The Simulation does have a mean streak.
A criminal justice reform advocate who helped pass sweeping changes to the criminal code including reducing sentences for those convicted of crimes in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed in the city last Tuesday, just hours before the city council passed the bill.
Kelvin Blowe, 32, worked as a policy and advocacy associate at DC Justice Lab and testified before the DC city council about reforming the city’s justice system.
Around 5:25 a.m. on Nov. 15, he was on the way home from his job as a security guard when he was shot and killed in the southeastern part of the city.
“It’s kind of hard to put into words what it feels like to see his work come to fruition without being able to share in that celebration with him,” Patrice Sulton, Executive Director DC Justice Lab, told Fox 5 DC. “In some ways the timing of it is an added injury on top of the loss. And I think we lost a really powerful voice in a really important movement and that’s not something that we’ll be able to replace.”
The city council passed the criminal justice overhaul hours after his death. If it is signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser, then it will get rid of most mandatory minimum sentences, expand who is eligible for jury trials, and reduce maximum penalties for burglaries, carjackings and robberies, according to the Washington Post.
“It’s kind of hard to put into words what it feels like to see his work come to fruition without being able to share in that celebration with him,” Patrice Sulton, Executive Director DC Justice Lab, told Fox 5 DC.
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Please forgive me….this article made me laugh out loud.
I mean, it’s is more than a little bit funny. Karma is a bitch
I think the word schadenfreude is appropriate.
Has anybody, anywhere, ever written a better sentence of parody than that?
I’m a little disappointed in myself as well taking pleasure in earned tragedy. But experience suggests I’ll get over it.
“… that’s not something that we’ll be able to replace.” You mean that there are limits to the supply of stupidity? I always thought it was infinite. There’s more Hope than I thought.
Hard to put into words. Easy to put in guffaws.
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It’s a form of suicide, really.
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Reminds me of the scene in Raw Deal. Arnie says to the defeated corrupt DA, “So this is what they call poetic Justice.”
The beauty of the woke, in the largest, Bluest cities, is that they are destroying themselves.
‘Kelvin Blowe, 32, worked as a policy and advocacy associate at DC Justice Lab”.
Is there anyone at the justice lab calling for longer sentences because listening only to one side of an argument is never a good thing.
That reads like a Babylon Bee story.
Likely it will be covered by “Not the Bee”…so ironic, and weird but true.
Will his murderer be honored as well?
“reducing sentences for those convicted of crimes in Washington, D.C.”
Jail sentences should be eliminated for everyone, just like the Capitol police, those in the House and for the big guy. Let the January 6 people walk.
This piece gives mixed feelings ….
On on hand I am very sad to see the leftist clowns refusing to punish dangerous criminals and help keep the public safe.
On the other hand I am laughing my ass off when I think about this fool being taken out by one of the maggots he helped keep out of jail.
Irony is also humor.
Not trying to be mean, though it should happen more often.
One less crime promoter in a city that already has too many of them
Does FJB know ? It was cornpop!