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Police seek teen suspect in slaying of American U. grad on D.C. Metro
Washington Post ^ | July 5 at 6:14 PM | Michael Smith and T. Rees Shapiro

Posted on 07/06/2015 6:38:42 AM PDT by palmer

He was a Connecticut transplant thriving in his adopted city, a policy and politics wonk known to capture sun-basked monuments, cherry blossoms and the marble halls of power in Washington with his ever-present camera.

On July 4, Kevin Joseph Sutherland stepped onto the Metro to visit friends, but he never arrived at the gathering.

In an altercation police believe was the result of a robbery gone awry, Sutherland was stabbed to death aboard a train during the Saturday afternoon rush at the NoMa-Gallaudet U station on Florida Avenue NE.

... and he decorated his student government office at American University — where he advocated for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights — with posters depicting glam shots of pop star Lady Gaga...

... At the time of his death, he was working as a digital political strategist with the firm New Blue Interactive....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: knifecontrol
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Liberalism kills.
1 posted on 07/06/2015 6:38:42 AM PDT by palmer
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Pajama Boy murdered by feral black thug


2 posted on 07/06/2015 6:41:30 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Jasper Spires, 18, was arrested Thursday on an unrelated charge of robbery using force and violence ... was released Friday -- the day before Sutherland's slaying -- when the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor

3 posted on 07/06/2015 6:41:56 AM PDT by Cboldt
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The Social Justice Warrior, seemed to be wanting in the warrior component.


4 posted on 07/06/2015 6:42:05 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: palmer

DC has had a few of these kinds of crimes indeed.


5 posted on 07/06/2015 6:43:12 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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Probably killed by an anti-gay Tea Party member


6 posted on 07/06/2015 6:43:28 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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“Gay activist killed” the headline could read. I didn’t read the full story. I am sorry anyone would be murdered in such a fashion.


7 posted on 07/06/2015 6:45:10 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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#stopkillingwhitey


8 posted on 07/06/2015 6:47:46 AM PDT by YourAdHere (It's Hillary's turn (to testify))
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To: BeadCounter

Yes, sad, and preventable. What is needed is less PC liberalism, welfare state, and broken black families.


9 posted on 07/06/2015 6:49:20 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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Get those Rebel flags down in DC!!!


10 posted on 07/06/2015 6:50:02 AM PDT by armydawg505
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The perp. Why would he kill a fellow liberal?
11 posted on 07/06/2015 6:50:53 AM PDT by jimbo123
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“According to D.C. police records, Spires, 18, was arrested Thursday on an unrelated charge of robbery using force and violence in Northwest Washington. A police report said that the suspect reached for a man and asked, “What do you have in your pockets?” He then grabbed the man by the neck and pushed him against a wall, the report said. He left and was arrested by police about five minutes later. “

The suspect, Jasper Spires was released on this?? And the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor? There should be a lawsuit for what this judge did.


12 posted on 07/06/2015 6:50:54 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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#blackknivesmatter


13 posted on 07/06/2015 6:53:27 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Another black on white hate crime I see.


14 posted on 07/06/2015 6:54:51 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Riding public transportation while white.


15 posted on 07/06/2015 6:56:55 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Spires was released Friday — the day before Sutherland’s slaying — when the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor, according to court records.

What's it called when a judge commits murder from the bench? Is there a term for that?

16 posted on 07/06/2015 6:59:17 AM PDT by samtheman
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OK.

I read the article.

"Pajama Boy"?

Yes, he certainly appears to have been that. He also appears to have been a very dedicated, committed, hard-core advocate of various leftist causes, and a leader of other young, dedicated leftists. I saw nothing in the article about gun-control specifically. The irony of a dedicated leftist and presumptive gun-control activist being murdered in a situation where armed self-defense might have been helpful is hard to miss. Also hard to miss is that the urban black criminal class, exemplified by the multiply-arrested suspect Jasper Spires, is largely a creation of the leftism advocated by the late Mr. Sutherland. I only regret that Mr. Sutherland did not seem to have had the opportunity to repent, prior to his violent demise at the hand of a wretched excuse for humanity.

17 posted on 07/06/2015 7:00:48 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Joe Sutherland said that his nephew was planning to visit Philadelphia for the holiday. He said that Sutherland always traveled with his camera and that he is concerned that perhaps the quality of his equipment might have caught a robber’s eye.

“I’m afraid that might have contributed to this case,” Joe Sutherland said. “It would have been a mighty lucrative target for a robbery.”

So it must have partly been his fault, taunting those poor criminals with his wealth.

18 posted on 07/06/2015 7:01:30 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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What is a bit of a surprise is the time of day, Saturday afternoon and in what is a somewhat safer area in Washington, D.C.


19 posted on 07/06/2015 7:03:28 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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He was for gun control. So says his twitter:

https://twitter.com/KevinSutherland


20 posted on 07/06/2015 7:04:39 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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