"For example, she’d be the first to point out that victims of violence in D.C. are disproportionately people of color." well, looks like she got her chance to even the odds out a little bit then dint she...
Posted on 03/26/2017 6:08:42 AM PDT by brucedickinson
So sad.
“Corrina was a feminist she wanted to end to violence against women.”
Idunno, but I’ll wager she was anti-2A and pro-BLM, too. Progressives so misunderstand actual human nature and evil.
Like most lefties, she’s watched far too many films and has transformed screen cliches into absolute life truths.
One of those ‘truths’ is: all wife-beaters are whiskey-soaked white men who throw random slaps and punches every time their football team gives up a touchdown.
Is there a Planned Parenthood in this neighborhood?
Or an orange. They’re plywood, and the seat and handlebars are wooden. I’m guessing that it’s “art. “
Well, yes, that as well.
So: basically anything could have happened. She lived a block off H Street, and the H Street corridor is an amazing revitalization story. For local Freepers who are thinking bad things about H street, but who haven't been there for years ... go on down and take a look. You will not believe what you will see. A lot of it is completely rebuilt, and most of what has not been rebuilt has been rehabbed. This has happened in just the last few years. There are still a few rundown sections (e.g., three or four adjacent buildings on a block) which I presume are awaiting demolition; they have the look of a project in waiting that needs a few more i's dotted and t's crossed before the wrecking ball takes over.
The surrounding area is well past the midway point of gentrification. Capitol Hill is largely gentrified down to H. From H up to Florida Avenue/Gallaudet University is only three or four blocks, and it is transforming rapidly. The eastern end of H Street has become a night spot with restaurants, bars, clubs and a live theater. I'm too old to be much interested in yuppie hotspots, but H Street is hot. This of course attracts some predators as well.
This was an ugly crime, but it is the kind of thing that happens in a fast changing neighborhood. The gentrification is relentless. Capitol Hill is now just about done, but pushing to the north and east, neighborhoods like Rosedale, Langston Terrace, Carver Langston, Trinidad, and even Ivy City are changing. Basically, Capitol Hill is expanding east to the Anacostia River and north to the New York Avenue/railroad corridor.
As usual with threads on DC neighborhoods and DC crime, there are a lot of people with outdated information. I have started doing some exploring in far northeast and close-in PG country just over the DC line. There is now an organic supermarket in IVY CITY. Sorry to shout, but IVY CITY???!!! Union Market in the Eckington farmers' market is a hot spot; if someone were doing a DC version of Seinfeld, it would be a likely set location. Check it out some pleasant Saturday; go for brunch. I was exploring up the rail corridor running from the rail yards to Hyattsville. (This is one of the "lost quarters" on most people's mental maps of DC, and I was curious.) On Adams Street, in Brentwood, just up the hill from the rail yards, I encountered a twenty-something white girl walking her dog before going to work. A young white guy came by on his bike. A couple more young white people were moving from their houses to their cars. I know I'm overusing the "W-word," but this was BRENTWOOD, a no-go area for most of the time I've been in DC. It's changing. And there's nothing wrong with Langdon and Woodridge or Michigan Park, already mixed neighborhoods, that a little time won't fix. There are brand new, $800,000 townhomes on the hilltop behind Fort Lincoln New Town off Bladensburg Road. Brookland is expanding. Bloomingdale, the U-Street corridor, and Columbia Heights are all night and day from what they were ten years ago, and the whole area behind Union Station has been rebuilt.
I know those names will not mean much to out-of-towners; suffice it to say that most of the areas I've mentioned are in NE DC, on the west side (i.e., the DC side, not the Anacostia side) of the river. But I mention them because we have a lot of DC area freepers who know these areas by reputation, and who tend to show up on local interest threads. Frankly, guys, you need to come on down and look around. It ain't the same DC you knew and loathed.
Are there places you shouldn't be walking around at 3:00 a.m.? Sure. Situational awareness is important, and things change rapidly from block to block. But the movement is all in the right direction.
Oh, and be sure to drive through Buzzard Point sooner rather than later. A lot of demolition has already been done for the new DC United stadium, but you can still see plenty of the industrial grunge. In five years, that too will be transformed.
Corrina, clearly, had taken way too many stupid pills. In fact, it appears she died of an overdose of stupid. Culling the gene pool.
Regarding big dogs and big guns, I practice what I preach. If I moved my whole household and all my toys to CA tomorrow, I’d be an instant felon. No joke.
We still suffer in 2017 from the actions of Lincoln and Henry the VIII.
Hitler has nothing on those two.
Yo, Jack! Haven’t you heard? We’re not under the Law anymore! We can make up new rules as we go along! Christ has set us free so we can do as we want! Ain’t it great?
Well said.
In the cynical world, we would call this terminal engagement. I think I saw one of her bicycles on Ridge Ave, which I call the ass crack of Philadelphia.
LOL!
Yeah, Christianity promotes lawlessness and Christians don’t even understand that.
The story doesn't mention time of death, and there are nearly two days unaccounted for. She could have been jumped on the way to or from her car, threatened with a weapon, and told to keep quiet and she wouldn't get hurt. She wouldn't be the first to make the wrong choice in that situation. Or the perp could have been a neighbor and acquaintance; the area is changing but it's not 100 percent yet. Monday night isn't a party night, but she might have had dinner down on H Street and then walked home alone after dark. H Street has become a hot scene, and there is a problem with street crime as a result. I had a friend, a much younger acquaintance, who was mugged a couple of years ago on his way back from H Street to his apartment on Capitol Hill. As he was uninjured, I was thoroughly unsympathetic; it was 3:00 a.m., he was drunk, and I told him he was asking for it.
That bike isn’t going anywhere, in any case, unless she fixes the chain.
“As usual with threads on DC neighborhoods and DC crime, there are a lot of people with outdated information. “
I go back to the 1968 riots when the P.G. County (MD) police put shooters on the roofs of buildings and announced that any rioters who crossed the DC/MD line would be shot. It worked, too. I remember “the U-Street corridor,” that section of DC that was burned out and left untouched for a decade.
It’s like Mordor. The Evil lurks.
Sure does.
Good quote.
I had that conversation yesterday at a birthday party. I was basically called a liar by someone for telling my story of preventing three muggings by simple display of a weapon on my hip. What the idiot didn't realize was that I had the lady who was with me on two of those occasions talking to some other people in the same room.
"For example, she’d be the first to point out that victims of violence in D.C. are disproportionately people of color." well, looks like she got her chance to even the odds out a little bit then dint she...
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