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Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

Martinez (and everyone else in the area) should have gone jogging with pepper spray in her hand, ready to go.

I cannot see any other way to save yourself if a crazy guy attacks you with a knive.

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who wants to move back home has a good point - many places in the world are safer, either because they have more community or because honestly - their law enforcement is much more heavy handed. See how long you last walking down a the street muttering threats with a knife in a police state. DC specifically has some reasonable and legitimate crime strategies we could put in place - LEGISLATING hospitalisation of the mentally ill (it is going to come out that this guy had MULTIPLE warning signs), reducing our revolving door youth adjudication in DC specifically (responsible for nuisance crimes that escalate to serious violence , often in already traumatized neighborhoods) and the need for clear CCTV operated by the city- we have traffic cams to make money every third light, but for real crime I'm so tired of grainy business surveillance videos that good defense lawyers can make a hash out of.

This is an excellent point. So much is acceptable in DC that would not be tolerated in many other US cities.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

Martinez (and everyone else in the area) should have gone jogging with pepper spray in her hand, ready to go.

I cannot see any other way to save yourself if a crazy guy attacks you with a knive.

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

A kid in sports gear, running at 8 pm at night all by herself? Not likely.
My gut is telling me this was not a random act.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

A kid in sports gear, running at 8 pm at night all by herself? Not likely.
My gut is telling me this was not a random act.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

A kid in sports gear, running at 8 pm at night all by herself? Not likely.
My gut is telling me this was not a random act.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have they released a picture of the suspect?

Yes

Anonymous wrote:As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.

Anonymous wrote:Have they released a picture of the suspect?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would change.org be the correct vehicle for petitioning Bowser and Norton and her pals in Congress?

Petitioning them for what?

Making murder double-illegal?


What could've prevented this? Answer: nothing.


You can't go around locking up mentally ill people because you're scared of them, or think they *might* do something one day, but so far haven't.

Until people prove themselves a danger, we cannot as a society punish or confine them. We just can't.

Sometimes the first time they prove they're a danger, it's something like yesterday. That's unfortunate. But it's a rarity, not the rule. Most of the time they start with less serious things, and we need to identify and intervene rapidly when these people with these traits present themselves. But you simply cannot jail people preemptively.

Personally, I'd like to see every republican and self identified conservative confined to prison camps or exiled somewhere or frankly just disposed of. But I'm a minority opinion holder in that regard (at least for now). And I have to respect the views of those who profess that we should maintain a more civil discourse on this, for as long as the dominant opinion is that way. Same with how we handle the mentally ill, ironically.

We can't just lock them up. It's wrong. It costs us our humanity if we do that. It allows the worse side of our nature to win, and we can't do that.

You personally would like to see the half of all voters who disagree with your liberal policies sent to prison? That's some nice, non-devivise attitude right there.