Actually, if you don't mind getting wet you can swim there across the Anacostia River from the Navy Yard. 🙂👍
Posted on 06/10/2024 7:37:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins claimed Sunday afternoon that one of his staffers was robbed at gunpoint in Washington, D.C.
Collins took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and claimed a staffer on his team and a friend were allegedly robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by three men in the southeast neighborhood of Navy Yard. While the staffer and other individuals were not identified by Collins, the Republican congressman claimed one attacker had taken a watch while another was punched by one of the victims.
“Our nation’s capital has become a warzone because of pro-criminal policies peddled by D.C.’s government. Thank the good Lord, after fending off the assailants, both young men are safe,” Collins wrote.
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officials confirmed the attack to The Daily Caller, stating that around 1:58 a.m. officials responded to a call for “the report of a robbery,” and that multiple suspects had been present, including one possessing a gun. Following the attack, the suspects fled by vehicle, police said, posting an image of the car and license plate to social media.
Data published by the MPD in January 2024 revealed Washington, D.C. experienced a 39% increase in violent crime in 2023. While the District contains the most police officers per capita in the country, overall crime had increased by 26% from 2022, with 34,414 instances of violent and property crime being reported to authorities, in addition to property crime rising by 24%.
A bill, Secure DC Omnibus, was introduced in January 2024 by D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto to increase gun crime penalties and add retail theft penalties, expand the definition of carjacking, allow for DNA sample collection from felony suspects and allow officers to designate high-crime areas drug-free zones.
Pinto stated at the time that the bill’s March 5, 2024 passing “sends the clear message that DC is united in its efforts to make meaningful and sustainable improvements to public safety for residents across the District.”
The Daily Caller reached out to Congressman Collins’s office for comment.
Before 1973, the District of Columbia was administered by the Federal Government. Mariel Bowser, and her predecessors have shown that granting D.C. home rule was a big mistake.
I personally like “Twix”
It is patently obvious that they cannot govern themselves in a civilized manner...................
Especially in the Navy Yard neighborhood (Anacostia.) That was ill-advised back when I lived in the D.C. metro area during my high school years.
Actually, if you don't mind getting wet you can swim there across the Anacostia River from the Navy Yard. 🙂👍
I never lived there, but I’ve visited my sister in Maryland many times and we’ve gone to DC plenty. I’ve always known which areas to avoid and Navy Yard & Anacostia top the list.
The cancer has spread to the Navy Yard.
Texas congressman says he was carjacked in Navy Yard by 3 armed suspects who ‘came out of nowhere'
Maybe they should have enough sense not to be out in a libtard controlled city.
I won’t even go to a blue state
Are you “left Twix” or a “right Twix”?
I guess some things never change.
Far right Twix.
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