Blue State Blues: DC Diner Shuts Down Over Crime Surge
15th February 2024
in the district, the latest to shut down amid a surge in violence that has affected residents’ safety.
“D.C. is getting a bad rap right now,” Doron Petersan, who owns the popular vegan spot Sticky Fingers Diner, told Fox 5. “There’s crime, for sure, and it makes it extremely difficult to operate.”
Petersan added that she herself was the victim of a carjacking while making deliveries for her business, which specializes in vegan sweets. She lambasted the district’s government for not doing more to stop crime.
The first obligation of any government is to keep people safe. If it’s not doing that, it’s a failure. We are seeing that Democrats literally cannot be trusted to run a government competently.