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The wrong way to talk about killings in D.C.
Washington Post ^ | June 5, 2015 | Colbert I. King

Posted on 06/05/2015 8:09:47 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

This week, an angry D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier had this to say at the Southeast Washington bus stop where 27-year-old reporter Charnice Milton was shot and killed: “Unfortunately . . . wrong place, wrong time.”

I say to Lanier, with all due respect: No, no, a thousand times, no.

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Milton’s death has been received, understandably, with shock and sorrow. It should also have been received with outrage. That the bullet that struck her came not out of a cop’s gun but from a dirt biker’s weapon doesn’t — or shouldn’t — make her killing any less enraging.

You can count on hearing a lot of rhetoric if an unarmed African American is killed by a police officer, especially if the cop is white.

However, should both the victim and the killer be black, and neither of them a police officer, then the expression most likely to be heard among the onlookers at the crime scene is a sigh and the plaintive “These senseless killings have got to stop.”

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1 posted on 06/05/2015 8:09:47 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Revrunt Al Sharpton is about to CHANGE all that with a new program to get the ghetto to Patrol The Ghetto...at night

perhaps with breaks for Mighnight Basketball??


2 posted on 06/05/2015 8:13:48 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Otherwise known as Obama’s civilian force with the power of the military. Now you know what a billion bullets were for.

Any non down wit’ da struggle black pr non black is now a target in da’ hood and surrounding areas to be purged fo’ da Social Justice.


3 posted on 06/05/2015 8:29:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: MeshugeMikey

Mr King has a good reply to that one:

“You wouldn’t know that slaughter on the streets is taking place if you listen to our “leaders” pontificating weekly from the podium or in the pulpit.”


4 posted on 06/05/2015 8:30:23 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Second Amendment First
but from a dirt biker’s weapon

Anyone know the story on this? Mad Max escapee? Thunderdome?

5 posted on 06/05/2015 8:34:09 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Second Amendment First

DILLIGAF
Their town. Their leaders. Their problem.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 8:49:36 PM PDT by Tupelo (I fell more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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To: BwanaNdege
Are there a lot of places to ride a dirt bike in DC?


7 posted on 06/05/2015 9:20:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

With all the dirt on the political class, maybe so.


8 posted on 06/05/2015 9:25:57 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Norm Lenhart

rite awn rite awn rite AWN

Obies gonna SAVE the Ghetto!!


9 posted on 06/05/2015 9:41:42 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: proxy_user

Revrunt Sharpton is such a womderful example and he doesnt even have a pulpit


10 posted on 06/05/2015 9:54:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: BwanaNdege

In DC and Baltimore (and probably many other cities), gangbangers have discovered that a dirt bike is more maneuverable in dense urban housing than cars, and much faster than cops on foot or patrol cars. Essentially, they can motor right by the cop cars and not get caught.

The video on the news showed that one yute even had a small ATV.


11 posted on 06/05/2015 11:10:56 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Thanks for the “cultural update”. Yes, I seen to remember several “action movies” set in South America where the assassins used dirt bikes.

I had not seen the news videos.


12 posted on 06/06/2015 2:35:41 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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