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D.C. Activist Who Pushed for City's Soft-on-Crime Bill Shot and Killed
Townhall ^ | November 21, 2022 | Julio Rosas

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Kentucky; US: Maryland; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
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To: george76

The trauma of having to blowe him away in order to escape is more than enough punishment for the car thief.

Do I really need to put a sarc on it.


61 posted on 11/21/2022 6:38:31 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“As you sew”

He was in a sewing circle?


62 posted on 11/21/2022 6:43:28 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: VTenigma
"His Karma ran over his Dogma."

Karma-Gia?

63 posted on 11/21/2022 6:43:52 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: george76
"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."

It sounds like he was PROMOTING the exact kind of harm that befell him, not preventing it.

64 posted on 11/21/2022 6:49:11 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: george76

Did they Blowe Kelvin away?


65 posted on 11/21/2022 6:58:36 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: george76

Did they Blowe Kelvin away?


66 posted on 11/21/2022 6:58:36 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: george76

“A passion to fight inequities’ after a prison sentence for robbery. Yeah I want him on my team.


67 posted on 11/21/2022 7:07:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: Larry Lucido
He sewed wrong. That is why he is ripping. :)

(old quilting joke)

68 posted on 11/21/2022 7:11:57 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

:-)


69 posted on 11/21/2022 7:16:04 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Carriage Hill

Feel-good story of the week.


70 posted on 11/21/2022 7:26:19 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: george76

lets all hope it was a learning experience...


71 posted on 11/21/2022 8:42:54 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: george76

TO BAD, SO SAD!

What a dumbass.


72 posted on 11/21/2022 10:21:21 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: EEGator

It’s DC, you think it was the Amish.

DAMN THOSE BLACK AMISH AND THEIR VIOLENCE!


73 posted on 11/21/2022 10:25:08 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: george76

He did a piss poor job of preventing violence. No big loss.


74 posted on 11/21/2022 10:31:32 PM PST by sport
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To: rfp1234

We are a kinder, gentler generation. We make politicians out of criminals. We send them to Congress.


75 posted on 11/21/2022 10:35:38 PM PST by sport
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To: george76

Democrat hellhole cities love these laws - it makes their crime statistics look better.

If an honest city reports 300 robberies based on more than a
$100 being taken in each case - - and a democrat hellhole reports 3 robberies (based on only counting robberies of more than a $1,000) Well, you get the picture. The hellhole looks like it has less crime.


76 posted on 11/21/2022 10:54:46 PM PST by GOPJ (Lists of fake hate crimes by date: https://fakehatecrimes.org/)
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To: george76

Well there’s irony for you.


77 posted on 11/22/2022 1:11:36 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: lightman

Karma bites him in the azz. I like a happy ending.


78 posted on 11/22/2022 4:36:12 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: LastDayz

>Karma and all that.<

He will have become 295 Kelvin.

EC


79 posted on 11/22/2022 4:44:20 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: frank ballenger

Well, there is an English language equivalent but Schadenfreude is easier than “hoisted on his own petard.


80 posted on 11/22/2022 4:45:56 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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