During the summer of 2020 when Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led “activists” were engaged in looting and destruction while waving “Defund the Police” signs and left-wing politicos all the way up to the Democratic presidential ticket were singing their praises while denigrating the men and women who put their lives on the line every day, violent crime started skyrocketing in Democrat-run cities across America.
The coronavirus pandemic in America began in 2021. Mandates in states and blue cities forced schools and businesses to close down, which only made crime worse.
At the same time, Washington, D.C. under Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser’s “leadership” saw its murder rate hit a 16-year high while Bowser made things like coddling Black Lives Matter and the BLM plaza, where “Defund the Police” messages feature prominently, priorities under her administration:
This document shows that DC spent $3million of “COVID relief moneys” at the Black Lives Matter plaza. It was obtained from @BreitbartNews https://t.co/ipHHmdymlV pic.twitter.com/1pwDilNMFD
— Mike Berg (@MikeKBerg) March 10, 2022
But in an all too familiar story, when a politician’s priorities are warped, it is oftentimes the people they represent who pay the price. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened in D.C., which has not only seen the murder rate rise to that 16-year high but which has also seen a surge in carjackings, with the most recent one leading to the death of a D.C. doctor who was hit by his own car by a fleeing carjacker:
According to police, a carjacker stole the car of a Maryland doctor and struck him while he was trying to retrieve it.
Dr. Rakesh Patel, 33, a doctor at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, became the victim of a fatal hit-and-run in Silver Spring on Tuesday after he left his car running while he dropped something off at his girlfriend’s house when it was stolen and later rammed him, Fox 5 of Washington, D.C., reported.
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Police believe Patel was struck by the vehicle. Fox 5 reports that the suspect then hit another person at the intersection. According to police, the suspect ran and was not captured.
The Daily Mail reports that the suspects later ditched the vehicle and attempted to destroy evidence.
Police have since released a video of the moment Patel’s car was abandoned by two men on 16th Street and Roxanna Road near the Maryland border. They are both dressed in dark clothes and can be seen getting out of the car with a bleach bottle and some floormats.
According to NBC Washington reports, the police suspect that they used bleach to try and clean out the evidence in the car. The men were said to have poured bleach in the vehicle.
When Bowser was asked earlier by a reporter about the killing of Patel, her response – incredibly – was to downplay it by suggesting that the carjacker “probably didn’t intend to kill” Patel. Although she made it clear that her family was devastated,
.@MayorBowserResponses to Qs regarding Rakesh Ptel, the 33-year-old @MedStarWHC doctor who was stuck & killed by his OWN car on Tuesday after someone had just stolen the car from him in Adam’s Morgan. @fox5dc pic.twitter.com/E64cZ9qySn
— Stephanie Ramirez (@RamirezReports) March 10, 2022
Bowser’s approval ratings are dropping for a reason, and this is one of them. When people want answers and are looking for information, it is not the right way to answer.
Another frustrating thing about all this is that Bowser is up for re-election this year and is likely to win another term despite all her failures, because if there’s anything we’ve learned from Democrat voters over the years it’s their tendency to keep putting the same failed politicians back in office and expecting different results.
Flashback: Mayor Bowser’s Summer Goes From Bad to Worse After Meltdown With Reporter and a WaPo Fact Check
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