MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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[CRIME News] Residents Uneasy After Outbreak of Violence in D.C.'S Brightwood
By artappraiser on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:12pm |NBC News4’s Derrick Ward has reaction from neighbors and community leaders, 2 hours ago
Previous CRIME News thread HERE, covering 8/21 thru 9/10
URL:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/residents-uneasy-after-outbreak-of-violence-in-brightwood-neighborhood/2799177/
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by artappraiser on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:33pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:24am
Moms not just sitting on street corners - doing some ass kicking
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 3:52am
Black Chicago fireman shot in the face:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:50am
the shooting of the Black firefighter was part of a mass shooting:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:19pm
guy angry about the rise in violent crime in Rochester and sees Biden as not helping:
recent reports
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 2:03am
^ who would handle this sort of thing if police were abolished? just curious. let dead bodies lie and let people who do this kind of thing get away with it?
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 2:13am
Below a discussion pondering the promise of THE OPPOSITE OF GENTRIFICATION! PREFERRING #GHETTO? If only there was high enough crime, we could cash in on real estate. What a way to think! Violence as opportunity!
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 2:34am
South's gonna do it again.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 4:01am
Found retweeted by urban-planning expert Richard Florida.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 11:52am
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:51pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:15pm
It is true, however, if you defund or abolish police, there would be nobody to enforce stronger gun laws, much less get rid of the ever-growing multitude of firearms already in the U.S.
Where the libertarian right and left meet:
For police and other jackboots to take away a gun from a minority person, that would be enforcing white supremacy culture? Best to let the minority parents decide whether their children should have a gun?
(The latter is the reason the Boogaloo Bois have both right and left members...)
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:03pm
sounds awful libertarian to me; it's those jackbooted Fed thugs again:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:49pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 1:37am
wot, if you're near the U.S. Capitol and the DNC, you can't carry your bayonet and machete in your beatup pickup with antlers on the grille and nazi symbols and other odd things inside?
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 1:50am
a different kind of crazy, and I would argue much more lethal:
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 2:32am
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 2:29am
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:25pm
guns are fun, guns are a joke, everyone likes to play with them:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:39pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:51pm
FBI investigating a black man for possibly committing a hate crime:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:54pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 1:08pm
Believe it or not, a story was once conventional wisdom that black parents gave black teens a "talk" about how to act on the streets to stay safe! Really! I read and heard about this many times! I know, unbelievable now, but it was once true!
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 1:13pm
Kids! They never listen! and they do the darndest things!
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 6:46pm
There are some replies to Justin Fenton's tweet making fun of lefty solutions:
I don't know about Baltimore, but in NYC we do often hear actual proposals just like that, it's not even funny.
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 9:36pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:51pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:51pm
Mystery murder of 4 from Minnesota found in an SUV in a rural WI cornfield:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:13am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 12:39pm
Though the bodies were dumped in rural WI near Sheridan, the murders happened in St. Paul, MN (shall we ditch forensics, too, BLM?)
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 3:53am
^ Incredible detective work, too, like an intricate movie script
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:03am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:21am
Unless the police start pulling off some senseless street killings soon, people are going to stop hating them and start feeling sorry. Major PR breakdown.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:43am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:27am
The word is BRAZEN and sure as hell sounds like Philly police have lost most of their power to strike fear into those who think they are above U.S. law and even god's law:
Wouldn't be surprised to learn their guns are bigger and more powerful than those of the cops. I certainly would not want anyone like those two suspects free in my neighborhood and don't know anyone who would.
Thanks for the fish, 2020 Philly BLM protestors, rioters and looters!
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 12:33am
ah the Berkshires, a more peaceful part of PA, just lounging around in your Calvin Klein T-shirt thinking you'll never be arrested for that murder-robbery in the summer:
one dead, another hit in Louisville, and no one will ever chant their names in marches:
small town Davis, OK, not that far from the Chickasaw reservation, response to a 911 call ends up in struggle with man dead, office wounded MUST BE THE COP'S FAULT because he's still alive, amirite? Even though someone there called 911, they didn't really want cops to come, they wanted interrupters who wouldn't defend themselves?
Montana too! (Kalispell kinda gentrified, though, I gather):
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:05am
Charmng rap violence story of the day!
