Georgetown North Face robbed at gunpoint
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: Crime, MPD, Robbery, The North Face
On Wednesday at 1:45 p.m., five subjects entered The North Face store at 3333 M Street, took “a large number of garments from the displays,” and exited the store without paying for them, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant John Hedgecock, who wrote an e-mail to the MPD Second District listserv about the crime.
As they exited the store, Hedgecock wrote, the security officer employed by the store pursued and confronted them as they were getting into a four-door Mercury Marquis that was black or dark in color. When he confronted them, the driver of the car pointed a silver handgun at the guard and said, “Back up.”
No one was injured in the robbery. Hedgecock did not make any other details available about the vehicle or suspects. A daily summary of crimes in the Second District reports the robbery and gun incident as happening within a minute of each other, suggesting that between the two incidents, the suspects and the security officer were running like the dickens.
Photo from Flickr user Jason Pier used under a Creative Commons license.
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Now we are seeing the effects of Georgetown’s North Face culture. Outcasts feel they must resort to violence to gain entry to the privileged upper crust. I call for a forum to discuss the North Face jacket’s destructive effect upon our community.
why not the crimer indeed
I blame Republicans and white people for this crime. They just don’t understand what wearing North Face actually means to people who can not afford it. I will gladly attend a forum on this issue as it is pertinent to our college community, and everyone who does not see this as important must be racist.
You cannot blame anybody for this crime. The only ones at fault are the ones who did the crime. It was probably gilbert arenas anyway.