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| Tower crane at self-storage construction site visible behind Mcdonald's on River Road |
The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition has scheduled a protest for Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM next to 5214 River Road in Bethesda. BACC leaders blame the developer of a self-storage project adjacent to the Moses African Cemetery for flooding a large area of the burial ground since January. They say a drainage pipe has been positioned to direct floodwater from the self-storage excavation site onto the graveyard, which was first desecrated during construction of the Westwood Tower apartments in the late 1960s. Montgomery County police would not allow BACC to file a police report about the flooding, they reported in a statement. They have also accused Maryland Congressman David Trone (D), who made a racial slur during a congressional hearing Thursday, of previously declaring "Who cares about that little cemetery?" when approached by BACC President Marcia Coleman Adebayo to seek his assistance.
I hope BACC excoriates Trone for his statement and position. God, I love to see libs imploding.
ReplyDelete"Montgomery County police would not allow BACC to file a police report about the flooding, they reported in a statement."
ReplyDeleteThe correct place to file is with MCDPS (permitting) not the police. No crime is being committed here. At most, it's a civil matter.
Second, BACC does not own the property nor occupy it as a tenant, so they have no standing to file a compliant. If I'm driving down the street and see water runoff from one private property to another private property, that's for those property owners to work out (perhaps via filing a complaint with DPS), not for me.
If BACC really cared about this alleged cemetery property, why don't they offer to buy it?
Why is BACC approaching Trone? This is not a federal issue.
ReplyDeleteBecause they know Trone has no backbone and will capitulate.
DeleteWhine enough you'll ger action, nothing depends on merit anymore.
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