Checkpoints Resume After Spate of Violence

Michael Birnbaum, Paul Duggan and Valerie Strauss
Washington Post
Friday, July 18, 2008

D.C. police yesterday resumed controversial checkpoints in the troubled Northeast Washington neighborhood of Trinidad after a series of overnight shootings and stabbings across the District left at least 11 people wounded and two dead, including a 13-year-old boy from out of town who was visiting relatives.

In announcing the checkpoints, police said they were searching for three suspects in the Trinidad attacks and a gold 2002 Dodge Intrepid that was allegedly used in at least one of the incidents.

The violence, on a brutally hot summer night that frayed tempers and kept people out on the street late, unfolded over an eight-hour span that ended at 3:30 yesterday morning.

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In Trinidad alone, at least six people were shot in separate incidents. Police working at one shooting scene could hear gunshots being fired elsewhere, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said at news conference.

Late yesterday, investigators appeared to be sorting out the details of the incidents, offering differing numbers of victims at several of the shootings.

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5 Responses to “Checkpoints Resume After Spate of Violence”

1. WakeUp Says:
   July 20th, 2008 at 8:21 am

   Does anyone other than me find it utterly ridiculous that if the police want to catch “the bad guys” by using checkpoints, logic states they they shouldn’t “announce” that they are implementing checkpoints? I’m not a hunter, but it seems to me that if you want to hunt something, the quieter and less visible you are, the greater your chances of success. This is no hunting expedition in search of an elusive Dodge Intrepid, but rather an unconstitutional “fishing trip” intended to boost government revenues with traffic/vehicle citations and warrant busts through the use of this “live” training exercise that conditions both the police and the public to such activities. As a parent, I really miss the days when we as kids used to wave to policemen; back before the public was seen as “the enemy.”

2. Darth Chaos Says:
   July 20th, 2008 at 9:01 am

   Maybe the cops carried it out as their own type of false-flag to “justify” the return of checkpoints.

3. Bean Says:
   July 20th, 2008 at 9:06 am

   Yes, checkpoints are a joke. Total conditioning to a change our society into a communist control grid. We complied with TSA now it’s time to expand the cattle lines into the streets. Just wait until American’s are treated like Palistians.

   The drug war worked like a gem.

4. NoBozos Says:
   July 20th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

   This looks a lot like the “perfect” lawless society created by the idiotic gun grabbers who ignore the 2nd Amendment. DC removed the right to legally own a firearm, now the only ones who can get them are the crooks and the cops. Unfortunately, there is often little difference between the two.

5. Melissa Says:
   July 21st, 2008 at 1:39 am

   WakeUp makes a lot of sense. There is something too strange about this. Nothing is what those in power say it is, there is always a reason behind the reason behind…