D.C. Cop Raises Concerns About Neighbors
posted 5:47 pm Wed October 24, 2007 - Washington
A D.C. police officer says she feels the criminal justice system has failed to protect her from threatening neighbors.
"Is my life worth so little," Seventh District Officer Tamika Hampton wrote in a letter to several public officials, including Mayor Adrian Fenty, after an incident last December where a dozen men surrounded her yelling obscenities and threatening to blow her head off. Twenty-four-year-old Hampton said she went to visit a friend at an apartment building near her Southeast home when the group surrounded her in the lobby.
"I thought I was going to be dead," Hampton said. "I thought my son was going to end up motherless."
Hampton was able to identify two of the men involved, DeMarrio Davis and his cousin Robert Bartley. They were arrested and convicted but were released within days of the trials on time served.
The single mother says she no longer keeps her son at home out of fear and she doesn't even take out the trash or get the mail without her service weapon in hand.
Yet those neighbor's grandmother says her grandsons are not a threat.
"They want to be left alone and she's got something personal against them." Robert Bartley said.
Hampton believes if what happened to her had happened to the daughters or wives of politicians the suspects would have been charged with felonies instead of misdemeanors.
The D.C. Examiner first reported Hampton's story.
Hampton was able to identify two of the men involved, DeMarrio Davis and his cousin Robert Bartley. They were arrested and convicted but were released within days of the trials on time served.
The single mother says she no longer keeps her son at home out of fear and she doesn't even take out the trash or get the mail without her service weapon in hand.Hampton believes if what happened to her had happened to the daughters or wives of politicians the suspects would have been charged with felonies instead of misdemeanors.
The D.C. Examiner first reported Hampton's story.
Latest Comment on D.C. Cop Raises Concerns About Neighbors
Shovelhead
10:36 pm on 10/27/07
At least she has the means for self-defense.....what about her neighbors?....of course we ALL know the DC thugs and gang-bangers haven't had guns since they were outlawed in 1976, right?
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