Posted on 01/10/2023 3:43:11 PM PST by Morgana
A 13-year-old boy in Washington, DC, was shot and killed by a homeowner who claimed he was breaking into cars. The community is demanding the shooter's identity be revealed.
Karon Blake was fatally shot with a legally registered firearm on Quincy Street around 4am on January 7 by an unidentified homeowner who heard noises outside of his home and thought someone was 'tampering with a vehicle,' DC Police reported.
The teenager and the man reportedly got into a confrontation before the shooting occurred, and after shooting him, the homeowner did perform CPR.
Blake, who was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds and is believed to have been unarmed, was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Two other youths are suspected of fleeing the scene after the homeowner approached them.
Police also said they found a stolen car in the area and believed the Brookland Middle Schooler had used it, according to NBC Washington.
Now, the local community is demanding the homeowner's identity be released and that he be charged with murder.
DC Police have said they are talking to the US Attorney's Office to decide if charges should be fired. Identities are typically not released until charges are filed, but the community members are demanding a name now.
'Vigilante behavior is not the way to go about it,' Frankie Seabron, a member of the DC Safety Squad - an activist group - said. 'We really should value people more than we value property.'
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Calling dirt bag Crumb.
Maybe, but if they already have no pulse, it’s certainly not going to make them worse off.
And really, just from an economic standpoint, a car is much more valuable than a 13 year old. A car can get me to a job, and a job can earn a living for myself and my family. I can’t even legally put a 13 year old to work for minimum wage.
charges will be filed if the color is right....otherwise, down the rabbit hole.
Actually the “confrontation” bit may be what saves him. You’re not allowed (in DC at least) to go shoot someone just because they’re breaking into your car. But if he confronted them about that, and then they attacked him, he would be allowed to defend himself.
Unfortunately, in DC it’s probably ‘parent’.
This historian says horse stealing was never a hanging offense in Texas.
https://lucketthistory.com/2020/08/13/history-mystery-was-horse-stealing-a-capital-crime-in-texas/
“This is what happens when you have Soros-backed, soft-on-crime scumbag DAs and judges.
It emboldens every petty thug and criminal to do whatever they want since there are no real repercussions.
Then, the decent citizens get tired of having what they work for vandalized and stolen by marauding freeloaders who will not be held accountable and they take matters into their own hands.
Justifiably, I’m most cases.”
It’s going to increase unless we get more sanity into controlling crime.
“Vigilante behavior is not the way to go about it,’ Frankie Seabron, a member of the DC Safety Squad “
Hey Frankie - if the cops and courts have **stopped working** (ie crime is out of control), there is a power vacuum. What fills that vacuum? Vigilance Committees.
The US has a long history of this - why is Frankie surprised? I’m not the least bit surprised - only that folks haven’t started stringing folks up off of the off streetlight - yet.
Read the book - *Starship Troopers* - I’m mean really *read it* and the history of the American Empire that it tells.
If the justus system won’t control the ferals, the victims are forced to deal out justice.
I didn see nuffin.
100%...
We just need expanded free school lunch (breakfast, dinner…) programs so that he won’t have to steal cars for lunch money. Some midnight basketball probably wouldn’t hurt either.
Death to car thieves.
Jacksonian Democrats WERE slavemasters. The Democrat Party is what it has always been.
Just call it a 52nd trimester abortion and send Planned Parenthood the bill so they can pay him for his services.
‘We really should value people more than we value property.’
People who work to earn the stuff they have do it by spending their precious time of which we are all given an unknown and limited amount on this earth.
When someone steals your stuff they are stealing hours of your life. Pisses me off to hear this lame value people over property crap to justify not punishing thieves. It’s not stuff, it’s hours of my life that I can’t get back and replacing the stuff requires more hours of my life.
Thieves are murderers who steal life in installments.
He f- -cked around and found out.
Flashing gang signs at 13; and at 4:00 a.m.? Would like to know the criminal background of his parents. If I was the owner of the car, I’d seriously consider moving; especially if the young thugs dad or friends are members of gangs.
You never know when the urge for Skittles and iced tea will hit.
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