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.
Worse to have a legal gun in DC than an illegal one?
After five years in prison for robbery he probably couldn’t legally possess a gun.
A photo of Kevin:
Death by low IQ. Coming rapidly to DC.
Karma would have made him a paraplegic from the shooting and he could watch the fruits of his labors from a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Karma Shootya
Blown Away.
Way past time for these crimes to start touching those who enable it.
I hope every liberal in America fighting for criminals gets attacked, robed, raped and or killed.
It’s what they wish to happen to others, so it’s only fair that it happens to them.
He reaped the expected results from his stand.
I suppose better him than some innocent bystander.
We have a family member who served three tours of duty in Afghanistan as an Intelligence Specialist with the Marine Corps who after leaving the service has dedicated his life to assisting in resettling the U.S. with migrants from other countries.
His father is American. The mother is Cuban.
He’s an out and out Marxist and believes in open borders. I can’t understand what happens to these kids in the Marine Corps. I just can’t.
Got into a dispute with him back in 2014 during a dinner we hosted for him in our home. Stupid of me. He turned all DI on me and threatened to throw me out of my own house. In front of family members. I was 66 years old at the time.
Our state has a law against assaulting senior citizens it is a 2d degree felony punishable by three years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
He died doing what he loved . . .
In DC? That’s like guessing someone’s religion in Salt Lake City or Tel Aviv.
There is divine justice.
In post#13, which is separate from this shooting.
I’m about moved to a exurban zip code that’s 93-94% white, <2% black, <3% Hispanic.
But when I’m in town, where the numbers can be much different, I’m very aware of my surroundings. I am here, too, but it’s a much more relaxed awareness.
I wonder if he accepted signing up for the military as a plea bargain for some other offense.
“ worst of what we have to offer — sent off to the military,”
My thinking also.
“We need to reduce the punishment for Felon in possession of a Firearm, so that I may break that law with impunity”?
As I read the article his killer has not been identified and is unlikely to ever be caught.
Eventually this will happen to a famous democrat.
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