Comments on: Reader Shares Horrible Mugging Incident

By: AlE

AlE — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:42:59 +0000

Although in the immediate aftermath the victim may not have remembered that you came out and offered assistance, I hope at some point she did remember and appreciated your support.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:41:41 +0000

That’s not true. More money is spent per child in dc than in most places. What needs to change is how children are raised.

By: Lover

Lover — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:12:29 +0000

The problem here is EDUCATION, and this will never change until the education in the US is funded by the federal government equally, so everybody have the same chances. On the other hand, profiling always works and its efficient. Profiling is a different name for statistics.

By: Annons

Annons — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:14:00 +0000

Yes, totally agree with this!

By: Lees

Lees — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:10:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing your view. If I were in the same situation I would have done exactly what you did – call 911.

And it seems the incident was over before anyone could intervene (beyond calling the police).

By: Anns

Anns — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:57:05 +0000

Totally agree – any personal safety training will reinforce this. Give them your stuff. And don’t just hand it – toss it on the ground in one direction and run in the other.

By: EK

EK — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:59:29 +0000

Excuse me, as another DC native (born in SE), don’t give me that “their city” nonsense. No one has a right to live in an area, especially if they can’t even take good care of their own damn cities.

I don’t care for kickball, lattes, snowball fights, and especially midwestern white people, but gentrification is far better than what my fellow “natives” have done to their own city. Nothing but entitlement, jealousy, and resentment on their part. It’s easier to collect government handouts and vote for Marion Barry than actually get your ass in shape like first generation Asian immigrants.

By: yeah

yeah — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:17:52 +0000

EXACTLY!

By: BC

BC — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:53:20 +0000

Additionally, it is totally unreasonable to expect civilians to physically intervene putting themselves in harms way as well. The most that any of these people should have done is call the cops of yell out at them to stop. But you can’t *expect* a woman to come out of her house or a cab driver to get out of his car, run over and try to fight them off, putting themselves in danger. If they did – that would be very honorable and courageous. But you can’t be mad at people for not coming to your rescue – they were probably just as afraid as you girls. It’s awful this happened – but so fortunate it did not end tragically. … and hopefully any future victims will know better – just hand over the phone and purse immediately. It’s not worth dying over.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:46:24 +0000

Wow lots of racists here.

As a DC native, it wasn’t too long ago – 6-8 years even – that Logan was totally shady. The transients need to realize that this isn’t San Fran, SD or NYC even. My friends lived at 14th and Wallach for years (until 2006) when the only place on 14th was the Black Cat – and they use to get mugged often. You can’t stroll around with your cellphones out, texting and being totally ignorant of your surroundings. This is DC – former murder capital of the nation. It may look prettier and more gentrified with all the white people walking around these days – but it’s still a sketchy, violent city. And I call B/S to the public housing profiling/racist commentary – this was *their* home long before yours so don’t come in with your GenY sense of entitlement and think it’s your place to kick out the poor DC natives. In fact if that’s your argument, then you should be hauling your podunk-ass back to your Midwest styx.