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I’m getting reports of a shooting @ 100 M ST SE. Seems like the teen curfew isn’t working. I can’t wait for Monday’s announcement. It’s time to lock DC down with overwhelming & sustained law enforcement presence. Flood the zone. Jail the perpetrators appropriately & take the city back for law abiding citizens. @USAO_DC @JudgeJeanine @DCPoliceUnion @MAGAIncWarRoom @RapidResponse47 @realDonaldTrump

The @DCPoliceDept tweet corroborates these pictures. This is absolutely out of control. There’s a public safety crisis in DC perpetuated by children with guns. @USAO_DC @DCAttorneyGen you need to put your heads together and figure this the f*** out.

I’m hearing reports that the shooter entered the ARRIS Apartment Building at 4th & Tingey SE and DC SWAT has evacuated residents. Absolutely unthinkable. Navy Yard has descended into mayhem.

Navy Yard 2013-2017 was safe, clean and a great place to live. Justin’s was bumpin’, the Nats were good & you didn’t have to worry about being jumped, groped or carjacked. What happened @charlesallen?

Hey @charlesallen, you’re the guy that forced @DCPoliceDept to nearly cease traffic law enforcement Summer 2020 during your huge defund the police push. People don’t forget. @recallallen @DCPoliceUnion

Anywhere at anytime. Shattering your sense of safety & innocence. Driving in DC is like playing Russian Roulette and the odds keep getting worse each day.

I spent 2013-2021 in Navy Yard. Went to that CVS dozens of times. It wasn’t always like this. What changed?! @councilofdc, @DCAttorneyGen, @USAO_DC & @charlesallen intentionally & openly stopped supporting basic law enforcement. Nice work, clowns. cc: @recallallen

It’s time to call set an under 18 curfew, institute stop & frisk, deploy heavy foot patrols with National Guard (if needed due to manpower shortage) and begin impounding/screening expired temp tag cars. Enough is enough.

The federal law enforcement surge & sober assessment of DC’s soft on crime laws by the administration - especially for juvenile offenders - is a long time coming. What’s remains incredible and utterly predictable is this city’s hysterical reaction to a lawful action that has zero downside for law abiding citizens. The laws haven’t changed nor have civil rights for U.S. citizens. It is merely a policy decision to actively enforce the laws (lackadaisical as they are in many cases) that are on the books. If you’re a law abiding citizen, what do you have to worry about? Why does this city prefer to prioritize criminal behavior over public safety. How many innocents have to die before we course correct? Because it’s @realDonaldTrump who’s doing it - that’s why. The Trump Derangement Syndrome on this issue is so acute that DC refuses to acknowledge a basic objective reality - that violent crime and homelessness are at unacceptable levels. The city and its leaders either never had or have lost all objectivity on the subject of crime. They are clinging to statistical comparisons between a set of years when the murder rate had already reached a 20 year high. Between 2020-2024 DC crime reached a fever pitch. Carjackings, muggings and murders soared. Neighborhoods once gentrified for a decade plus backslid into mayhem. This was and remains the objective reality. Shootings in places where they hadn’t happened in years, brazen murders, innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets and the list goes on. While this was happening our elected leadership told us to grit and bear it - handing out free steering wheel locks and sharing defensive driving techniques applicable to war zones. In fact, the @councilofdc and members like @charlesallen wanted to double down & further dial down traditional law enforcement even further in favor of unproven & dangerous social welfare policies that have proven to be rife with financial corruption & scandal. For however long this surge lasts it won’t solve the underlying problems of laws that are too lax for juveniles & violent offenders. Until those are reformed and repealed, criminal behavior will not change. We’ve finally reached a point where the diagnosis is irrefutable and now it’s incumbent that we address the root cause. 1/x

Under the Youth Rehabilitation Act @charlesallen championed, these perpetrators could get off really easy and be freed once they turn 18. If you disagree with this, it’s time to @recallallen.

4 armed gunmen assault innocents @TheWharfDC. A multi billion dollar redevelopment project reduced to a war zone. When will developers & business owners begin to pressure @MayorBowser @councilofdc?

Hey @lululemon, in how many other major cities have you opened a store only to close it due to crime? Lululemon Navy Yard 2018-2023.

In @charlesallen’s DC, criminals are blameless actors forced into violent crime b/c of an inadequate social safety net & law abiding citizens are an afterthought. One of society’s main purposes is to protect law abiding citizens & punish criminals. DC has it a** backwards.

