Ward 8 representative Trayon White made his case for a military deployment during an impassioned press conference Tuesday — just feet away from where 3 people were gunned down over the weekend near the corner of 16 Street and Good Hope Road in Southeast.
A D.C. Council member said Tuesday that the mayor of the nation’s capital needs to join him in calling out the D.C.made his case for a military deployment during an impassioned press conference Tuesday — just feet away from where three people were gunned down over the weekend near the corner of 16 Street and Good Hope Road in Southeast.said crime in his ward east of the Anacostia River has become a “cancer” that’s spreading to other parts of the city.said.
The council member said he is seeking an armed, uniformed presence that is visible throughout the District. In 1993, former D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly requested that President Bill Clinton allow the mayor to call in a more robustdeployment over the District’s crime woes. Mr. Clinton ultimately rejected the request.
Juvenile suspects are increasingly involved in the dangerous crimes, particularly carjackings, as judicial consequences are seldom delivered to the underage offenders. Tempie Satcher, the mother of 35-year-old Bernard “BJ” Hodges, who was slain during the gunfire along with Tymea Cook, 27, and Reginald Gilbert, 34, was on hand as Mr.Her son was a father of four who held three jobs to support his family — one as an HVAC technician, one in the boiler room at MGM Casino and another for a water company, Ms. Satcher said. She said he had just dropped off his kids when he shot.
Ms. Satcher also called the shooters cowardly, which was a point that was echoed and amplified by Geraldine Jackson, Mr. Gilbert’s aunt.
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