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:48am
The Settlement Factory That Kept R. Kelly’s Accusers Quiet
Some of the women testifying against the R. & B. star were once represented by Susan E. Loggans, who negotiated payouts with Kelly’s lawyers in exchange for her clients’ silence.
By Jim DeRogatis @ NewYorker.com, September 14, 2021
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 2:24am
Wow, almost as bad as Woody Allen. Who are the famous stars who valiently refused to work with R.Kelly, shutting down his record earnings?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 7:41am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 2:43am
I intuit from this story that you shouldn't mercy kill your wife with dementia via cocaine overdose unless you are absolutely sure all her relatives are okay with that:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:02pm
Get your passport ready, we're going to the Bahamas! Now how do you spell coke or meth?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:31pm
today in rap violence news:
p.s. I no longer wait for more trustworthy media to confirm this kinda stuff. Because the main takeaway should be that the subculture itself advertises these happenings, whether real or imagined.
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:15pm
I'm with him, the kids are not all right:
Rap culture + video game culture + Covid isolation, death without traditional grief rituals & the necessity of hiding the humanity of facial expressions with masks+ wide approval for ownership of handguns as a symbol of power + a year of coloring all cops evil, who happen to be the only agents of enforcing rule of law that we have
and you end up stuff like this:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 3:41pm
Update on Spotemgottem! didn't pass away at 19; is expected to make a full recovery after car shot 22 times:
Is it just me or anyone else get the feeling that rappers can hire P.R. agents that stage shootings and feed stories about them to the rap websites? To elevate their rep, of course.
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 11:36pm
6 am:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 5:22pm
I believe that video is directly from Molotov
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 7:56pm
the kids are NOT allright continued:
Beloit, Wisconsin
Plus there's a grifter preying on dead kids identities
she's another "success" for the "de-carcerate" woke theory:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 12:38am
the "breaking" I missed while I was posting above is not chopped liver:
and then there was also this one:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 12:49am
just like in The Sopranos, he was a "dedicated family man"
bet both these guys too, same thing:
some reports on more recent adult activities:
BUT WE DON'T WANT COPS DOING TRAFFIC STOPS, AMIRITE?
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 1:13am
the kids are not allright continued:
throwing him in cause he's only 21:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 4:51pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 11:21pm
^ notably peaceful ending, not so for these other folks in Baltimore before the cops got there:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 11:30pm
Can't go clubbing without your handgun -
nor to the liquor store:
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 11:37pm
Police identify 3 killed in overnight shooting in Pendleton
By WLTW5 Cincinnati staff. 9:18 PM EDT Sep 18, 2021
It's a big nothingburger, though, because they are young black males that weren't killed by cops.Will anybody that knows something call Crime Stoppers even though it's anonymous? I doubt it.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 12:08am
Careful about parking on that college campus, you could lose your life!
Don't go to that deli for a sandwich, you could lose your life!
Just because you were in the NFL, don't think you can protect your pregnant daughter from being shot to death:
(edit to fix incorrect last paste)
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 1:09am
The Seattle P.D. appears to like taking photos of new gun acquisitions for it's collection:
(D.V. = domestic violence, so I presume a social worker should have been rightly entitled to collecting that weapon instead?)
next yup,3 kids doing armed carjacking again, it's the new thing, allover the country! Like the Nike slogan, just do it, don't let that gun just sit there, you want a car too, right?
next up, social working again:
you never know what you'll find when you're investigating possible arson?
garden variety shooting:
oh and they appear to like to tweet pics of the drugs they find, too:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 12:35am
Seattle P.D. also got a hatchet from a guy who was stabbed in a 10-person brawl in downtown Seattle in the wee hours. They didn't tweet a picture of it, though! (Apparently it's the practice to just hold brawls downtown there, no nightclub needed?)
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 12:42am
keep in mind, this is not including knifings nor blunt force attacks!
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 1:45am
No rule of law in Chicago. What would the BLM plan for the country do about something like this?
edit to add -
just DON'T visit Chicago, that's the message:
vigilantism:
don't go to college in Chicago:
wash off blood when you stab someone?