I lived/worked in Navy Yard for 8 yrs. Dined at Blue Jacket first day it opened. Navy Yard was a safe, growing & wonderful example of redevelopment from 2012-2018ish. @JDLand covered crime & there was rarely even a theft. Now there’s shootings & carjackings daily. @charlesallen

We need to all pause & understand how & where the the crime sycophant rhetoric comes from. @charlesallen uses rhetoric that minimizes, deflects & tries to obscure what’s happened. He has to be recalled. PERIOD.

There’s nothing left to discuss. No more time for excuses & blame shifting. We know the reasons crime has spiked in DC and now it’s time to @recallallen. Stop aiding and abetting his scam.

1. Catch and release needs to stop. 2. Catch and detain needs to start. 3. Charge them as adults. 4. Violent offenders belong in jail. 5. Repeat violent offenders deserve long sentences w/o parole. 6. Public safety above all. 7. DC has a massive under incarceration problem.

What an embarrassment to the city and public servants that obey the law and serve the public good, not themselves. Absolutely disgraceful misappropriation of history.

This is pathetic @Reagan_Airport @MWAAHQ. Blocking traffic to an airport is not peaceful assembly — it’s reckless endangerment. @JasonMiyaresVA @GlennYoungkin @GovernorVA @justindotnet

DC is a war zone. @USMarshalsHQ @FBIWFO @USAO_DC @GOPoversight @RepJamesComer @HSGAC_GOP. We need federal intervention now. Everything should be on the table including vehicle checkpoints and stop and frisk. The streets are not safe.

Imagine buying or selling a $1.47M house and right outside the door, gangs of armed teens roam the streets preying on you or your innocent neighbors. Tough selling point. But many Capitol Hill residents think crime, homelessness and blight are just part of “city living”.

If this doesn’t terrify you about the state of DC’s lawlessness, I don’t know what will. We live in the Wild Wild West.

BREAKING NEWS: @DCAttorneyGen has confirmed his five senses do indeed function and that he or his “office” is “aware” of what criminal conduct looks like. Have no fear DC residents our Attorney General can watch video of crimes in progress, we are saved!

When is @charlesallen @CMCharlesAllen going to address the concerns of crime victims & not patronize the perpetrators? Soon car insurance companies will stop coverage in DC, if this keeps up. Shame on @councilofdc.

The moral depravity of the criminals empowered by @charlesallen has reached a point of no return (obviously). It’s time to register your objections & @recallallen. Enough is enough. Sign the petition today! recallcharlesallen.com/

The evidence is irrefutable, @charlesallen aided & abetted the DC crime wave. Anyone that says anything to the contrary is telling you to not believe your empirical reality. The more the woke left tries to tell you to not believe your lying eyes, the more righteous the cause.

Read the room Charles. This week it’s time to resign and apologize to the crime victims you’ve neglected for years. In a just world, you should be held criminally liable for the chaos you’ve caused.

Why are VA & MD sentences for violent offenders so much stiffer? Lots of 6-12 year bids for murder in DC. Maybe it’s b/c @councilofdc is the only elected body dumb enough to reduce penalties for violent crimes lessening the deterrent for violent offenders - sparking a crime 🌊🌊.

100 block of 12th ST NE ravaged Tuesday night / Wednesday morning. We live in a lawless city.

Ward 6 is in a state of lawlessness with City Officials completely content to ignore the problem & double down on the policies that led to this chaos. @Anc6B10 @FeverPotomac @DCPoliceDept @311DCgov @charlesallen @CMCharlesAllen. This is not normal!

It’s pathetic that the Naomi Biden incident was the catalyst for the MSM to finally acknowledge the severity of the DC crime crisis. Crime has gotten worse for the last 5 years and has finally boiled over into the mainstream consciousness. Will @councilofdc wake up? I doubt it.

The @theHillisHome’s selective outrage is laughable. 1. Y’all pipe up about parking tix for a GOP member when there’s a violent crime wave? 2. Y’all don’t realize it’s your progressive policing policy preferences that cause lax traffic enforcement in the first place? 🤦🤦🤦

Our elected officials are “frustrated” when there’s a drive by that could have ended with unspeakable tragedy. DC needs a full reset top to bottom with pro law and order electeds and a zero tolerance policy for gun offenders.

This unfortunate fellow might be the most tone deaf elected official in the history of DC. There’s a lot of material to choose from in the hey day of this city & somehow 👇 continues to deliver takes that couldn’t fly in a middle school Model UN. It’s sad really. Resign please.

Welcome to the chat @LokayFOX5. The current crisis was wrought by intentional policies to essentially decriminalize violent crimes by teens. Law was authored by @charlesallen. Why not invite him on your show & ask him to defend his decisions?

Carjacking sentence should be life without parole. Period.

