When it Rains It Pours...BLOOD: In Memory of Erica Peters,Erik Harper and Dakota Peters

This has been a bloody week on this blog and I generally try to limit crime stories because  we go through stretches where this place looks like a crime blotter and quite frankly that can get downright discouraging, but RevMamaAfrika put this in the comments and I decided to bump it up to its own post:

Greeting to all, when you get a moment, go the the Washington Post, to a search, "Erica Peters."  She and her two sons were stabbed to death by her boyfriend.  The Homegoing Service was today.  They had been together for three years, had a two year old daughter and according to family members, there had been a history of violence for most of those three years.  She was also Deaf.

This is the Lenten season; the teacher of the youngest son tearfully shared how he gave a book report on the Friday before he was murdered. His book report was not on sports, video games or even Pres. Obama, it was on the Book of Genesis.   I'm a Domestic Violence Advocate here in this city; clearly we have much more work to do.    :( WAOD Reader RevMamaAfrika

You can read the full police report of what happened in that apartment from the DC Superior Court.

Comments

[ITSALLSAD]

I have learned three very important things from this blog:

1) a black woman/girl is the most unprotected soul on earth
2) If she finds herself in an abusive relationship and stays, she will most certainly die
3)If she is in an abusive relationship and attempts to get out, the likelihood that she will be killed is very high

Regardless of whether or not subsequent commentators agree with me, my personal conclusions are these:

1) As a young single woman (27), I will do my very best to be a better judge of character and look for signs of destructive behavior
2) I agree to run like hell at the first sign of outburst, change my address and phone number, while filing a police report regardless of whether or not actual physical violence occurred
3) Continue diversifying my dating pool and totally ignore the nasty "why you wit dat white, asian, arab cat" comments from the brothers

I am well aware that some may take issue with my sentiments and that all races have murderers, rapists, etc. However, I simply have not come to have the same fear and distrust of other love interests as I have of black men. My apologies to anyone who I offend, but I have been faithfully reading this blog for a year and it has really brought some issues to light that have had a profound effect on how I see myself, my male counterparts, and others. Initially, I did not disqualify black men totally, but it has repeatedly been my experience, that my brown skin is better appreciated elsewhere. Quite frankly, I grew sick of having to analyze a brother's intentions, insecurities...I just want to date...period: and my life has been so much easier since my divorce from the madness of damaged interpersonal relationships between black men and women. I'm not selling anyone here anything...just relaying 1 experience. I had all that I could take a while ago concerning this total disregard of black female life. No more.

[miriam]

"W-1 further indicated that if the male victims learned that they were going to be left alone with
the defendant they would call a relative to come pick them up because they were afraid to be left
alone with the defendant." http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/2009/0403/DCSuperiorCourt.pdf

I have no words. They were that scared and still were left alone.

Men like these menace need to be taken down. Are our arms too heavy to help? Our legs too heavy to go a new way?

These threats need to be neutalized.

I have a sick question. If black on black crimes go mostly unreported and it seems the world (msm and police dept) doesn't care to seek them out and serve justice (unless they cross the color line or whatever --BTW: its worthy to analyse why one crime is taken care of and another ignored), why isn't there a black squad out to neutralize the menace? Fear of being arrested?

If these things are not reported by MSM and justice not served (if the criminal is not onthe scene), why not use that to our advantage? I'm not advocating anything, just curious.

[gem2001]

ISALLSAD I hope that's not all you learned from this blog.

[ITSALLSAD]

No ma'am. Not by any means...those thoughts are only what immediately came to mind just this evening. I could never even begin to summarize everything I've learned from this blog.

[Faith]

We can learn to spot the same patterns that show themselves over and over...and over. We can decide to make different choices. We can learn to take actions even as we read about things that are upsetting (to say the least). We can find a community of individuals who can come together over addressing some of the ills of society. Hopefully someone who may have made choices that would cause them harm will now rethink.

[xd]

@miriam: "I have a sick question. If black on black crimes go mostly unreported and it seems the world (msm and police dept) doesn’t care to seek them out and serve justice (unless they cross the color line or whatever –BTW: its worthy to analyse why one crime is taken care of and another ignored), why isn’t there a black squad out to neutralize the menace? Fear of being arrested?"

Some whites find it perfectly acceptable to see the black community consume itself in a never-ending spiral of violence, self-hatred and self-destruction until there are so few blacks left that they no longer matter in the grand scheme of things. I see the same patterns in the Native American community. How many Native Americans are around lately? How many have simply melted into the white community?

How many Native Americans do you think you'll see within the next century?

We're headed down this road of self-elimination, and the last stop is the realization that we have made ourselves an endangered species and that we are on the brink of becoming statistically extinct. Now that's some heavy stuff you just heard.

And as far as some whites are concerned, that's just fine. Except when blacks "cross the line" and consume other "good whites"* with them.

Your black squad has figured out their brothers don't want to listen (and are more than willing to hurt/kill the black squad if necessary), so they won't bother. Instead, most have divested themselves from the black community. Remember the Native Americans who did the same and ended up melting into white society. Except the process will be slower. And it'll leave the bottom of the barrel to consume themselves and any remaining innocents.

*It seems that "good whites" could care less when their poorer, less cultured brethren get eaten up in the chaos.

[Zoopath]

I feel bad for the mothers in these cases but I'm also angry at them for not protecting their children from violent men be they lovers or relatives. Those poor kids knew they were in danger.
I'm curious as to what would have happened if this guy had then pulled a Mixon and killed a few of the cops that responded to the call? Since this guy killed 2 black male children and less importantly his girlfriend (I say less important because that's the way BW seem to be valued) would there be marches to support him? I guess I wonder what the tipping point of depravity is for some people to hold BM accountable for the violence they perpetrate on their own people. Raping children obviously isn't enough for some folks so I wonder what is.

[RevMamaAfrika]

The only way to make this stop is for all of us to accept responsibility. By that I mean, we need to educate and organize ourselves, but we also need our brothers to demand other brothers stop this violence against women and children and the community in general.

Specifically we need courageous men to join organizations like Men Stopping Violence, Atlanta or Men Can Stop Rape, Washington, DC, etc. These organizations know what men's responsibilities are; MCSR has what they call Men of Strength Clubs in local middle schools and high schools, the teach men and boys that masculinity should not be about violence and control over women,children or over other men.

Lastly, if you go to the website of the Washington City Paper, they have details on the suspect's background, i.e., websites, at-home Internet business sites, etc. :(