Posted on 11/21/2022 5:00:34 PM PST by george76
Kelvin Blowe was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on the same day the city council voted unanimously to pass a bill he advocated for that reduces penalties for serious offenses such as robbery, burglary, carjackings, and carrying a firearm without a license.
The Washington Post reports Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to right inequities he believed he encountered."
After getting out, he joined DC Justice Lab, one of the groups that pushed to overhaul the city's criminal code. He testified in support of the proposed bill in December.
The Marine Corps veteran, who was diagnosed with PTSD, was working as a security guard and was taking coworkers home last week when he was shot and killed when a gunman "emerged from a stolen car after a crash with Blowe. Authorities said they believe Blowe also possessed a weapon, as they recovered a gun next to his body… Blowe's family said they did not know he had a weapon."
After the crash, Blowe got out, approached the car, and was shot. It is not known if Blowe pointed his firearm at the suspects, who fled the scene and have yet to be found.
"It is very difficult to accept that someone who survived the worst of what we have to offer — sent off to the military, sent off to prison — couldn't survive living on the streets of D.C.," Patrice Sulton, a civil rights lawyer and executive director of the DC Justice Lab, told the Post. "He dedicated himself to preventing the exact kind of harm that befell him."
The bill passed earlier this week, reduces the mandatory minimum sentences, which are already lenient for gun offenders [and] felons in possession of illegal guns," D.C. Police Union Chief Shop Steward Adam Shaatal said in reaction to the news.
Republicans in the House and the Senate have voiced opposition to the bill that was approved this week. Rep. Jame Comer (R-KY), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, previously told Townhall they will work to prevent the bill from becoming law should Mayor Muriel Bowser sign it since they have jurisdiction over the city.
Yeah, whatcha gonna do?
Karma Sutra - when fate screws you in creative ways.
I can hardly hold back the tears! A great big dose of poetic justice!!!!
He wasn't drafted, dearie. But enquiring minds want to know - did his shooter get released with no bail?
He got Blowed away.
Just like his buddy Malcolm X.
He probably thought that the “soft on crime” approach would get him lots of love in the hood.
Turns out that the gang bangers don’t give a ****. Oh well.
Good riddance.
"The bill passed earlier this week, reduces the mandatory minimum sentences, which are already lenient for gun offenders [and] felons in possession of illegal guns," D.C. Police Union Chief Shop Steward Adam Shaatal said in reaction to the news.
Should I guess the shooter’s demographic?...
That Blowes.
Theu used to hang horse thieves in the Old West.
Carjacking is the modern equivalent of that crime.
There seems to be a decent-sized percentage of AA's that believe that theft is perfectly fine, and that there should be no punishment for doing so. Maybe Mr. Blowe can state his case at the Pearly Gates.
RE: Schadenfreude jamboree.
A word that applies to me often, of course.
I’m not soft on crime.
Still amazing that the English language had to borrow that wonderful word from elsewhere.
Did the killer have a criminal record for one of the crimes the activist wanted to excuse? That would make it even more ironic.
His Karma ran over his Dogma.
Nice.
The German language has a way of expressing an exacting summary judgment. It’s quite wonderful.
Isn’t irony ironic?
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