He’s starting to feel the heat. Let’s keep it up & recall him in the meantime.

It’s real life Grand Theft Auto & @MayorBowser @councilofdc have no answers. @charlesallen needs to resign in disgrace. Is this rock bottom?

No exaggeration. @charlesallen @BrianneKNadeau believe that carjackings are just part of city living. @brookepintodc too but she saw where the political winds were blowing and did an about face. The whole @councilofdc stood pat while @charlesallen dismantled @DCPoliceDept.

It’s almost comical at this point, if it wasn’t about a life and death matter such as public safety, that we have to @recallallen. He’s an out of touch low level elected official that can’t figure out that people don’t like being carjacked & robbed.

Local News Outlet tries to “both sides”DC’s teen carjacking epidemic. And people wonder why our elected leaders feel like they have political cover to ignore the crisis. This is victim shaming. Nothing justifies someone shoving a gun in someone’s face and stealing their car.

cc: @CapitolPolice. This is one block from the Capitol Hill childcare center where there is usually an officer on duty. Why are there violent criminals prowling the streets with reckless abandon? @charlesallen

If the @councilofdc overrides @MayorBowser’s veto, they all need to be recalled. Alternatively, the city should be given back to the Feds. Home rule has failed.

Hi @AllisonPapson. Thank you for tweeting about the DC crime crisis. Has @fox5dc reached out to @charlesallen to ask him why he hasn’t moved to repeal his “criminal justice reform” initiatives that created this crisis and the @DCPoliceDept staffing shortage @G_Pem.

Narrator: it was @charlesallen that pushed the first boulders down the mountain causing the crime landslide. Now he’s walking around the rubble looking for survivors to save his own political hide. When are you going to mea culpa? Thanks to @FeverPotomac we have the receipts.

Why drive @uber in DC, if there’s a good chance you’re going to get carjacked? So far almost 900 this year and almost 6000 stolen cars? Do you care about the safety of Uber drivers? Will you ask @JoeBiden why it’s ok to have a capital city about to surpass a 20 yr homicide high?

This is what you call performative public service. 🤡🌎

*Carjacked in front of a preschool just steps away from Lincoln Park where dozens of kids play and are walked by their caregivers.

Crocodile tears from #AnarchyAllen Resign, Recall, Replace - it’s the only way to save DC. @charlesallen @recallallen

Around the East Capitol / Lincoln Park area, I’m dismayed to see a number of anti @recallallen signs. It seems to me that many Ward 6 residents live in different realities - wherein persistent violence is a feature not a bug of “city living”.

Step 1: recall @charlesallen h/t @recallallen Step 2: repeal all of his crime enabling legislation Step 3: vote out @BrianneKNadeau & @ChmnMendelson Step 4: push @USAO_DC & @DCAttorneyGen to prosecute criminals Step 5: Scrutinize DC Superior Court picks for leniency biases.

Prosecutorial permissiveness in our nation’s capital is a national scandal.

What about driving home from work worrying about being carjacked? It’s happened 900x this year. What does that do for mental health @MayorBowser? The lack of recognition of this crisis is 100% intentional. Citizens that care about DC cannot let their electeds ignore the crisis.

.@USAEdMartin we need an all out assault on teen crime. Zero tolerance. No more “New Beginnings” summer camp. Either tell @DCAttorneyGen to do his job or find a way to do it for him. We’re sick of being terrorized by teens with guns & nothing to lose.

DC’s devolution into lawlessness shatters one’s sense of safety in their community. @charlesallen & his @councilofdc cronies have waged a war against right & wrong & citizens’ mental health. The wreckage is everywhere. Tonight, a likely stolen car at 8th & Const. NE @311DCgov.

Hey @Brkfldproprtl, how’s the @CapitolRvrFront @TheYardsDC Forest City acquisition going? Seems like the @charlesallen crime wave is bad for business.

TLDR: the robbers will shoot you, if you resist. DC’s streets are an absolute war zone.

Absolutely horrific miscarriage of justice. D.C’s juvenile crime laws are broken. Murder is murder - not a ticket to summer camp. Life without parole for repeat violent offenders. Why do innocents have fewer rights in DC than violent teens?

DC streets are real life Grand Theft Auto scenes. It’s astonishing & shocking. What is the tipping point for action to protect everyday citizens? Murders, beatings, and carjackings. It seems like nothing is alarming enough to wake up @councilofdc @charlesallen @brookepintodc.

.@USAO_DC it’s time to sit down with @DCAttorneyGen and make him an ultimatum. Clean up the teen crime or the Feds will. No more trips to summer camp aka New Beginnings for vicious teenage felons.

