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Thieves Target Elderly People Across City in Latest Round of Robberies
NBCNews ^ | Sep 15, 2016

Posted on 09/15/2016 8:53:29 AM PDT by detective

Thieves snatched a purse from an 84-year-old woman in the Bronx on Wednesday — the latest in what has been a series of unrelated attacks, some of them violent, on older and elderly people across the city.

The two hooded men grabbed the purse from the woman as she sat on a bench at a bus stop at 1635 East 174th Street in Bronx River just before 6 a.m.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: criminals; elderly

1 posted on 09/15/2016 8:53:29 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Eric Holder essentially told them this type of behavior is okay.


2 posted on 09/15/2016 8:55:57 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: detective

The elderly are soft targets.


3 posted on 09/15/2016 8:55:59 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: detective

NYC returns to the 1970s...

Maybe a new “Welcome Back Kotter” will be a hit on TV (with, illegals, LGBTs and muslims in the classroom)

Welcome back...


4 posted on 09/15/2016 8:58:14 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: detective

What’s life like in the South Bronx now?

I imagine its improved somewhat from the Ed Koch / Fort Apache days?


5 posted on 09/15/2016 8:59:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: fwdude

Try here, die here.


6 posted on 09/15/2016 9:09:25 AM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: detective

>Thieves snatched a purse from an 84-year-old woman in the Bronx on Wednesday

It the latest democrat party jobs program.


7 posted on 09/15/2016 9:10:03 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Noumenon

I am so thankful that we retired a few years back and left the feral-ridden urban lifestyle that requires constant looking over your shoulder to avoid those subhuman wretches.


8 posted on 09/15/2016 9:11:25 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: hal ogen

So, hal ogen, you must be an old salt.


9 posted on 09/15/2016 9:15:26 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (ALT-Right v. (D)ELETE-Left)
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To: hal ogen

Very wise move. Did that years ago with no regrets.


10 posted on 09/15/2016 9:17:20 AM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: detective

I predict a popular remake of Charles Bronson “Death Wish” style movies.


11 posted on 09/15/2016 9:52:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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NYC voted overwhelmingly for 0 and is about 85% democrat therefore the odds are the elderly are gun hating freedom hating democrats so let them reap what they sowed


12 posted on 09/15/2016 10:42:15 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: bgill
The elderly are soft targets.

Not in states with concealed carry, but in NY, CT, MA, RI, MD etc. they sure are.

13 posted on 09/15/2016 10:44:27 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

CT is a “shall issue” state.


14 posted on 09/15/2016 10:56:03 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: Ol' Sox

OK swap NJ for CT


15 posted on 09/15/2016 11:25:24 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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