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D.C. Police Chief: Prosecuting Teen Who Killed Uber Eats Driver As Adult Won’t ‘Bring Back The Lost Loved One’

By  Ashe Schow

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Apr 7, 2021   DailyWire.com

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Mohammad Anwar, a 66-year-old Uber Eats 

driver in Washington, D.C., was killed last

 month after two teenage girls assaulted 

him with a Taser and stole his car. The

 girls crashed the car, which resulted in

 Anwar’s death.

Normally, the murder of a Pakistani 

immigrant would capture media attention

 for weeks, but the with the killers being

 black teen girls, it quickly disappeared. 

The girls, aged 13 and 15, were also able

 to reach a plea deal that allows them to

 “avoid detention in prison facilities and 

will not be held past the age of 21,” The

 Daily Wire’s Ian Haworth previously

 reported.

Earlier this month, Acting D.C. Police 

Chief Robert Contee III gave some 

disturbing answers to questions regarding

 the case, RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar 

reported. When asked by Fox’s D.C. 

affiliate about the 13-year-old girl’s alleged

 involvement in a separate carjacking, 

Contee reportedly said:

That’s one of many. We have one for that

 

particular –  one of the individuals involved,

 

but there are several carjackings that we

 

have had so far this year where we’re

 

seeing individuals that are involved in

 

multiple, multiple cases. So clearly I think

 

that speaks to us really examining, as a

 

community, the accountability that’s in

 

place. You know, how is it that someone

 

is charged with carjacking or is responsible

 

for carjacking commits another carjacking

 

and another carjacking? I think it’s the

 

larger issue than just this one particular case.

Van Laar reported that 1010 carjackings

 were reported in D.C. between January 1

 and March 28 of this year. During the 

same period in 2020, just 22 carjackings 

were reported, suggesting the response

 to such crime has been insufficient.

Contee was also asked if he believed the 

15-year-old girl should be tried as an adult 

for her alleged crime, to which Contee replied:

The 15-year-old would not be charged as

 

an adult. You know, obviously, this is a tragic

 

case and, you know, charging this person

 

as an adult [who’s] a juvenile … does not

 

bring back the lost loved one in this case,”

 

said Acting Chief Contee,” And certainly,

 

again, the 15-year-old would not be

 

eligible as a Title 16 case. You know,

 

and it’s not really pointing fingers at

 

anyone – the courts or anyone.

“If that’s the logic, charging anyone with

 any degree of homicide is useless since 

it doesn’t bring back the lost loved one. 

Is there a case in which the manner in 

which defendants are charged DOES bring

 back the lost loved one? Because I’m sure

 there are a lot of wives and husbands 

and granddaughters and grandsons and

 moms and dads who would like to have

 their lost loved one back,” Van Laar wrote.

The two girls were reportedly approached 

with plea-bargain offers from a prosecutor,

 a move that likely would not happened if

 the two teenagers were male.

“He was a hardworking immigrant who

 came to the U.S. in 2014 to build a better

 life for himself and his family,” Anwar’s 

family said in a statement. “The loss for

 his family is immeasurable.”

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