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