What occurs when an 18-year-old thug brings his outdated, inferior S&W Sigma 9mm (but it surely has a laser!) to aim a carjacking of skilled U.S. Marshals guarding Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s residence in Washington, D.C.? Suffice it to say issues didn’t go effectively for Kentrell Flowers. He acquired himself shot and his gun taken away.
A lot for a model new trip on this evening. Perhaps he ought to have gone to summer season college as a substitute of taking a carjacking apprenticeship to go together with his pre-med research at Georgetown.
Simply kidding about Georgetown.
The NY Submit has the soiled particulars in regards to the crime that lies simply beneath the picturesque components of Washington D.C.:
A deputy U.S. Marshal shot a would-be carjacker who pulled a gun on him whereas he was guarding Supreme Courtroom Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dwelling in Washington, DC, authorities stated.
Two deputies had been parked exterior Sotomayor’s dwelling in northwest DC on July 5 when Kentrell Flowers, 18, allegedly walked as much as one among their automobiles round 1:15 a.m. and pointed a gun on the bodyguard, the U.S. Marshals Service informed The Submit.
Mr. Flowers will seemingly survive his wounds.
For individuals who don’t have lengthy reminiscences, David Harsanyi notes on X how the identical Justice Sotomayor sided with the dissent within the landmark McDonald determination that the little individuals in America – individuals such as you and me – haven’t any proper to armed self-defense.
“In sum, the Framers didn’t write the Second Modification in an effort to defend a personal proper of armed self protection.” — Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald https://t.co/qSWVRiY444
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 9, 2024
Straightforward to make such pronouncements once you get a protecting element watching over you and your loved ones 24/7, which most of us don’t.
The Submit additionally mentions a few different high-profile carjacking-related shootings that occurred in DC in latest months.
In November, Secret Service Brokers defending President Biden’s granddaughter Naomi opened hearth on a gaggle of carjackers who had been attempting to interrupt into an unmarked Secret Service automobile simply earlier than midnight in Georgetown.
In January, former Trump administration official Mike Gill was fatally wounded by a carjacker as he sat in his automobile on Ok Avenue at about 5:45 p.m.
The Secret Service has a protecting element on Biden’s granddaughter Naomi? Does Hunter’s child with the stripper gal additionally take pleasure in a protecting element? Someway I doubt it.
