<div dir="ltr">Yes, putting a name below a posting is helpful, useful and preferred practice. Signing, or making it clear that it is coming from <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lincoln Park Newsletter (and its email address </span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"> </span>friendsofcapitolhillparks at <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>) is not exactly anonymous and will do for me. I can go to its webpage and get an idea of its style and tone. <div><br></div><div>But more importantly, at least nine bullets were fired by a bunch of people riding mopeds and/or ATV's, killing an individual (targeted or random still unknown) and also damaging two cars. <br><br>I repeat ... one or more persons riding through our neighborhood fired multiple shots killing another person. They fired them with no concern for injury or damage beyond their intended victim. It is absurd to write this, as if it is OK to only murder their intended victim. Walk to the location at the corner of Kentucky and East Capitol. Take a moment to find the yellow circles of the bullet casing on East Capitol. Look at where the victim was standing (corner of the treebox) and give some thought to where those bullets could have ended up. You could have been walking your dog or parking a car on our street. It was not that late; 10:08 pm. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Discussing listserv etiquette with such intensity, in light of the bigger events that triggered it, is baffling. Perhaps it is an indication of how we have normalized and accepted violence in our city and neighborhood in the past 5 years.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, I dread parking after dark, usually a block or two away, I worry about my daughters riding the metro from school and walking from Eastern Market to home and I hesitate to take a walk on a nice evening (the nicer the evening the more likely that bad actors are out there too). <br><br>-Yannis Labrou<br><br><br><br></div></div>