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Shots Fired Near White House in Attempted Armed Robbery
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WASHINGTON (AP) — D.C. police say shots were fired just blocks from the White House following an armed robbery attempt.
Police say it happened before 6:30 a.m. Friday near Lafayette Square in Washington.
Police say three suspects, including at least one with a gun, approached two people and tried to rob them.
D.C. police spokesman Araz Alali says the victims began following the suspects in their car, and that one of the suspects fired shots. No one was injured.
Alali says no one was immediately in custody.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:45amMust be a lie.D.C. has anti second amendment laws….Unless it was a congressman or one of Eric Holder’s thugs.
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1stzookid
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:56amAgreed
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Gonzo
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:36amDemocrat governed cities like D.C. and Detroit are dangerous places. Now we have turned the entire country over to them.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:43amOh well, what can you do, right?
This can happen in DC and it’s a big deal. We’re armed outside of the blue hellholes, and people tend to fight back. Let these blue areas fall into the sea for all I care.
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ellietoo
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:33amI’m sure it was the illegal gun’s fault. Not the crime rate or the fact that people cannot find a decent job. Not the fact that the schools stink so bad that a kid can’t get a decent education anyway. Remember Obama ditched the charter schools that were helping the poor get a better education.
The left’s solution? Get rid of the guns so then they can knife and bludgeon people to death.
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:23amThese guys can’t defend a stick fort, can they? It likens teenagers incharge. God help the living.
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oldguy49
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:34amhey……..is the police spoksman un…………or just another muslim
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:14amDon’t worry folks, Obama is safe. He would have had to actually be in the White House at some point to be in danger.
Now if shots had been fired near a golf course, then we would have need to worry.
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watchdogmom
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:11ampolice chief whooo??
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AmericanStrega
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:34amCaught that too?
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midwesthippie
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:00am…shots fired?…armed robbery?…not to worry it’s just the FEDGOV doing it’s thing…
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Steve28
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:54amJust another Obama voter redistributing wealth.
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scrapadapolis
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:53amLets see guns banned in DC except huntin rifles.The DC thugs have pistols..who’s guarding the chicken coop??I wish the DC sniper did the right thing and took out the entire government..Instead of sheep..
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Common Sense 24
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:48amInteresting. I seem to remember another robbery near there recently at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in the last few days. Some Kenyan Mulatto guy robbing a white guy.
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HKS
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:46amNothing to see here, just a little fallout from the Obama economy. Move along.
“Remember Benghazi”
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kickagrandma
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:46am“Near the wh”? There is no WHITE house in washingtondc.
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AJAYW
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:46amwhat a story
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:42amThis is a stick up, give me your food stamps and nobody gets hurt!
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:40amNope…..I will not say it… I will not say it…..
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:40amStaged. Another lie huh. And can’t catch them even? In freaking DC? Yeah, sure. This just in……. Superman commy the whole time. Capt. Old America too…Wonderwoman ran it all from a brothel in… DC.
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AMickey1126
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:39amUgh. Why do people do these things? This will be used in an argument to ban them now. You know, because criminals follow the law, too.
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RightUnite
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:54amAren’t they already banned in DC??
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watchdogmom
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:09amthe gov.needs more weapons to arm al-quieda with . Throw Them All Out!!!!!
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:24amHow can it be an argument to ban sidearms precisely? DC has totally forbidden them. It’s actually an argument to arm law abiding citizens.
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AMickey1126
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 3:41pmrightunite:
Yes, they are. I meant they’d use this story to ban them elsewhere. (It’s interesting to see how the gun ban worked – or didn’t – in DC, though.)
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biohazard23
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:30amSo? It’s DC. There’s shootings all the time.
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objectivetruth
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:46amYou aren’t kidding.The gun control ban really worked didn’t it/sarcasim.Forgive me I feel as though I’m drowning in a sea of idiots.This story exemplifies why.I can just about bet the person fleeing had no weapon.Gun control only suceeds at getting the law abiding shot.The criminals still commit their crimes.
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mike551
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:30amThe chickens are coming home! IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!
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AmericanStrega
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:43amIt will never happen Mike. Even if the House tried the senate would never allow it.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:29amOne more excuse for Obama to crush our second amendment rights whenever he pleases by executive order.
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decendentof56
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:37amExcellent observation!
All we have to do is take guns away from the legally registered owners and gun violence will cease. The gang members will follow suit.
The Gov. can then ‘protect’ us….right?
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:25amHow precisely? DC is disarmed, and you can’t carry there without spending time in prison.
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101stIraqVet
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:29amIt couldn’t have happened in a better place.
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Gary_K
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:29amNothing to see here, it’s just the government trying to spread the wealth.
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objectivetruth
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:43amActually its just the redistribution going on.They figured they would just steal back what was rightfully the taxpayers in the first place.OOps, it wasn’t the whitehouse that got robbed, just some poor soul near it.
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