PoPville » Double Stabbing at 14th and U St, NW Early Sun. Morning

Anonymous

When I was walking down U St. this morning, I walked across what looked like a long trail of a lot of blood. Now I know why. So disturbing. The police need to better patrol U St., so that these incidents stop becoming regular occurrences.

December 16, 2012 at 12:47 pm
- Anonymous
  
  And they need to do a better job of cleaning up after these worthless pieces of trash.
  
  December 16, 2012 at 3:20 pm
vrpatel

It’s official. U Street is the new Adams Morgan.

December 16, 2012 at 4:39 pm
- Anonymous
  
  as if u street has been untouched by violence until now?
  
  December 16, 2012 at 4:51 pm
  - vrpatel
    
    If we were only looking at violence, you might be correct. But then I would not have made that comment. Clearly violence is but one factor leading to my statement.
    
    December 16, 2012 at 5:22 pm
    - Anonymous
      
      does this post speak to you of something beyond violence? what?
      
      December 17, 2012 at 10:00 am
Anonymous

I took a morning stroll today just as Anon 12:47.

Around 9:30 am this morning I came across an obvious blood trail. While I didn’t follow it back to it’s origin I looks like it began somewhere near the McDonald’s at 14th & U St.

Somebody got VERY serious wounds because there was lots of blood, most ending down the ramp to the parking garage of the Reeves municipal building where there was a large pool of blood.

Not seeing any mention online about an incident, I flagged down a patrol car and pointed it out to the officer.

I’ve seen plenty of blood before, but after Newtown I just about wanted to vomit when I realized what I was seeing.

December 16, 2012 at 5:40 pm
- Anonymous
  
  The blood must be protected under the same historical preservation laws as that gdamn McDonalds.
  
  December 17, 2012 at 8:44 am
Anonymous

Does anyone know if this was a random stabbing or was it related to an earlier event (fight, etc)

December 16, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Anonymous

Ban all assault knives. And forks, spoons, “sporks”, and ice cream cones too.

December 17, 2012 at 10:07 am
- zero_sum
  
  I think it’s easier to just ban MD residents from “getting their drink on” in DC on the weekends. That would probably solve 75% of the problems in the U Street area.
  
  December 17, 2012 at 10:13 am
Anonymous

let’s start by getting rid of all mcdonald’s and 7-11′s…guarantee a drop in these sorts of incidents

December 17, 2012 at 10:13 am
- Anonymous
  
  +1000000
  
  December 17, 2012 at 10:59 am
  - Farnsworth
    
    Is this serious? “+1,000,000″ to a suggestion; in response to the news of a double stabbing; that we rid of all McDonald’s and 7-11′s?
    
    December 17, 2012 at 11:06 am
    - zero_sum
      
      Coded way of saying “Poor people who don’t look like me frequent these businesses.”
      
      See also: The Southern Strategy
      
      December 17, 2012 at 12:06 pm
      - Farnsworth
        
        I know. I just thought it’s funny that you could get so accustomed to the code within the bubble that PoPville apparently provides that you don’t realize how clueless you sound once you step out of it. The presence of two of the most successful retail businesses worldwide, brands defined by their global ubiquity and mass appeal, are in fact the distinct causes of the violence on U St.
        
        December 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm
      - zero_sum
        
        “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘Nigger, nigger.’”
        -Lee Atwater
        
        Replace “cut taxes” and “states’ rights” with “close the McDonalds!” and “the 7-11 should be closed – look at the thugs!” and you get pretty darn close to Atwater’s point. That’s why gentrification is so contentious; it’s wrapped up in all of this mess.
        
        December 17, 2012 at 1:27 pm
- Anonymous
  
  Or we could begin enforcing laws and sentencings so that people that commit violent crimes are not back on the street for a long, long time.
  
  December 17, 2012 at 11:00 am
Anonymous

One day, I was riding east on a 90s bus. As we approached the bus stop in front of my McDonald’s, the bus driving groaned and mumbled that he hates this stop. I asked him what he meant and he said, “there’s a food pantry near by. They all come on the bus with their bad attitudes and huge bags.” Maybe that’s the problem.

December 17, 2012 at 10:27 am
- Anonymous
  
  the huge bagging of america has been an on going problem.
  
  December 17, 2012 at 10:32 am
Anonymous

ah. so that was the cause of the giant disgusting blood stains all over the sidewalk yesterday.

December 17, 2012 at 2:30 pm