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Shots Fired on Plain Clothes Police Officers’ Vehicle in Trinidad, Suspect Arrested

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From MPD:

On Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 7:15pm, MPD plain clothes officers were in the 1600 block of Montello Ave. NE. in an unmarked vehicle when they observed suspicious activity. As they approached the two subjects one of them fired at the unmarked vehicle. The suspects fled but were apprehened, the police did not discharge their weapons. There were no injuries to MPD members.

Category: Crime, props to the cops, Trinidad

By: Prince Of Petworth | 27 January 2013 10:18 AM | 10 Comments

wobble

What makes these goofballs think they can casually shoot at popo without getting in trouble? It only results to time in jail and a lifefime of being watched by popo. Really stupid.

January 27, 2013 at 1:03 pm
- Anonymous
  
  To be fair, stupid is sort of a prerequisite for most of these guys. Otherwise, they would’ve long since graduated from this schoolyard shit.
  
  January 27, 2013 at 1:41 pm
- Anonymous
  
  Stupid, and born into a hyperviolent society with terrible schools, easy access to weapons, and the lowest rate of upward economic mobility of all the advanced industrial democracies.
  
  You can’t fix stupid. But you CAN fix a society that turns “stupid” into “felon” at a much, much higher rate than Canada and Western Europe.
  
  January 27, 2013 at 5:28 pm
  - The Joker
    
    Always some dim bulb who finds a way to blame society to excuse bad behaviour. Yeah, it’s the weapons and lack of school funds (HA!, google how much DC spends per capita) why ‘youths’ are llike that. Boy, if only we passed more ‘assault weapons’ bans and threw more money at the schools, that would fix ‘em good.
    
    January 27, 2013 at 7:09 pm
    - Manimal
      
      That’s not what anon said
      
      January 28, 2013 at 8:22 am
- Anonymous
  
  Lead exposure. Until recently many of WASA’s water mains were lead.
  More on lead and crime
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21wwln-idealab-t.html?_r=0
  
  January 27, 2013 at 5:38 pm
- Tom
  
  Well it says twice that the vehicle was “unmarked”. If that means it was showing no signs of being popo, these guys thought they would just fire at a civilian car driving towards/near them. I think that is a little something to be worried about too. Especially at 7:15pm…yeah it’s dark outside now, but not exactly the middle of the night. It seems like these things are happening any time of day in this area.
  
  January 28, 2013 at 9:34 am
matt91

Too bad the officers didn’t fire at the thugs. They might have gotten a lucky hit.

January 27, 2013 at 7:23 pm
T

Seems as good a time as any to recall the guy who argued that Trinidad was the same as Mt. Pleasant. Yep, this sort of stuff happens EVERY DAY in Mt. Pleasant.

January 28, 2013 at 11:31 am
- Anonymous
  
  And Mount Pleasant is so boring I would just as soon live in a Virginia suburb – what’s your point?
  
  January 28, 2013 at 4:33 pm