdemeanors.

Anonymous wrote: rise of/non-prosecution of hate crimes in the District.

Who the hell appointed this loser DA for DC? She sucks!!

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Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this thread correctly 99.999% of the posters who are getting their jollies off bashing all the black youth in DC don’t even live in the District and are too frightened to step foot in the District so, no disrespect, but f__k their opinion ons. Y’all don’t live here, y’all don’t come here, and considering your xenophobic attitudes y’all ain’t welcome here so...

Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce the crime in DC?

do you? so far the xenophobes have suggested summary execution and running away from all black people.

Yes, I do. I live in the city very close to where this latest incident occurred. Stop saying that prosecuting these crimes is racist, for one. Prosecute all of the offenders in the same, fair way. In the video, it looked like to me that some of the kids were white. I personally do not care whether they are black, white, Asian. I care about the fact that these are violent crimes happening all over the city. Why is the DC Council and the AG not more worried about these crimes?

Oh bullsh*t. Please cite ONE person here who said the kids shouldn't be prosecuted. Nobody said that. On the other hand, the white nationalists here said that you should run away from all black kids, or just be armed to shoot into the crowd. What this PP said is that the racists who don't live in DC have nothing useful to contribute.

DC has been extremely soft on these types of crimes lately and we are all expressing concern. Get our head out of the sand.

Not only is DC soft on crimes committed by juveniles, DC also make it extremely difficult for parents to discipline their children to prevent such incidents. Go into the middle schools and listen to how the students school each other on what their parents can and cannot do to them. I recall overhearing a twelve-year-old student tell one of his friends to call 911 if his parents hit him or took away his phone. The boys were Waiting to see the dean because they had just picked on another student. I shook my head and kept walking. These kids know the system better than the adults and DC police are complicit. Maybe it’s to ensure MPD will always stay employed, for these kids will grow into the adult penal system.