Posted on 07/18/2021 3:05:56 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided.
“We twins now,” the smiling 6-year-old told Andrea Courtney.
It was one of the last times the two talked.
Nyiah was fatally shot Friday night while walking to her nearby home with her mother, father and older sister in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington.
Police said the shots came from a gray, four-door sedan passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, striking Nyiah, her mother and four others, among the latest victims in a city struggling to curtail gun violence.
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Is she flashing a gang sign??? Or am I just an old fogey who doesn't understand this stuff.
This happened near the intersection of MLK and Malcom X. Nothing should be named for Malcom X.
>>Police said the shots came from a gray, four-door sedan passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, striking Nyiah, her mother and four others, among the latest victims in a city struggling to curtail gun violence.
Gun violence or BLACK violence against the BLACK community? If black lives matter as they claim why aren’t they focusing upon black on black violence? It’s senseless.
More on the dad, possibly
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3302723/dad-nyiah-courtney-shot-dead-washington-led-away-cops/
She was a beautiful little girl.
Heart breaking.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues
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Places to avoid........
“She also should not have been out at 11 at night, especially in this neighborhood.”
Bad as this is (and it is), what’s worse is that in ten years she very likely would have been doing this to someone else. Look at her neighborhood and who’s around her - what was her future going to be like?
the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues
They are BOTH avenues?
That article is so unclear. Was this something that happened in the past? Of did the father go to a demo after his kid was killed?
Yes.
I have gotten to the point that if the black communities don’t seem to care and they don’t clean up their own towns, I don’t care. Very sorry for that child as I would any child but not the parents or the neighborhood. It is what it is.
It’s not an intersection; it’s a bullseye.
Liquor store violence. That’s a refreshing change of pace.
Concerned residents have asked officials to crack down on nearby liquor stores which they claim are attracting violence to the area.
It’s too bad that our government determined liquor stores to be essential while they shut down all churches for many months of the pandemic.
I don’t know.
It’s all very confusing
It just guts me to see her angelic little face.
:(
Ugh.
There’s probably a gun store and SUV dealer nearby, too.
Nothing like a trifecta of evil objects.
Yeah, weird wasn’t it.
Freaking fake scamdemic.
”Monk” came on MeTV this evening. He was in a classroom full of coughing, sniffling, mouth-breathing kids. He slowly masked himself with his sweater. Then a kid next to him started picking his nose, and when he started putting his finger in his mouth, Monk lost it, and I had to laugh. p> I think about half of America has gone Adrian Monk, minus the brains, in this plandemic.
Good analogy.
Ironically, I have a few “contamination phobias” born of past experiences but I was walking around looking positively normal compared to the “OMG sterilize everything!!!” freaks.
Can’t count the times my hands started burning like hell because of all the “antibacterial goop” they were smearing on shopping cart handles.
No idea what it was but I was allergic to it.
And then were the “sprayers” who were literally dousing everything with aerosol sanitizers after every single person touched anything.
I’d rather face a “killer virus” than God knows what that stuff was.
I’d hike my t shirt up over my nose just to try and spare myself from it.
Whole world lost its mind.
My grocery store had gotten new refrigeration units about a year before Coroba virus panic hit. Door handles everywhere. The sprayers were constantly sanitizing them. For about two weeks. Then, I think people started to catch on that this just wasn’t a terribly virulent bug, novel or not. I was thinking “Oh, great. Now they’re creating superbugs at the grocery store.”
There’s a zillion articles about how the over sanitization craze is slowly creating superbugs and destroying our natural immunity to the world.
When I was kid, I spent all my time around dogs and farm animals, running barefoot through filthy places, sharing sandwiches with my dogs and so forth.
Got a crazy immune system and the last time I had a “flu” was 15 years ago when I got a “flu shot”.
Even if I start to catch a “cold” that is slamming everybody else here, it lasts me maybe one day and that’s a sniffle or two and a couple sneezes.
Every time I see somebody in a store bathroom, frantically scrubbing their paws like they’re about to perform bare handed brain surgery, I think “Welp. There goes your lovely layer of protective bacteria”.
Let your kids go play in the dirt, like I did.
Also, the irony is, unless you marinate surfaces for at least a minute in sanitizers, you have accomplished exactly nothing.
Even 90% alcohol takes at least 30 seconds to do diddly squat.
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