June 18, 2008
Multiple Shooting at Anacostia Metro Station
A Metrobus driver and two other people were shot just before 1 p.m. today in the bus bay area outside the Anacostia Metro station.
One of the shooting victims is described as being in critical condition -- NBC4 says he appeared to be about 18 years old and suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. The Metrobus driver sustained a non-life threatening injury due to a bullet grazing his head. The third victim also suffered a minor gunshot wound. All three men were taken to area hospitals.
Police are on scene and investigating. The bus bay area has been closed, but trains continue to run normally through the Anacostia Metro station.
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Man...I hate dc. The level of ignorance is just astounding. All this to prove what?
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...their anger at the Trinidad debacle?
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Why, to prove who's the gee with the biggest d**k, of course!
As we all know, only the baddest, biggest d**ked muthaf***ers ride the bus.
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This city is most certainly doomed. I'm moving to Barcelona.
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Well, that's one way to battle the increasing ridership.
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@ Zippy
Right because Washington D.C is the only place on earth were senseless violence occurs.
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What the hell, man?
If DC can't control violence basically one stop away from their big, shiny baseball stadium, why should I be able to trust them to keep me from getting shot right north of there?
Clearly, this is a hyperbole on my part, but when violence occurs in that general area, it makes me think twice about chilling around the stadium at night.
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I'm in the IT business. When we have an outage, we don't just reboot everything and hope the problem doesn't recur. We conduct a root-cause analysis, so that we can avoid future problems of that type.
Where is the root cause analysis for this crime. How will we get on the road to stopping this sort of crime? American society does not like to ask itself these kinds of question, and instead gravitates towards Biblically-inspired dogmatic responses ("an eye for an eye" and variations thereof), rather than seeking evidence-based solutions.
This might be a good time to look at the relatively violence-free cities of Western Europe and ask ourselves: what are they doing right?
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"Right because Washington D.C is the only place on earth were senseless violence occurs."
No, but we've got a shitload more than many other cities, and many in DC seem to think that's how it works in all cities.
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The Anacostia station is on the other side of the river from the stadium. Although it may not be that far in terms of distance, there's a BIG difference in the safety and "niceness" of those two areas. I really wouldn't worry about getting shot at a baseball game.
DC has a lot more violence than many other cities because it has a large, poor, and under-educated black population that feels disenfranchised and forgotten. These feelings are exacerbated by the fact that they live near a bunch of wealthy, well- educated, and powerful white people. If you know how to fix that disparity, then we could go a long way towards solving this city's violent crime problem. Good luck on figuring that one out.
And with respect to Western Europe, although a lot of those cities have relatively little violent crime compared to the US, they tend to have large amounts of petty crime (theft, robbery, etc.) I live in Belgium now and people are regularly pick-pocketed, mugged, and have their homes broken into. They just aren't shot. Makes me wonder if maybe the easy accessibility of guns in America is the real root of its violent crime problem.....
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The government can't really prevent anyone from getting shot, so you shouldn't trust them to do that.
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"Clearly, this is a hyperbole on my part, but when violence occurs in that general area, it makes me think twice about chilling around the stadium at night."
Um, how big is 'that general area'? I mean, it's all the way across the freaking river, probably 20 blocks away.
Totally different neighborhoods.
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WestEnder, as soon as Western Europe goes 5 years without a race riot, I'll ask them what they're doing right. It's our history and the near impossibility of fixing the problems that we and europeans created here are where our problems lie.
Of course, I never worked in IT, so what do I know about fixing the big problems. Maybe it really is as simple as a culture diagnostic.
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DC has a lot more violence than many other cities because it has a large, poor, and under-educated black population that feels disenfranchised and forgotten. These feelings are exacerbated by the fact that they live near a bunch of wealthy, well- educated, and powerful white people. If you know how to fix that disparity, then we could go a long way towards solving this city's violent crime problem. Good luck on figuring that one out.
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Man I'm so tired of hearing that fucking excuse. My family was poor, we didn't pop caps in people asses for no reason. People need to stop making excuses and strive for something. The AA community has as much access to wealth and prosperity as anybody else especially in DC...just not getting it done and its pathetic.
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@monkey, lol. It's hard out there when a pimp has to rely on Metrobus to be on time for a scheduled gun-battle.
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Was I excusing the African American community for the crime and hate that pervades it? No, of course not. I was merely diagnosing the root of the problem in DC. You combine a large socio-economic disparity with past racial injustices and a warped "thug culture" and you get a situation where a lot of people are angry and aggrieved and this leads to violence. Again, this isn't an excuse. The sooner the African American community in DC loses its "victimhood mentality" and stops blaming everyone else for its problems, the better it and the rest of the city will all be. Of course the govt can help out by improving the schools, offering vocational training, and increasing police protection, but at the end of the day, the change must come from within the African American community. This change must create a new societal norm where violence is neither accepted nor glamorized. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make that happen and am not optimistic. That's one reason why no one has been able to solve DC's violent crime problem.
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Up until fairly recently I was living two blocks from the new stadium, and shootings were fairly frequent there. The day I moved out (after my apartment had been burglarized and I'd gotten fed up with all the crime) I had a gun flashed at me by a guy lurking outside. It may not be Anacostia, but that area still has a long way to go.
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Ok, yes, I realize that it's quite a way, but a shooting 20 blocks away is still too close for my comfort.
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How could this have happened? Don't we have gun control?
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I suppose I'm jaded after living in Columbia Heights for six years, but it seems to me things worked out for the best in this situation. Nobody was killed, the innocent bystander was merely grazed, and the shooters were both arrested, so they'll hopefully not be in the shooting business much longer.
Maybe it's those violent video games I used to play?? And I have no problem hanging out in the baseball stadium area, and I'm a small, nerdy type. I'll take a nice bullet grazing anyday!
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"Ok, yes, I realize that it's quite a way, but a shooting 20 blocks away is still too close for my comfort."
That describes the majority of the actual city.
I'm not saying your concern isn't justified.
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letoofdune: i have to second hillman. most of downtown is 20 blocks away from some seedy part of town. does that keep you from going there? violence isn't acceptable, but if you're looking to stay that far away from it, you maybe ought to buy a boat and live in the middle of the chesapeake.
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I dunno. The middle of the Chesapeake is still too close to the Island of Misfit Inbreds, Smith Island. Scarier than the Island of Dr. Moreau. I'm talking about the Val Kilmer/Marlon Brando remake here.
I'll take Barry Farms maniacs over jibberjabbering, chromosome missing, Elizabethan spouting island folk any day.
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"You combine a large socio-economic disparity with past racial injustices"
Sorry, Dr. Eurostar, but you have misdiagnosed the root cause. An overwhelming majority of the crimes committed by those blacks seeking to vent their frustrations against "socio-economic disparity" and "racial injustice" are committed against other poor, past-racially-injusticed blacks. But I can understand how someone living in Europe wouldn't understand anything about about life in urban America.