Montgomery County police responded to a report of a second-degree assault at the Connie Morella Library (a.k.a. Bethesda Library) at 7400 Arlington Road on Wednesday afternoon, December 22, 2021. The assault was reported at 12:10 PM, according to crime data.
Another second-degree assault was reported in downtown Bethesda later that evening. Police were summoned to the 7700 block of Woodmont Avenue to investigate that assault at 6:30 PM.
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Call dispatched as library staff member having been touched inappropriately by [client/customer/patron/someone not staff.]
The homeless and mentally ill population that loiters in Downtown Bethesda has definitely grown over the past couple of years. Reap what you sow you Woke Leftists.
The homeless population in downtown Bethesda is growing. Many are unseen- tucked into corners along sidewalks. Others are very visible and vocal. Some winter nights, you'll hear the voice of a mentally ill homeless person echo throughout the downtown, speaking to no one in particular.
@1:59 PM: It's definitely noticeable and it's a shame. Brought to you by the woke leftists on the corrupt Moco County Council who are just fine with it.
@11:20 and 7:00AM Maybe you should live in West Poedunk, Idaho if you are so adverse to the homeless population. They exist in every major and minor city in America, even in rural areas. Be careful what you complain about, you to may some day live in a cardboard box. RWNJ!
@1:29 PM: What do leftists like yourself stand for? I thought it was about making things more fair. About standing up for the little guy. About human rights, equality (equity?), compassion? A number of cities across the County, including Bethesda, look like the least compassionate cities across the world. All across the County, you have groups of people wondering around, looking like they're on the brink of death. You may call yourself a Democrat and a Progressive, but what you lack is actual compassion. That's right. You are cruel and indifferent to this plight. In fact, your "solution" is to tell someone who's concerned about it to move somewhere else so that your one-party rule can leave them where they are.
All the feel good buzzwords that you probably use: "harm reduction"; "housing first"; "criminal justice"; "social justice"; "equity".... None of those align with what's happening at all. Your strategy is more of "harm increased"; "housing last"; "victim injustice"; "social injustice"; "unfairness".
If you had the willingness to self-reflect and look at the Progressive politicians in charge of Moco, you wouldn't be so dismissive. You'd actually have a serious dark view of them and their failures. They have absolute power. They act like a regime and frequently talk about how "broken" the system is. So are these homeless people their foot soldiers, mascots or mercenaries? Progressives like yourself tend to blame Republicans for everything, but no Republican has any say in anything that happens in Moco.
There are probably more Black Lives Matter signs up here than in any County in America, and a substantial number of homeless people are Black. Do their lives matter to you, or is this just about virtue signaling and moral grandstanding? You do the latter because that's all it is to you. You put up the signs and close the blinds. You believe that you're righteous because you've pledged your allegiance to the righteous Progressive tribe. You believe you're moral because you believe in higher taxes. You believe you're virtuous because you believe in big Government.
If you believe in big Government, then why isn't your version of big Government doing the bare minimum to provide food, shelter and clothing to every homeless person on the street and get them off the street? Where's all the money going?
You're stuck in a Progressive tribalist view, where you're so desperate to fit in that you'll blindly follow left-wing causes even when they make no sense.
You should feel ashamed of your values. You should feel ashamed of your group think. You should feel ashamed about your lack of civil engagement. You should feel ashamed of the inequality. You should feel ashamed of the wasted budget, of the corruption, of the grift and greed.
We have some of the most educated people in the world living in the Bethesda area. We have some of the wealthiest, most productive companies in human history. We have beautiful homes, views, nature, weather. This should be a beacon of liberalism. It should be a city on a hill.
You should be asking yourself how things went so wrong. You should be asking yourself how Bethesda's streets are starting to look like a scene out of a dystopian movie.
Mark Twain said: "To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals".... and that's exactly what's happening here.
Brunch is getting in the way of your compassion. You thought putting a BLM sign in the yard was all that was needed. That's where your compassion ends: At your property line, you phony.
@1:29 PM: If anyone's adverse to the homeless population, it's people like you. You've failed them. The woke leftists you've voted for and who run everything as a one-party regime in MoCo have failed them. Considering that people of your persuasion claim to have a monopoly on compassion, this isn't it. You're fine with them being on the street as long as the power of the leftist MoCo regime is maintained. Their plight represents your failures. Shame on you.
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