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Anonymous wrote:My kid saw it happen. Teens jumping another teen. A friend tried to stop them from beating up the kid and when they wouldn’t, he pulled out a gun.

Horrific scene, see by kids from Latin(s), WLA, Perry, Truth, Brookland Middle.

So the killer was trying to help?

I wasn’t there but it seems reasonable to me that he may not have intended to shoot. He’s a kid with a gun. It’s predictable that something might go wrong there. If that’s what happened, I do feel bad for the shooter. Some of these kids get guns from the adults in their lives because they think they need them to protect themselves. It’s all so screwed up.

Did you feel such sympathy for, say, the parkland shooter?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid saw it happen. Teens jumping another teen. A friend tried to stop them from beating up the kid and when they wouldn’t, he pulled out a gun.

Horrific scene, see by kids from Latin(s), WLA, Perry, Truth, Brookland Middle.

So the killer was trying to help?

I wasn’t there but it seems reasonable to me that he may not have intended to shoot. He’s a kid with a gun. It’s predictable that something might go wrong there. If that’s what happened, I do feel bad for the shooter. Some of these kids get guns from the adults in their lives because they think they need them to protect themselves. It’s all so screwed up.

Anonymous wrote:The girls who are under arrest for killing the old man will probably say they were "just jumping him". These kids have no idea that a kick in the head can be as lethal as anything else. I am not justifying the kid who fired into the crowd, but DC needs to take on "jumping" which it sounds like was at the beginning of the incident. It's really, really violent. I know a wonderful, hardworking, very innocent (ie not seeking trouble) young lady in CH who was jumped because she was Latina, walking by a group of youth who that seems to have offended (non Latinas). She ended up hospitalized for a long time, punches to the face, kicks in the ribs and all that. This was many years ago, but vicious youth on youth (and others apparently) "beat downs" happen all the time in DC. People need to open their eyes.

Anonymous wrote:The girls who are under arrest for killing the old man will probably say they were "just jumping him". These kids have no idea that a kick in the head can be as lethal as anything else. I am not justifying the kid who fired into the crowd, but DC needs to take on "jumping" which it sounds like was at the beginning of the incident. It's really, really violent. I know a wonderful, hardworking, very innocent (ie not seeking trouble) young lady in CH who was jumped because she was Latina, walking by a group of youth who that seems to have offended (non Latinas). She ended up hospitalized for a long time, punches to the face, kicks in the ribs and all that. This was many years ago, but vicious youth on youth (and others apparently) "beat downs" happen all the time in DC. People need to open their eyes.

Anonymous wrote:We aren't even safe at the metro stations.

Anonymous wrote:I truly believe that parents need to start getting arrested for the crimes of their children.

Anonymous wrote:The girls who are under arrest for killing the old man will probably say they were "just jumping him". These kids have no idea that a kick in the head can be as lethal as anything else. I am not justifying the kid who fired into the crowd, but DC needs to take on "jumping" which it sounds like was at the beginning of the incident. It's really, really violent. I know a wonderful, hardworking, very innocent (ie not seeking trouble) young lady in CH who was jumped because she was Latina, walking by a group of youth who that seems to have offended (non Latinas). She ended up hospitalized for a long time, punches to the face, kicks in the ribs and all that. This was many years ago, but vicious youth on youth (and others apparently) "beat downs" happen all the time in DC. People need to open their eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly believe that parents need to start getting arrested for the crimes of their children.

Why do you think this would help? Most of these wayward kids are born to parents who didn’t want them and aren’t equipped to parent effectively. What we should do is focus on making birth control easily and freely available to low-income women.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid saw it happen. Teens jumping another teen. A friend tried to stop them from beating up the kid and when they wouldn’t, he pulled out a gun.

Horrific scene, see by kids from Latin(s), WLA, Perry, Truth, Brookland Middle.

So the killer was trying to help?

I wasn’t there but it seems reasonable to me that he may not have intended to shoot. He’s a kid with a gun. It’s predictable that something might go wrong there. If that’s what happened, I do feel bad for the shooter. Some of these kids get guns from the adults in their lives because they think they need them to protect themselves. It’s all so screwed up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid saw it happen. Teens jumping another teen. A friend tried to stop them from beating up the kid and when they wouldn’t, he pulled out a gun.

Horrific scene, see by kids from Latin(s), WLA, Perry, Truth, Brookland Middle.

So the killer was trying to help?

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Anonymous wrote:I was horribly scared of being jumped when I went to parochial school as a kid in DC. It was a very popular pastime, to talk about jumping classmates. I'm not sure anyone at my school ever actually jumped anyone - but as an elementary student (nerdy girl) hearing constant chatter about "who was gonna jump who after school" and "you gonna get jumped" was devastating. I cried every day and was so happy when we moved.
My school was a lot safer than my neighborhood public option (the nuns ran a tight ship), but it was rough around the edges and I think the kids were parroting what they heard in the neighborhood. I was from a different background from the majority of the kids and found it absolutely bewildering (and terrifying). I have no idea to this day why they found it so entertaining.
I genuinely can't stand the DC school culture when it veers into cising, joning and jumping--it's violent and as we can see here, doesn't end well. Schools, families and neighborhoods need to start addressing any root culture that glorifies violence talk and behavior.

My kid’s DCPS MS takes it very seriously. It results in a LOT of kids getting suspended or sent back to their IB school

Anonymous wrote:I was horribly scared of being jumped when I went to parochial school as a kid in DC. It was a very popular pastime, to talk about jumping classmates. I'm not sure anyone at my school ever actually jumped anyone - but as an elementary student (nerdy girl) hearing constant chatter about "who was gonna jump who after school" and "you gonna get jumped" was devastating. I cried every day and was so happy when we moved.
My school was a lot safer than my neighborhood public option (the nuns ran a tight ship), but it was rough around the edges and I think the kids were parroting what they heard in the neighborhood. I was from a different background from the majority of the kids and found it absolutely bewildering (and terrifying). I have no idea to this day why they found it so entertaining.
I genuinely can't stand the DC school culture when it veers into cising, joning and jumping--it's violent and as we can see here, doesn't end well. Schools, families and neighborhoods need to start addressing any root culture that glorifies violence talk and behavior.