Thursday night two people were shot in Washington DC that sent commuters and diners running for safety. The men weren’t killed, but the gunshots rang out in a good section of town where people were enjoying their evening. This from therightscoop.com.
This has gotten everyone’s attention and Friday the police chief in DC gave a press conference out on the street in which he dropped some heavy truth bombs on the city.
Curtis Houck did the hard work on this one:
D.C. police chief Robert Contee on rising crime in the city: "It's unacceptable in any community…This should be shocking to the conscience of every person in our city. I don't care where you live, it has the attention that it is gotten now b/c it's happened where it happened." pic.twitter.com/pNIvgBlI0l
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 23, 2021
Contee is being very honest about the justice system, saying it doesn’t work because the courts are barely open and people often end up right back on the streets:
D.C. police chief Contee is BRINGING it: "The justice system we have right now is not functioning the way that it should. The courts are not open. That is a fact. Barely open. So cases from last year…they have not been disposed of, what do you think those individuals are?" pic.twitter.com/H4YKxGzsmO
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 23, 2021
This is a great one where Contee says emphatically that “you cannot coddle violent criminals,” arguing they may not want a job and might not want services, but they need to be taken off our streets because they are making them unsafe:
Contee: "This was real for some people, but it has been happening in communities all across the city…You cannot coddle violent criminals…You cannot treat violent criminals who are out here making communities unsafe…What they make require is to be off of our streets." pic.twitter.com/cCsEFun5Jf
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 23, 2021
Contee is clearly pointing the finger at government leaders in his city:
Contee: It's outrageous to see "families suffer when they don't have to b/c we are putting violent criminals, allowing them to be back out…That's unacceptable. So what do we do about it? We have honest conversations w/the people, the leadership…the council members." pic.twitter.com/UTZOTVK5SF
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 23, 2021
As a final note, Chief Contee says we have too many guns on our streets, but to be clear, he doesn’t mean you and me. He’s talking about criminals having firearms and using them to make the city unsafe. The guns he wants off the streets are the illegally possessed guns—the stolen guns and the guns in the hands of people who we all know should not have them for reasons of safety.
