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.
I wondered how many posts it would take…Ding-Ding-Ding! Winner, winner Chicken dinner.
Keep your head on a swivel and your hand on your piece. ALWAYS carry with one in the pipe, thugs today will kill you dead before you can rack a load. Do not be a victim.
Hahaha, good one. Consider it stolen! Hahaha.
I think low IQ spreads out from DC and most state houses too, not towards.
Don’t we compassionately shoot horses who break their legs and rabid dogs…just a thought.
Those days are long over. The military won’t accept plea bargain recruits anymore.
There’s always one in the crowd…hahaha.
Please, stop it with that, it’s not remotely funny.
English has always been a bastard tongue, borrowing from German, French, Latin, Celt, Briton, Saxon, Japanese, science fiction....you name it, we'll adopt it.
I was responding to post 13, which differs from the original story.
You should be able to tell whom one is responding to by now…
You used whom.
I must sit down and ponder this.
Hmmmmm... His karma done boomeranged back on him. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
https://grammarhow.com/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions-meaning/
You’re welcome…
P.S. It’s before any coffee…
“The military won’t accept plea bargain recruits anymore.”
I did not know that. I guess that is the one thing they are doing right these days.
Me too. This is a win-win. The World is a better place without him in it.
Thanks.
Hope the chicken was humanely raised.
Greg Gutfeld once wrote he wanted to know that the chickens he ate were listening to Enya’s music just before being taken out to be slaughtered.
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