Posted on 04/10/2018 3:33:37 PM PDT by markomalley
A nun who was fully dressed in her habit was carjacked at gunpoint in Northeast D.C., police say.
The nun was walking on Quincy Street in Brookland around 7 p.m. Monday to her parked car.
A man approached her, brandishing a gun and demanding her keys, police said.
She complied, and the man drove off in her car, police said.
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Having said that, this is actually pretty surprising to me. Brookland (the specific neighborhood) has actually been seriously cleaned up over the past several years. Most of the crap is confined to the other side of Monroe and is consistently being pushed farther toward Rhode Island.
Homo/Commie/Muzzie
She picked the wrong day to leave her Ruler or Yardstick at home.
I usually go into the monastery quickly and don’t linger on the street in that area.
Easy unarmed target.
Boy, nothing is sacred anymore. Jesus said it best “ men’s hearts wax cold at the end of the age”.
20 year old arrested shortly after:
...and likely automatic transmission car...
Ping!
I saw “Car Nunchucks” when I glanced at the headline...
Glad they caught the carjacker.
The nun is OK.
Agreed. I would regard that part of Brookland as safe. But as in any big city, the trash can wander in.
Civilized Brookland is pushing south. Capitol Hill is pushing north. Trinidad and Ivy City are flipping. Even Brentwood (Brentwood!!!!) is starting to flip, but the cluster of housing projects on Rhode Island will hold things back. The Rhode Island corridor as a whole is improving. The corridors along the rail lines are zoned light industrial, and that's a complication for the housing (though a lot of jobs). I do think we will see that whole problem area squeezed out in the years to come.
You know how you can tell the high-crime parts of DC? Go into a 7-11. If they hide the big gulp glasses and the coffee cups behind the register, you know it's a bad part of town.
Trinidad and Ivy City are flipping.
The other day I had to divert through Trinidad because of traffic backups on Bladensburg and was shocked (shocked I tell you) to see white families starting to show up in that area.
I presune you’ve already eaten at Union Market. If not, do so. And check out one of the new restaurants in Ivy City. That’s a work in process, but the whole place is being rebuilt, complete with an organic supermarket and condos in the old Hechts warehouse.
I’ve seen a lot of the work happen in Ivy City, but haven’t actually stopped there. Glad they did something with the old Hecht warehouse.
Union Market is a cool place, pity they had to ruin it with that Walmart sized Planned Butcherhood.
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