A national disgrace. Resign in disgrace @charlesallen, @MayorBowser, @councilofdc and @USAO_DC.

The whole redevelopment narrative has crashed. Imagine trying to convince a biz to take a chance on a new neighborhood that’s been riddled with bullets. Time to speak up @AkridgeRE & other DC developers. Billions are on the line, since the woke folk don’t care about lives.

Good riddance.

According to our “leaders” @MayorBowser we’re supposed to be impressed with a week without a murder. An afternoon murder at metro station is not normal and no the media shouldn’t give any credit for a few murder free days. What a pathetic state of affairs @recallallen

Law abiding citizens will be watching you @DCAttorneyGen. Do the right thing and charge the perpetrator as an adult, in the name of justice. But let’s be honest… you probably won’t because you’re a crime enabling chaos agent. @dccrimefacts

Maybe the @theHillisHome account will text their buddy @charlesallen and let him know the neighborhood is a war zone.

DC’s city leadership unequivocally does not care about victims’ rights. Law abiding citizens’ interests are pushed aside for the needs/equality of outcomes gibberish for a violent criminal minority.

It’s time for an intervention @GOPoversight.

Hi @Safeway the area around your store in SE DC is a carjackers playground. Maybe weigh in with the @dcchamber or some group that cares about safe access to groceries & ask the fools running this city to secure the area b/c @councilofdc doesn’t listen to its human constituents.

A little history lesson is warranted. Around 2016 when @charlesallen became the head of the council’s Judiciary subcommittee he embarked on a “criminal justice reform” campaign that sought to soften the penal code because of its “disproportionate” impact on certain populations manifested most notably by relatively higher incarceration rates. This social theory had been making the rounds in academia & progressive civil rights groups and they itched to put this new theory into practice. Allen was a ready & willing accomplice. At the time, DC crime had experienced a sustained down period. The theory went something like, the way to get crime down even further is to go after the perceived “root causes” of crime most aptly described as socioeconomic distress. The theory goes if you throw public money at this problem crime will go down. Criminal justice reform theory’s other prong holds that sentences, bail, prosecutorial and sentencing practices need to get softer because they have been heretofore unjust as seen by the disproportionate incarceration rate. Essentially, make it harder to put people in jail and hopefully the increased social spending will keep them out of jail. So now you’ve got a situation where you’re letting people off easy and essentially paying to hope the criminal element in the population will stop offending. Allen executed this plan to near perfection lowering sentences, effectively freeing people under 25 from detention or long term incarceration. He also reallocated money away from the police budget to his preferred social welfare programs. He pretty much succeeded by 2020 and then the George Floyd incident happened and he and the council kicked the effort into overdrive. Allen effectively unmasked himself as a “defund the police” champion. @DCPoliceDept was effectively stood down. They stopped enforcing laws at every level including traffic laws. At this point, whatever constraints previously in place that had brought DC to where it was on crime had been undone and the horse was out of the barn. Society gave many inches and criminals took many miles. It didn’t take long for criminals to respond to the incentive landscape and crime erupted. The 2020-present day era has been well documented with the litany of heartbreaking stories and jaw dropping callousness by judges and prosecutors that have allowed violent reoffenders to be set free prior to trial only commit murder in some cases. In conclusion, the voting public must remember that this was a methodical and dogged public policy effort by Allen and his colleagues. Today, the same actors are still in power and his criminal justice policies are still on the books. Real change will come when his policies are repealed.

This is what democracy looks like to @charlesallen. He’s running scared of the truth.

Surge @DCPoliceDept presence on H. The corridor is the Wild West. Remove the vagrants occupying bus shelters and doorways, cut out the public drinking on corners and close the illegal weed shops. The real businesses making a go of it on H St NE will thank you. @USAEdMartin

Do people forget that DC leaders like @charlesallen implored the @DCPoliceDept to stop enforcing traffic laws in the name of social justice?

Criminal charges should not be off the table for Judge Staples. This is gross negligence or public endangerment of some sort. The victim’s family should also consider a civil wrongful death suit. This cannot be allowed to be swept under the rug. dccourts.gov/sites/default/f…

Are you going go prosecute @USAO_DC? @dccrimefacts @ChuckThies. The media needs to follow these cases much more closely than it does.

This is called treating a symptom and not the problem. @USAO_DC & @DCAttorneyGen must prosecute teen carjackers as adults and seek 50 year sentences no parole. Leniency on the bench must be exposed and shamed. Then let’s see how things shake out.

