Posted on 04/24/2017 11:56:33 AM PDT by Noumenon
A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries, witnesses told the transit agency. The incident — the first of its kind in recent memory — occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Coliseum Station. According to a police summary, witnesses said 50 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders. The juveniles “committed multiple strong-arm robberies of bags and cell phones,” said the summary. “At least two victims suffered head/facial injuries requiring medical attention.” Police did not say if any of the suspects were armed, or describe exactly how the passengers were wounded. The attack was quick, police reported, and the teenagers were able to retreat from the station and vanish into the surrounding East Oakland neighborhood before BART officers could respond. The train that was hit was held for about 15 minutes as authorities investigated the crime and tended to the injured. BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said Monday morning she wanted to get more information from police before commenting in detail. But she said BART was “working with Oakland police, Oakland public schools, and the Oakland Housing Authority to identify the suspects based on surveillance images.”
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As usual, no consequences attend to this act of savages. "Juveniles," indeed.
Juveniles from Oakland
Got it.
These kind of things only happen in communist states that disarm their populace for the convenience and safety of the criminals.
Wasn’t this idea from a movie based in New York some decades back?
Train Spotting......................
No physical descriptions of the perps ... and no video posted.
I think it’s strange that we are allowed to call them teens but aren’t allowed to use other more detailed descriptions of the perpetrators.
We can describe their ages but not other chacteristics.
“Teens” is code.
Sounds like a job for Bernie Goetz.
Black Bart rides again.
Dublin-bound train? Black Irish, perhaps?
Aren’t they just expressing legitimate resistance?
Where’s Charles Bronson when you need him...
Robbers were described as looking a lot like.....
Both murderers, and murder victims in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.
And like kneeling quarterbacks. And recent presidents.
Dysfunctional demographic, not improving.
Is that film at all worth watching?
#BlackSavagesLivesMatter
Not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lh1hbj8AHE
One of my favorite movies, Adventures in Babysitting.
The train scene.
Plus Elizabeth Shue was SO HOT.
Foreign film..................
"The agency........ is in the midst of installing surveillance cameras in train cars after The Chronicle reported that most of the existing cameras were decoys."
There should have been 200 cops with guns drawn surrounding them as they exited.
Yet another reason in a long list of why I don’t live in Kalifornica.
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