Suspect in Mattapan murders has lengthy criminal record
Recently, Washington was featured on a Boston police most wanted show for assaulting his girlfriend. Washington had previously been sentenced to 6 months in jail for assaulting the same woman. In that case, a police report states he threw her down from over his head, then dragged her 100 yards along the ground. He was also charged with assaulting another woman last December.
His record dates back to the nineties, with time served for trafficking cocaine, resisting arrest, assault and battery and larceny. He forged these checks from the city of Boston and cashed them. Washington also has a long list of probation violations, including failing to complete a program for batterers and failing to attend drug testing. A long history that ended with his arrest on Friday in connection with the shooting of five people.
That last tag-line rings hollow to me. “A Long History that ENDED”???? Who says? You see people can talk about Guns, and video games, and music, and poverty, and family values, and religion all they want. But let’s face it while we talk about stuff like this Kimani Washington should not have been in public without a chaperon.
Now he hasn’t been charged with the murders and I’m not going to claim that either….but does it matter? He’s a violent woman beater (sounds like the described case above attempted murder should have been at least considered) a thief, a fraud artist, and a drug dealer.
Now there’s talk that he might be a murderer….who could have guessed??? Answer: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE GUESSED!
It doesn’t matter what the laws are nor the climate of society is, when monsters like this roam the streets everybody who crosses their paths is in danger.
Oh and Mr. Washington is currently in custody for a high-profile murder case…how many people EXACTLY like Mr. Washington are out there that the media isn’t reporting on?
Be careful out there, the world is a dangerous place, and the people who we entrust with our safety aren’t doing their jobs.
Wonder if he would have served the maximum time for each crime, if he would have been out to commit the last ones.
Probably not. Nope, he was ‘rehabilitated’ by the system in no time at all and allowed out.
I also wonder if the woman that he battered were able to secure the necessary permits and licenses to put themselves on an equal footing with this dangerously violent thug — probably not.
I’d say “nope”. Remember it doesn’t say the proximity of the crimes either. I DO know at the time of his arrest he was one parole for one of his latest woman-beating convictions. Knowing what I read in the Boston Papers I wouldn’t be surprised if EACH of his convictions happened BEFORE the probationary period for his previous one(s) had expired.
In a Just world he’d have been in for life (or maybe got some respect for our laws….something I honestly don’t blame him for NOT having at this point).
Weer’d,
I’ll disagree. I do blame him for not having respect for our legal system.
Just because someone can and does take advantage of the system doesn’t mean they should or they should hold it in disrespect.
I blame him and his parents for that failure. Even if the legal system was completely incompetent (and it’s getting dangerously close), a person should have a moral structure that makes the legal system unneeded.
Given that failure, he’s proven — time and time again — that he needs outside control since this self control is lacking.
Throw him in jail and keep him there