Given the confusion I saw play out on twitter this morning & lack of clear communication from public safety agencies, it’s a good bet to follow @alanhenney @DCNewsLive @RamirezReports @RealTimeNews10 @PenguinSix so you know what’s going on around you. Stay safe out there folks!

.@councilofdc logic: if we eliminate individual car ownership, carjackings can’t happen. The council’s “war on cars” is being waged on multiple fronts. Most egregiously by the permissive crime environment. However they also serve a vocal minority of bike & “urbanism” advocates.

I respectfully think it’s time for a real conversation with @charlesallen about the current lawless state of the neighborhood. Don’t you think so @AmberGove @LauraGentileANC? Seems like a priority that people shouldn’t be carjacked in front of their homes.

Where is the outrage?! There are armed gunmen wandering the streets of our neighborhoods. Why are people so naive to think that carjacking is the extent to what they will do?

Wrong! Your tyrannical pursuit of criminal leniency caused this. Resign!

Here I fixed it for you. Someone was murdered on the X on Tuesday night. Instead of “open streets”, that needlessly inconvenience residents, why don’t we try “safe streets” or “crime free streets”. What a novel concept. DC consistently fails at providing basic city services such as public safety & instead focuses on distracting residents with bread and circuses. @DCDPW @DDOTDC @councilofdc @charlesallen @CapitolHillBID @MayorBowser @MurielBowser @DCPoliceUnion

🙏🙏🙏 for the officer to be ok. @SecretService @USParkPolice are engaging criminals, while @DCPoliceDept is sidelined by anti cop city leadership.

Catch and release is for trout. Not for violent criminals. @USAttyGraves

Family friendly Capitol Hill for the Charles Allen lovers! What happens when your pediatrician has no supplies because they were robbed? Things are going great in Ward 6.

Clear evidence that DC has backslid into a deep morass of crime & lawlessness. This news is directly attributable to the policies of @councilofdc @MayorBowser @MurielBowser @charlesallen @CMCharlesAllen & their actions to destroy the morale & might of the @DCPoliceDept.

Way to bury your head in the sand @MattLaFortune. The irrefutable truth is that @charlesallen seeded the ground for the crime wave with anti police legislation to lower criminal penalties for the very perpetrators terrorizing DC streets. You are a 🤡.

The “urbanist” on display in this context is proposing a radical left wing ableism and tyranny. They propose that elderly, disabled or working people should get around their own neighborhoods on their terms - meaning we’re all forced to take some form of mass transit. Luminaries like this one, expect essential transportation to be conducted on foot or by bike. No thanks.

Good start!

Why is their registration and license still valid? How are they still on the road @dcdmv @DCPoliceDept? Oh right! It’s @charlesallen’s pro crime policies. I forgot. Silly me.

There’s a receipt for every bit of contrived outrage DC establishment and media intelligentsia are now displaying about the lawlessness they created for the last five years. My favorite cosplayer is @maustermuhle who is surprised that drivers in DC don’t follow traffic laws.

“Unfortunate female bystander”. What an embarrassing understatement. A Peace Corps employee on his way to dinner was killed on 14th St corridor in 2021. INNOCENTS are dying left right & the defund sickos @councilofdc keep right on trucking along like it’s another 40 degree day.

Absolutely frightening & despicable answers. No acknowledgment of the victims and their trauma. Shoving a gun in someone’s face is not a “teenage” mistake. Normalizing armed robbery is insane. @DCAttorneyGen is enabling crime & turning a blind eye to crime victims. #recall

Anyone with a brain knows that hookah bars & weed “gift shops” don’t make a neighborhood. H St NE is a crime ridden wasteland. The woke gentrification strategy has crashed and burned.

Will you speak up on air? Maybe ask @MayorBowser why she isn’t vocally opposing the @councilofdc’s actions.l on crime & criminal justice “reform”. There’s a silent majority in this city that feels the way you do.

Another night of real life Grand Theft Auto on the streets of our nation’s Capital & crickets from our elected leaders. Zero respect for their constituents & zero accountability for them or the criminals. This is a failed city. @councilofdc @charlesallen @MayorBowser

We’re in the age when truth needs to prevail. Thank you @alanhenney @RealTimeNews10 @NW_Realist @ChuckThies @DCPoliceUnion @FeverPotomac @SocraticSand @TrumansLeg @rollin_vip @Anc6B10 @NavyYardCrime and many others.

TLDR: doing business in DC is no longer safe for owners, employees or customers. Congrats @charlesallen, you’re one step closer to your social justice utopia.

Amidst a catastrophic crime wave, here are @councilofdc’s priorities laid bare. DC wants to be a state but doesn’t know the definition of citizenship.