Beyond Disturbing

For The past week, traffic along Connecticut Avenue in NW DC has been at a standstill for much of the day as families on Easter break made their way to visit the National Zoo. I expected the same to be true today, which is traditionally African-American Family Reunion Day at the Zoo. What I didn't expect to see was a mob of about 50 teenagers running between six lanes of cars in rush hour traffic. The teens were viciously beating another teen and repeatedly kicking him in the head with all their might. When the attackers finished with the beating they ran down the middle of Connecticut Avenue. They left the victim on the ground in the middle of the street directly in front of a car. The woman in the car was visibly shaken by what she had witnessed. The victim got up and began staggering back and forth in the street until someone called for him to come to the sidewalk. I could hear sirens approaching but traffic was too heavy to enable the responding officers to catch any of the attackers.

So disturbing. Such a sad commentary on the state of our society.

UPDATE: Apparently, I saw the continuation of this.

UPDATE 2: The story has gone national now.  Fortunately, it appears that the police were able to arrest a suspect.