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/19/2021 - 9:43pm
Perhaps they can put lawn chairs around town to stem the violence?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 3:20am
Or naybe more basketball courts and bike lanes?!
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 5:21am
I imagine Putin won't be trying the lawn chair thing:
doesn't look from this video like there's a lot of lockdown drills in Siberia
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 5:48am
Indeed:
other news:
In BLM future-imagined idyll without police, prosecutors and prisons, who is supposed to be handling people like the below? Social workers? This was their business, it's not that they needed a car, they were reselling what they stole:
More "it's not safe to go to college"
Not road rage. That happens when people lose control while driving. This is holding a grudge and thinking shooting someone will solve it, it's vigilantism:
Remember this 2019 case, the knifing to death of a young white female co-ed near Morningside Park? Some at the time suggested the teenager involved could not be responsible and was being framed (on the basis, I guess, that all black male teens are innocent good children?) Well, he just plead gulity to 2nd degree murder.
what is with all the sexual attacks on older women? some kind of killing demons about mean mommy? Or Karen's?
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 10:40pm
hah, former social worker, what else needs to be said?
Note the following is just for one "downtown" neighborhood, not all of Chicago
Neveda, dead teen, probably gang-related
Georgia dead teen and another teen near death, probably drug related:
Sicko situation, metaphor for a whole country full of people who bought guns for protection after BLM protests promoted defunding police and gave mulligans for rioting and looting at the same time:
Mobile, Alabama:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:09am
Southeast D.C. was a war zone today, so much so that I got confused by all the reports. Ken here straightened it all out for me:
But the 10th Place shooting of a women turned out to be a:female Special Police Officer shot dead, that was not known until after next of kin were notified.
Also, original reporting was that only 3 were shot on Albama Ave.; that's been corrected to 5, adding to the confusion.
Here's some more related tweets of interest:
I am pretty sure the following is a NEW STORY to add to Ken's list
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 1:27am
more on the shooting of 5 on Alabama Ave; the victims included a 13-yr.-old boy:
DCPD tweeted suspect photos which basically show a heavily covered hit man, which was odd for the location unless it was about a employment beef:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 1:35am
1 killed in quadruple shooting AT A VIGIL from a driveby in St. Louis. Photo in tweet from scene after the fact including black woman with white cop doesn't look to me like she hates and fears cops, looks more like she thinks they can help stop this violent plague. just sayin'
edit to add this related:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:48am
20 years old, gunned down walking home from the store last month for no apparent reason:
Maplewood is a suburb of St. Paul.
The police there apparently think his life mattered and will remember his name.
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:19am
The kids are NOT allright! The good ones have to be protected from the ones doing this, or they'll never get over it! That means "lock em up", like it or not. People have to come to grips with the fact that psychologists and social workers can't fix this but for 1 out of 100 and in the meantime it's so highly contagious in all kinds of ways.
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 1:57am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:11pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:17pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:46pm
Philadelphia police have released the surveillance footage of a drive-by shooting that left one person dead and five wounded Monday afternoon:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:52pm
Then skip to some news of today in Philly (I'll leave to your imagination the violence in Philly stories from Tues. & Weds. Or maybe they are posted above, it all runs together!)
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:08pm
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:18pm
retweeted by CWB
Special notice:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:22pm
Kroger: 2 dead, 12 injured
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_614cde92e4b03d83bad0dacc
That country over there is whack - safer to be in Afghanistan?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:36pm
ABC and NYTimes posted upthread here. (I admit I was pleasantly surprised to find NYTimes found it of interest enough to publish on it. But they are certainly not assigning the manpower of the Afghanistan drone story. Got me thinking: since Vietnam, there is media prejudice--and prestige-- towards proving a government any government is lying. Rather than a concern for actual things actually happening to people; i.e. good old fashioned beat reporting.)
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:47pm
starting to play rough:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 8:53pm
a little non-violent crime (tho I admit I am not sure of the whole story) for a break:
How bout that shooting of 13 at Kroger in TN, hey? The kind of mass shooting that used to get all kinds of attention at places like Dagblog. Now a shrug and the story just scrolls away. I think Covid has done something about our acceptance of risk of death, even doing something like grocery shopping. As if: nothing can be done about it. No vaccine available.
