Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:20     Subject: Re:Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:we need more cameras in the city. It took them forever to catch the killer of the young man at the gas station nearby to this locaction. The city needs to encourage businesses to have cameras and have their own working crime deterrance cameras. We don't have enough in this city.


I'm all for it. Every time I watch a British crime drama I wonder why we don't have cameras on every corner, every block, every 100 ft.


Especially with masks now, it's very difficult to catch perps. multi-cameras can help track them from their unguarded moments, like before they put on the mask. The DC camera program is entirely focused on fines, not even on traffic crime like carjacking. Just traffic fines. We need to improve this. Our city already has a target on it - why do we not blanket major cooridors and sites with cameras, I do not know. No will to deter here.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:19     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This country and its guns….horrible.


+1,000,000

Heavily armed areas of the country (where people hunt, etc.) do NOT have the same type of gun violence that has been rampant in DC in the last 2 years. It's not guns. It's people. It's social climate. Culture.




uh? are you nuts? IT IS GUNS. even in areas where people hunt. did oyu forget Sandy Hook? that was not a urban area and the lady was a gun enthusiast. Virginia tech was hardly in an inner city. plenty of gun deaths everywhere, accidents, guns left around and found by kids, suicides, armed people getting into arguments and shooting. it's guns. i am from Europe, we have problems, poor people, angry people, crazy people, criminals and there is nowhere near the amount of deaths. IT IS THE F-ING GUNS
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:18     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:Just this week alone in tony Forest Hills:
A man wielding an iron bar and attempting to break into the Peruvian Amassador’s residence was shot and killed. A woman with her legs bound was pushed out/ jumped from the eighth floor of 4500 Connecticut Ave NW and now this.


....hey look at that shiny object over there in the corner!! nothing going on here....it's your crazy imagination.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:18     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:Just this week alone in tony Forest Hills:
A man wielding an iron bar and attempting to break into the Peruvian Amassador’s residence was shot and killed. A woman with her legs bound was pushed out/ jumped from the eighth floor of 4500 Connecticut Ave NW and now this.


Also this week, within a couple of blocks, the guy who bound a woman's legs and threw her out a 7th storey window and drove off with the toddler.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:15     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Just this week alone in tony Forest Hills:
A man wielding an iron bar and attempting to break into the Peruvian Amassador’s residence was shot and killed. A woman with her legs bound was pushed out/ jumped from the eighth floor of 4500 Connecticut Ave NW and now this.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:15     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know. Shootings all over the rest of the city never get a response anything close to this.


A hailfire of bullets went into a school. Kids are sheltered in place. Please don't pretend that wouldn't get a response ANYWHERE in the city. Equity arguments have addled your perspective.


It's horrific that this involves a school with multiple other schools nearby. There should be a big police and emergency response. But the emergency vehicles are stacked curb to curb from Porter St. to Albemarle. Half a mile or more. That's just crazy.


That's how this area is around this time on a Friday. Walking is faster.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:14     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know. Shootings all over the rest of the city never get a response anything close to this.


A hailfire of bullets went into a school. Kids are sheltered in place. Please don't pretend that wouldn't get a response ANYWHERE in the city. Equity arguments have addled your perspective.


It's horrific that this involves a school with multiple other schools nearby. There should be a big police and emergency response. But the emergency vehicles are stacked curb to curb from Porter St. to Albemarle. Half a mile or more. That's just crazy.


A shooter with an automatic weapon who fired shots at a school is on the loose and you think they're overdoing it?


My god - someone shoots into a school, hitting at least one student, is STILL ON THE LOOSE WITH THE AUTOMATIC WEAPON, there are kids sheltering in place, there are embassies and other schools as well as a daycare within the block, and you think it doesn't need an overwhelming police presence????? Sure, let's just let him run away?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:13     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know. Shootings all over the rest of the city never get a response anything close to this.


A hailfire of bullets went into a school. Kids are sheltered in place. Please don't pretend that wouldn't get a response ANYWHERE in the city. Equity arguments have addled your perspective.


It's horrific that this involves a school with multiple other schools nearby. There should be a big police and emergency response. But the emergency vehicles are stacked curb to curb from Porter St. to Albemarle. Half a mile or more. That's just crazy.


A shooter with an automatic weapon who fired shots at a school is on the loose and you think they're overdoing it?


Exactly! The PP can’t get her evening cocktail and is annoyed at the police presence.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:12     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This country and its guns….horrible.


+1,000,000

Heavily armed areas of the country (where people hunt, etc.) do NOT have the same type of gun violence that has been rampant in DC in the last 2 years. It's not guns. It's people. It's social climate. Culture.


Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:10     Subject: Re:Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:we need more cameras in the city. It took them forever to catch the killer of the young man at the gas station nearby to this locaction. The city needs to encourage businesses to have cameras and have their own working crime deterrance cameras. We don't have enough in this city.


I'm all for it. Every time I watch a British crime drama I wonder why we don't have cameras on every corner, every block, every 100 ft.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:08     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know. Shootings all over the rest of the city never get a response anything close to this.


A hailfire of bullets went into a school. Kids are sheltered in place. Please don't pretend that wouldn't get a response ANYWHERE in the city. Equity arguments have addled your perspective.


It's horrific that this involves a school with multiple other schools nearby. There should be a big police and emergency response. But the emergency vehicles are stacked curb to curb from Porter St. to Albemarle. Half a mile or more. That's just crazy.


A shooter with an automatic weapon who fired shots at a school is on the loose and you think they're overdoing it?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:07     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:Schools are on lockdown



This is awful but let’s remember when everyone is judging and badmouthing other urban schools that this can happen to you too!
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:07     Subject: Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:They say they're authenticating the video but it looks real to me. If you pause it, the Clue poster you see in the beginning says Clue The Burke Edition.


Yes, very clear to me from the video that the shooting was from the apartment building into the glass walkway. Which is corroborated by the eyewitness accounts on local news.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:07     Subject: Re:Shooting at or near Burke HS?
we need more cameras in the city. It took them forever to catch the killer of the young man at the gas station nearby to this locaction. The city needs to encourage businesses to have cameras and have their own working crime deterrance cameras. We don't have enough in this city.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2022 18:06     Subject: Re:Shooting at or near Burke HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:That video is horrific. I hope the people who were shot were not seriously injured, but I haven't seen any reports about their condition.


3 are hospitalized and stable - but 2 are in critical condition.

Police are going door to door in the neighborhood and the apartment buildings and escorting people out.

The kids at Edmund Burke are sheltering in the theater and police are with them.


Please don't share specific locations where kids are in these situations. Just say that police are with them and they are safe.

PP didn't share anything that they're not saying on the news.


And its irresponsible of news reporters to be sharing specific locations.