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Vicious Beating Outside National Zoo in DC
4/25/2011 | Piperpilot

Posted on 04/25/2011 3:19:53 PM PDT by piperpilot

On my way home from work tonight, I witnessed a mob of approximately 50 teens beating another teen and kicking him in the head right in the middle of 6 lanes of rush hour traffic on Connecticut Avenue just outside the National Zoo. It was terrifying. They left the victim lying in the middle of the street. He eventually stood up and was clearly dazed as he tried to walk. Eventually someone called him to the sidewalk and he managed to stumble away. Police were called but the traffic was simply too heavy for them to be able to catch up to the attackers. I doubt that this attack will be reported in the news. It was Black Family Reunion Day at the National Zoo.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: assault; beating; dc; mob; urban; zoo
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To: piperpilot
Black Family Reunion Day at the National Zoo

Somebody is going to zapped commenting on that.

21 posted on 04/25/2011 3:36:33 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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To: piperpilot

Must have carried over into the street when they got kicked out of the zoo..... Ya don’t think they escaped from the zoo, do ya?


22 posted on 04/25/2011 3:36:41 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: allmost

DC is an utter joke, and a bad one at that. If it weren’t for the history and the monuments, it would be Detroit.


23 posted on 04/25/2011 3:36:41 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: piperpilot
Sounds like the wrong animals were in the zoo.

24 posted on 04/25/2011 3:37:05 PM PDT by SouthDixie (The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.)
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To: freekitty

Nah, Holder won’t do a thing. These were, after all, “his people.”


25 posted on 04/25/2011 3:38:40 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: jessduntno
A comment on the blog you referenced:

Gee, it's called "Easter Monday: An African American Family Tradition" until a violent crime takes place, and then it's suddenly the "annual day-after-Easter celebration."

26 posted on 04/25/2011 3:39:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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To: La Lydia
Life in Our Nation’s Capitol, or, as I think about, our National Zoo. He is lucky he didn’t get run down.

Despite the seeming upscale nature of how it presents itself, the National Zoo area (between Woodley Park and Cleveland Park) is not really a safe place. I've had a number of friends mugged in the area over the years (including one who was severely beaten by a couple thugs with baseball bats while walking home along Macomb St. after an evening at the old 4Ps) and always advise people to not venture from the immediate area of the two Metro stations ... and NEVER to attempt to walk between them. Esp at night.
27 posted on 04/25/2011 3:42:24 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: piperpilot

It’s Mogadishu with food.


28 posted on 04/25/2011 3:43:39 PM PDT by Moonman62 (If gullible, uneducated and uncivilized people didn't exist, politicians would create them.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Funny you say that about Amish.

I was there at the Zoo today and witnessed the inside action at the Small Mammal House.

There WAS a large group of Amish, or Mennonites, touring the Zoo today.

Needless to say, they were not involved.


29 posted on 04/25/2011 3:44:09 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: piperpilot
It will probably show up on youtube in the near future.
30 posted on 04/25/2011 3:44:30 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: I Shall Endure

Does that mean mommy and the 5 daddys have a picnic??


31 posted on 04/25/2011 3:45:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jessduntno

The comments are telling.

When my children were small, we lived just down the road from the National Zoo and it was a lovely residential neighborhood. We probably went to the zoo once a week. Doesn’t sound too inviting these days.


32 posted on 04/25/2011 3:45:59 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: piperpilot

Eff the District. You can’t carry a cop, so .....


33 posted on 04/25/2011 3:47:18 PM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: I Shall Endure

Are you kidding? Black family reunion at a zoo!


34 posted on 04/25/2011 3:48:19 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: piperpilot

Washington, D.C. is a zoo, not just the national zoo.

I lived there for 5 years and got out. I suggest you consider the same.


35 posted on 04/25/2011 3:50:56 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: popdonnelly
DC is an utter joke, and a bad one at that. If it weren’t for the history and the monuments, it would be Detroit.

Yup. I moved in right before Marion Barry's "B*tch set me up" moment. It took the imposition of a draconian Financial Control Board and then a couple pretty good Mayors (Anthony Williams and Adrian Fenty) - by DC standards anyways - to get the city pointed in the right direction.

Gray is nothing more than a corruptocrat out of the Barry mode. Just without the extreme personal "tastes" (for things like crack and ho's). Which means that he'll keep getting elected until the city is run into the ground again. And beyond.
36 posted on 04/25/2011 3:51:08 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Tell me about it. I have a friend who lives in Mount Pleasant on one of those streets running down toward the zoo. Not. Safe. At night.


37 posted on 04/25/2011 4:05:37 PM PDT by La Lydia ("California: When the parasites outnumber the hosts, it's all over.")
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To: piperpilot

Unfortunately, with a mob of 50 youts, you probably would have been outgunned, stuck in a non-bulletproof car and unable to “blend in with the local populace”. Not a good situation.


38 posted on 04/25/2011 4:24:36 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
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To: piperpilot
It was Black Family Reunion Day at the National Zoo.

He won't forget to bring the potato salad next year.

39 posted on 04/25/2011 4:27:24 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

I bet their fathers will give them Hell when they get home


40 posted on 04/25/2011 4:30:48 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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