Whitey Ford
11-26-2022, 03:41 AM
D.C. Activist Who Pushed for City's Soft-on-Crime Bill Shot and Killed
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Kelvin Blowe was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on the same day the city council voted unanimously to pass a bill he advocated for that reduces penalties for serious offenses such as robbery, burglary, carjackings, and carrying a firearm without a license.
The Washington Post reports Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to right inequities he believed he encountered."
After getting out, he joined DC Justice Lab, one of the groups that pushed to overhaul the city's criminal code. He testified in support of the proposed bill in December.
"The bill passed earlier this week, reduces the mandatory minimum sentences, which are already lenient for gun offenders [and] felons in possession of illegal guns," D.C. Police Union Chief Shop Steward Adam Shaatal said in reaction to the news.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/11/21/activist-who-push-for-dc-soft-on-crime-bill-shot-and-killed-n2616197
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Kelvin Blowe was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on the same day the city council voted unanimously to pass a bill he advocated for that reduces penalties for serious offenses such as robbery, burglary, carjackings, and carrying a firearm without a license.
The Washington Post reports Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to right inequities he believed he encountered."
After getting out, he joined DC Justice Lab, one of the groups that pushed to overhaul the city's criminal code. He testified in support of the proposed bill in December.
"The bill passed earlier this week, reduces the mandatory minimum sentences, which are already lenient for gun offenders [and] felons in possession of illegal guns," D.C. Police Union Chief Shop Steward Adam Shaatal said in reaction to the news.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/11/21/activist-who-push-for-dc-soft-on-crime-bill-shot-and-killed-n2616197