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  • D.C. Activist Who Pushed for City's Soft-on-Crime Bill Shot and Killed

    11/21/2022 5:00:34 PM PST · by george76 · 98 replies
    Townhall ^ | November 21, 2022 | Julio Rosas
    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...