I think it's this guy and those like him.
Posted on 09/02/2024 11:46:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten
WASHINGTON (7News) — An armed man who was shot and killed by D.C. police officers Sunday morning was identified Monday as a violence interrupter. ….. 7News I-Team Reporter Scott Taylor has learned Robinson was a violence interrupter with the D.C. Attorney General's Office and Cure The Street program. …… Robinson, who was the driver of the vehicle, was still inside the car, Smith said, but was unresponsive. She said Robinson allegedly had a gun in his lap. Shortly after officers called for backup, Robinson reportedly started to wake up. That's when officers drew their guns and commanded Robinson to drop his weapon. But Smith said, Robinson instead allegedly grabbed the officer's service weapon. That's when two officers fired their guns, striking him.
Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Fired as a violence interrupter and hired as a bullet interceptor.
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What is a violence interrupter?
Sounds like quasi-police shot by police.
SE DC is pretty much all black and a bad area. Lol, another woman police chief.
Cure the Streets is based on the successful CURE Violence model, which has seen a 20-60 percent reductions in shootings and killings more than 100 cities nationwide and globally. This model uses a public-health approach and treats violence as a disease through three main actions:
Interrupt: Interrupt potentially violent conflicts by preventing retaliation and mediating simmering disputes;
Treat: Identify and treat individuals at the highest risk for conflict by providing support services and changing behavior; and
Change: Engage communities in changing norms around violence (for instance, organize community responses to every shooting to counter normalization).
This work is carried out through the use of violence interrupters, credible residents with deep ties to the target neighborhoods. Our Cure the Streets interrupters have undergone 40 hours of rigorous training and are working in two targeted sites in Wards 8 and 5 selected for their chronic and sustained rates of shootings and homicides.
Since Cure the Streets launched, these interrupters have de-escalated several disputes and averted potentially fatal incidents. One such de-escalation took place shortly after a non-fatal shooting, where interrupters responded to the scene, spoke to the people involved, and negotiated a truce that held until a mediation was held that weekend. The mediation resolved the conflict between the warring parties. In another incident, an individual called a violence interrupter because he had a credible fear of being killed. The violence interrupters took that person out of the community for two days while they talked with the potential culprit and cleared up the misunderstanding that was fueling the conflict.
These interventions were possible because those residents knew and trusted the Cure the Streets interrupters. As these workers continue to develop key relationship with target neighborhood residents, their effectiveness will grow. So far, the interrupters have:
Made 300 contacts with community members in target neighborhoods;
Identified 16 high-risk individuals, with nine actively engaged in case management by workers;
Conducted 6 shooting responses in Ward 8 and 1 shooting response in Ward 5; and
Facilitated 10 mediations (six in Ward 8 and four in Ward 5) to defuse potentially violent situations.
Although Cure the Streets is just getting started, it’s already making a positive difference in these communities. OAG works to protect District residents and we must continue investing in these data-driven, proven solutions that can stop violence before it happens and save lives.
https://oag.dc.gov/blog/cure-streets-oags-violence-interruption-program
Whatever a violence interrupter is, they are probably supposed to be armed and it seems like a major screw up for the police to shoot and kill one.
Sounds like he was sleeping in his car in a rough neighborhood and woke up to people yelling and pointing guns at him close enough that he could grab one of the guns.
Stupid and careless of the police.
We seen this before citizen sleeping in vehicle while armed suddenly waken by police.
Police shoot citizen saying he was reaching for gun.
Most everyone that has been in the military knows how to wake people up that may be armed or dangerous.
This cop was stupid or wanted a kill.
“These interventions were possible because those residents knew and trusted the Cure the Streets interrupters. “
An earlier poster suggested the one in the story was a criminal himself. This also makes me think.
Sounds like he was a zoo keeper.
The mediation resolved the conflict between the warring parties
Methods to address Tribal disputes. Some are not ableto adhere to Western Civilization authorities because they’ve been taught not to trust them separate justice system
If only a coitus interrupter had prevented some of these bozos from being conceived.
For sure, he was a fool.
Seems fine to me... One more idiot gone.
Is this part of the idiot democrats’ “Re-imagined” method of policing?
But Smith said, Robinson instead allegedly grabbed the officer’s service weapon.
Cure the Streets is based on the successful CURE Violence model,
which has seen a 20-60 percent reductions in shootings and killings
in more than 100 cities nationwide and globally.
Talk about ‘brainwashing’.
Wake up, Pollyanna.
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