They looked at the film and it was too dark to use.
Black Lives Don’t Matter to Other Black Lives
“...in southeast Washington...”
Now there’s a clue.
A few years back, we had a thing across the street involving two deputy sheriffs and three drunk people in a car with a dog. I think they eventually decided that there wasn’t anything to be done, since the car was on the curb and the dog was obviously having fun.
” ... outdoor cookout that drew hundreds of people.”
Masks? I’m guessing those rules don’t apply.
In the video police were doing CPR on a woman in a dress. Might have been the officer, off duty or undercover? I wonder if the officer was the target as she was the only one killed.
My neighborhood was nice and quiet, too.
Then, a half block from my house, less than an hour before I got home from graveyard shift, three people were murdered in their house.
https://kdvr.com/news/deputy-was-shot-by-police-officer-during-arrest-of-triple-murder-suspect/
I started the process for a silencer purchase that week.
That was six years ago.
I keep hoping for that fault in the Azores to give way and send that 300 foot tsunami into DC.
It was Southeast DC. For anyone remotely familiar with DC no further information is needed.
Some years ago I had swat team members running through my back yard. They were working their way under cover to surround a house across the street. They ordered me to go inside. The woman psychologist across the street had threatened to kill herself and maybe her husband.
It all ended without any gun fire, but for a while there was excitement. Been pretty dull since then.
Anyone who played the video game Fallout 3 will never look at D.C. the same way again.
Imagine. Having a cookout. a block party. imagine that not a single person gets shot, stabbed or run over. Imagine nobody murdered. I guess that counts as white privilege.
Do you live in a dull neighborhood? Maybe you and your neighbors should start having cookouts at 12:20 AM.
We had 7 police on the ocean front for a parking dispute.
Gotta love how the Mayor dressed down everyone involved harshly except the actual shooters.
If it's Southeast DC no need for pics.
Newsham said a dispute broke out at the gathering and several people produced weapons and exchanged gunfire.
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You know how it goes. Someone asks for catsup on their hotdog instead of mustard, then all hell breaks loose.
“Mostly peaceful”
I had to look it up and discovered that it's in a little corner of DC that I've driven right past for years, most recently this past Friday, without ever having explored it. The story hits home because I recall thinking on Friday, "I wonder what's down there; maybe I should check it out." And the truth is, I wouldn't hesitate to drive through the area in daylight hours, though I wouldn't attend a block party at 1 a.m. with hundreds of people present, a DJ, plentious alcohol, and local teenagers ready for a gang fight.
I have occasion to drive by, just two blocks east of that address, because it's just off Minnesota Avenue, which is basically the river road running along the Anacostia. It runs through the flats just at the foot of the line of hills overlooking the river. On the east side of Minnesota Avenue, one climbs into the hills, where there is an interesting mix of neighborhoods, some of them ok and improving. The Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Fort Dupont Park is a major destination for anyone on Capitol Hill whose kids ice skate. On the west side of Minnesota Avenue is a long, narrow chute of residential streets, just a couple of blocks wide, completely sealed on the west by railroad tracks, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway and the river. It's therefore a limited access neighborhood, which can contribute to problems. You can't just say that it's in Anacostia so it's bad; you are in the land of microhabitats and a few blocks can make a world of difference. The streets are quiet and treelined. I can't tell the mix of regular homes and section 8 housing.
I was over there Friday because I was returning home from Cheverly and the freeway was jammed up, so I cut over to Minnesota to take the scenic route back to Capitol Hill. Minnesota Avenue is an interesting drive. The northern end of it still looks pretty rough but it is starting to be rebuilt. Continue a couple of miles south and it will take you into old town Anacostia, which is steadily improving. The Benning Road, East Capitol Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and 11th Street bridges will all take you across the river to Capitol Hill. I'm not afraid of the area, though I wouldn't want to wander around it on foot at night.
This incident sounds like a big block party, well attended, probably quite peaceable, that attracted some idiot teenagers with guns who got into a fight. It's amazing that so many people were wounded -- 20 the story says. I can only imagine that there was still a large crowd there, having a perfectly friendly time, and the teenagers started firing wildly into a crowd. The story doesn't say for sure, but I'm guessing that the critically wounded police officer was a neighborhood resident who was attending the party. She was off duty but may have tried to intervene.