Posted on 04/02/2010 10:58:53 AM PDT by freespirited
NO AMOUNT OF investigation will ever be able to explain how a disagreement over a lost bracelet could end up costing four people their lives. It is unfathomable. There must, however, be answers to the troubling question of whether this week's horrific shooting in Southeast Washington could have been averted if government or law enforcement had acted differently....
Four young people -- the oldest was 19 -- were killed and five others were wounded when armed assailants in a minivan drove past and shot indiscriminately into a crowd. ...It appears, as The Post revealed in a horrifying account of the tragedy, that a bracelet gone missing at a party a week earlier may have set off a series of events that culminated in the shooting.
What makes the shooting even more disturbing is the revelation that police wanted one of the suspects, 20-year-old Orlando Carter, arrested last week on suspicion of a March 22 murder, but prosecutors refused to seek an arrest warrant from a judge because they believed there was insufficient evidence....
Then too, there must be answers from the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services; the 14-year-old driver of the minivan, as well as one of the victims, appears to have been ostensibly under department supervision. The driver, who has been charged as a juvenile in Tuesday's shooting because D.C. law doesn't permit 14-year-olds to be charged as adults, had nine previous convictions, including theft and assault, and had absconded from the department's custody. The agency has undertaken many worthy reforms, but there have been troubling and persistent questions about how it places and supervises troubled youth in community settings. How was this boy being supervised, and were there missed signs of problems?
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It's obvious that he wasn't being 'supervised' at all.
Allow citizens to conceal carry.
Its a major deterrent.
But Washingtion is in the dark ages of liberal hegemony.
The Post is only upset at the government’s failure to supervise him. That his parents were nowhere to be found doesn’t seem to faze anyone.
“Government” can’t fix society’s problems. Increasing “government” involvement in our daily lives is causing the disintegration. At the root, America is in the midst of a moral collapse, and the violence is just a symptom.
It's a problem that they did not arrest a person that they had insufficient evidence to arrest?
So, how about instead, last week, the government arrested this "poor yute" even though they had insufficient evidence. What are the odds that the WaPo would have been screaming racism and abuse of power?
Just boys being boys. Ask them why? They will say I don’t know. It was a good idea at the time. Somehow I think there is a culture clash between the post and these killers. They now this happens but they don’t want to do what needs to be done.
There are plenty of sarcastic comments right on the WaPo site.
I don’t think they’re going to win this one.
The 14-year-old driver “had nine previous convictions” and the editorial asks, “were there missed signs of problems?”
Ban bracelets.
When Shep Smith reported this on fox the other day, he closed the segment by stating that the Supreme Court recently reversed the ban on guns in DC insinuating that this was the cause.
So, it seems to be the fault of the police that there are young people who have no moral compass?
The moral compass was destroyed Jan 22 1973. Morals? We don’t neeeeed no stinking morals.
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