Posted on 07/23/2021 12:55:40 AM PDT by blueplum
Two people have been shot when at least one gunman opened fire along a busy dining street in Washington DC, before running from the scene, jumping with another man into a waiting car and speeding off.
Police on Thursday night said they were searching for the gunman or gunmen, and published surveillance footage.
It showed a black man in a lime green or yellow hoodie and another man in all black running from the scene and jumping into a waiting black Honda Civic....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
At witness interviewed said that he thought the gunfire was between the sedan occupants and an apartment complex. Someone more familiar with the area might know about what apartments there are.
here’s the link to the Independent’s story - the witness interview is down the page:
The DC stands for Dodge City.
Diversion for a dine and dash?
This is up in the NW section of town...about a mile north of the White House. You’d typically deem the area as reasonably safe (fair number of trendy restaurants there).
Butt butt butt gun laws in d.c. are real strict.
#4. No. It’s DC’s version of “carry out” and it doesn’t refer to the food.
For the DC Marxists and Dems (but I repeat myself), “You’re anti-police Marxist efforts to defund the police are like your chickens coming home to roost”.
What is the “bird” dinner du jour in DC? “DUCK”!
Just curious why you use “butt” instead of but. Not looking for a debate.
It’s the headline at Fox. CNN headline? Covid denial.
Too bad Acosta didn’t become collateral damage.
14th Street N.W. was one of the riot corridors in 1968. At that time, it was a bustling commercial corridor and thus a target for looters. The riots turned white flight into a stampede as DC politics collapsed into the sewer that would lead ultimately to the Marion Barry era. The city ended up in de facto bankruptcy, marked eventually by the loss of self-government and a federal takeover via the Control Board led by Anthony Williams. Williams was the chief financial officer for the Control Board and began the process of cleaning the Augean Stables of DC government. He then succeeded Marion Barry and served two most excellent terms as mayor. More than any other single person, he laid the foundation for DC’s remarkable turnaround.
Anyhow, upper 14th Street is a major gentrification success story. But gentrification involves some familiar issues. If you go to Google Maps and slip into the street view feature, you will see along one side of 14th a long row of thriving small businesses and many restaurants. Across the street, on the side where the shooting occurred, you will see a public housing project. All public housing complexes are not the same and I do not know the character of this one, but there is certain baggage that tends to come with them.
I live on Capitol Hill, a now legendary gentrification success story. Gentrification is an n-dimensional story, but the evolution of low income housing is one of the important ones. On the Hill, one of the problems was an overconcentration of LBJ era low income housing projects. These had reached critical mass, at which point their collective presence begins to poison an entire area. One of the key factors in the Hill’s rebound is that these began to age out. Several shut down entirely and the land was redeveloped. Others were replaced by mixed income redevelopments designed to be compatible with the surrounding (mostly Victorian) residential architecture. Folks with a long memory may recall the infamous Edith Wilson dwellings, an LBJ era Great Society hellhole that eventually was closed and sat vacant for so long that it become a recurring photo stop for democrat presidential campaigns. If you were to drive through that area today, you would probably not even notice any difference from the surrounding Victorian townhouse blocks. An attentive viewer with an eye for construction details might notice that all the structures look much newer than the otherwise very similar surrounding blocks. That’s a success story. Democrat presidential candidates don’t campaign there anymore.
Anyhow, with regard to the recent shooting, a crowd of mostly liberal yuppies got an education about the correlates of LBJ style social engineering. At least a few of them may connect the dots and take a lesson about institutionalizing poverty and dependency in big public housing units.
Some of the liberal yuppies might even come around to the view that DC police should be allowed to give chase in such situations. The really daring might even realize that proactive, broken windows policing might have meant foot patrols or bike cops were in such an area during evening dining areas, with a police cruiser or two standing by. But our current worm of a mayor is among the many democrat mayors who has pulled back the police in the wake of the George Floyd incident. We are reaping the consequences. There is nothing wrong with that stretch of 14th street that an effective police presence wouldn’t solve. But when government goes into criminal protection mode, the gunmen change their calculations.
I remember being driven through the aftermath of the 68 riots in DC. We were visiting friends in Baltimore and had postponed the visit due to the riots. I was 11 at the time and it was my first visit to a war zone.
I can’t believe that white people actually live in major US cities. Darwin awards to all that do.
Pre 1980’s 14th street was the hooker/adult store area....
Servants of Deep State, most of them.
And likely think they’re immune from the consequences of what Deep State is doing.
They’re in for a rude awakening.
I am talking physical safety. No whites should attempt to live inside a major US city. It’s stupid and not safe to do so. It’s been this way FOR A LONG TIME.
I was talking about physical safety, too.
Perps are not gonna care if the vic works for Fedzilla.
Embrace the suck, Deep Staters.
The mayor sure has been quiet lately
Miami Beach’s South Beach is at that point now. The outdoor dining venues are risky places to be sometimes.
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