Posted on 07/10/2015 5:54:57 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
On Wednesday afternoon, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced with fanfare the closing of a June 23 homicide case in which the victim was found dead in a burning trash bin.
One unsolved murder down, countless more to go.
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Most pulling the triggers or wielding the knives are believed to be African American males, too.
Unless sensational, like a quadruple murder in an upscale Northwest neighborhood, a prominent reporter’s slaying or a brutal stabbing on a Metro train with eyewitnesses, most murders don’t hit the headlines. Especially those that occur in neighborhoods where everybody knows everybody and the killers aren’t strangers.
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Thus conspiracies of deadly silence, even as bodies continue to fall and killers get away.
Comes now the chant: “Black lives matter.”
Perhaps so. But only when whites take black lives?
Is that the only time to come forward?
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I’ve always said D.C. should be relocated in south-central IL, west-central TN, north-central MO, or east-central AR.
Northern Alaska is my choice.
Geo center of the country!
If anything, the police presence should be reduced. It’s obvious that most of the denizens of the District of Corruption want nothing to do with the criminal justice system. Fair enough. Let them deal with it themselves.
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