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Man Who Helped Pass DC's Soft-on-Crime Bill Fatally Shot and Killed on the Same Day it Passes |
2022-11-26 |
[Gateway] Last week, hours before the council unanimously voted to pass D.C.’s controversial criminal code reform, a criminal justice policy advocate who helped pass the bill was fatally shot and killed, Washington Post reported. Kelvin Blowe, 32, was shot dead after a car crash just before 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Blowe is a member of DC Justice Lab, an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform in DC’s criminal legal system. On the same day, the city council unanimously approved a bill he supported that reduced penalties for criminal offenses like robbery, burglary, carjacking, and firearm possession without a license. The Washington Post reports Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to right inequities he believed he encountered." After getting out, he joined DC Justice Lab, one of the groups that pushed to overhaul the city’s criminal code. He testified in support of the proposed bill in December. The Marine Corps veteran, who was diagnosed with PTSD, was working as a security guard and was taking coworkers home last week when he was shot and killed when a gunman "emerged from a stolen car after a crash with Blowe. Authorities said they believe Blowe also possessed a weapon, as they recovered a gun next to his body... Blowe’s family said they did not know he had a weapon." After the crash, Blowe got out, approached the car, and was shot. It is not known if Blowe pointed his firearm at the suspects, who fled the scene and have yet to be found. The police stated that no arrests have been made and that the investigation is still ongoing. "There is powerful false narrative in the District that criminal justice reform is fighting for leniency in lieu of safety...It is about freedom and safety," DC Justice Lab wrote on Twitter. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#8 Mmm,irony. Bitter, yet sweeeet |
Posted by: Regular joe 2022-11-26 13:04 |
#7 I know there must be a downside to this, but I'm having a hard time finding it? |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-11-26 12:56 |
#6 I'd like to say that only in Washington DC, home or Marion Barry, could a guy like that get elected to the city council but these days I don't know. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-11-26 12:53 |
#5 Irony and Karma met with Murphy to reaffirm, that all Actions Have Consequences. Darwin just nodded in agreement. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-11-26 11:46 |
#4 "...spent over five years in prison for robbery" and carried a firearm? In Washington DC? *Blink* *Does not compute* |
Posted by: magpie 2022-11-26 11:40 |
#3 Irony and Karma met with Murphy to reaffirm, that all Actions Have Consequences. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2022-11-26 04:40 |
#2 Sometimes you get what you ask for. |
Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-11-26 03:45 |
#1 Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to Well, whaddaya know? He won in the end. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2022-11-26 02:51 |