Parents need a new, very revised "talk", that's for sure....
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:35pm
"Molotov" amateur reporting from Baltimore/DC:
Should social workers be doing this work?! Or should we just ignore evidence of people shooting off firearms in urban areas where they are against the law? Is the NRA correct that if everyone had a gun, including the little old lady with a walker, everything would be dandy?
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:56pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 1:46am
Children (not teens) shot in Cincinnati, Waterbury, CT, and Indianapolis
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 2:15am
Need to get some social workers over to Fort Worth, Texas:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 10:03pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 1:10am
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 1:24am
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 1:33am
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 4:25pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 11:22pm
Denver:
different Philly shooting (shot in face)
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 12:55am
There's a depressing future worldwide as regards firearm availability without very aggressive policing taking them away as quickly as they can. ALTERNATELY, one can have a culture that looks down upon them instead of seeing them as a symbol of manhood and/or power.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 2:19am
trajectory of the horrific murder of a missing 2-yr. old black toddler yesterday in Baton Rouge with tons of people trying to help find her
he tweeted a lot more
he tweeted a lot more too
tons of desperate social media, retweet, retweet, retweet; flyers distributed etc. and stuff like this:
first horrible news
second
third final horror
tons of condolences like
Guessing advice of The Woke and BLM: We need more social workers and more self-defense guns to replace the police and FBI, then she would have been found much quicker by "the community"
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 7:50pm
It did not escape my thoughts that this is a mixed race family like my own and if this was happening to my little grand nephew not much younger than Nevaeh, I would be doing the same thing in desperation while hoping that top detectives and FBI were on the case.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "THE BLACK COMMUNITY." THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE AND BAD PEOPLE. That particular STEPFATHER has black skin and dreads and also happens to be SCUM OF THE EARTH. He deserves ZERO sympathy! While white members of the family care desperately about the child with black skin.,LOCK HIM UP! We need to have prisons to do that.
'The truth on topic, black people are just like whypipple. Skin color means shit:
What really needs to be abolished for this particular "racism" problem is "woke" segregationist race baiters like The Root. Results in shit like this:
and this, with no home to go to:
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 8:18pm
Bevy Smith apparently does not agree that prisons and prosecutors should be defunded/abolished:
Here's the reaction of some people with white skin who have seen the breaking news (others are still jhopefull retweeting "amber alert" type messages):
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 8:50pm
edit to add his further additions:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:54am
^ Besides the pain and insanity, IMAGINE WHAT THIS ONE LITTLE EPISODE COSTS IN DOLLARS!!!
First the cops on site and their supporting staff, their equipment use, and all the followup work.
Then the D.A. and the public defender hours and all their staff.
Then we got EMS, the medical teams at the E.R., the inpatient care, the outpatient care and finally yes, the social workers, because sure as shooting (pun intended) these guys don't even have Obamacare or Medicaid, so a social worker is going to come round at the hospital before discharge to start the process of accessing it for the sure as shooting major unpaid bills
And GUESS WHO IS GOING TO BE PAYING ALL THIS MONEY FOR THESE S.O.B.'s FUN LITTLE SUN. NITE SHOOT EM UP? (Or if you prefer, their recreation of a scene from Apocalypse Now)
Oh I forgot: there's also their upkeep in jail and prison and the staff time that requires.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:40am
It doesn't let up:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:55am
I guess the Minneapolis armchair brigade is not available in Bloomington to discourage this activity of dragging a woman's body to a dumpster after killing her? So someone had to call 911 instead and the perp decided to take the kid along for a little ride to see he could evade the onerous, abusive and racist police in that general area?
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:05pm
I am reminded for some reason of Marge Gunderson coming upon the perp working the wood chipper, but that was Fargo, ND.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:08pm
Most of Fargo was in MN i believe - a little perverse inside joke. (the Coen Bros. are from Minneapolis)
The woodchipper's in May, MN.
http://movie-locations.com/movies/f/Fargo.php
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:11pm
WaPo just published the tale of another scumbag:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:04pm
Federal jury finds R. Kelly gulity of racketeering
My mother used to say "don't make a federal case out of it." In this case, she was wrong.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:10pm
"and boys"?! I had no idea!
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:35pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:41pm