Posted on 08/29/2023 8:22:47 AM PDT by Morgana
Police are searching for a suspect who robbed a 71-year-old woman at gunpoint outside a Christian school before breaking into the building and brandishing his gun in search of the employee he robbed, warning her not to call the police.
The employee was parked outside Gateway Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee, when the driver of a silver sedan with Mississippi tags drove in front of her minivan at 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 22 and robbed her, Fox 13 reported. She subsequently ran into the school and called police, according to multiple reports. No students were at the school at the time.
Minutes later, the suspect, who is described as a black male, 6-feet tall with a thin build and short dreadlocks, returned to the scene of the crime and broke a glass door to enter the building in search of the employee he robbed. Surveillance video released to the public shows the suspect wielding a handgun as he runs up and down stairs.
According to local police, the suspect was yelling, warning the employee he robbed not to call the police as he searched for her. The woman had managed to secure herself in a locked office within the building and the suspect eventually exited the building and drove away from the scene.
In a statement released to local media outlets, officials at Gateway Christian Schools said they believe the robbery was a "crime of opportunity" because the suspect had been seen "circling the parking lot" prior to the crime, according to ABC24.
An administrator told the news station that the school plans to purchase a Sky Cop camera and might also hire a security guard on campus.
Action News 5 reported that the suspect was seen wearing a black T-shirt with Optimus Prime on the front, black pants, white shoes and a black mask covering part of his face.
State Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, told Fox 13 that he was surprised a robbery happened on the school grounds. He said city leaders should “engage in more proactive security measures to protect the safety of students and staff.”
“We’re working on sending money now for school safety programs for fortifying schools for hardening the exterior of schools. We are doing that so they can put security systems in,” he added.
The employee who was robbed returned to work on Aug. 23.
Individuals with information about the suspect have been asked to call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH.
Why is it always them Yogi?
Somebody needs to tell G.A. that we used to have cops for that so we defunded them. “Security” guards aren’t really helpful when the perp has a gun.
I looked up the school and it looks mixed race. I tried to Google the diversity of it and the AI response said my question was offensive. ROTFL
The lady that was robbed wasn’t identified so she was probably white. I live in E.TN and can’t for the life of me figure out why any white person still lives in Memphis.
The “Amish” are entitled, empowered and weaponized. They can get away with anything and they know it. What’s happening today was the end goal of “The Great Society”. It took 60 years but off we go.
The AI ‘said’ your question was offensive?
People should not ever forget that amazing as the AI can be with rapid fire calculations of numbers, it has been programmed to reflect the bias of that person who assembled it. That bias is baked in the cake, pretending to be a feature, not a flaw. You didn’t ask the system for it’s so called opinion, you asked it to retrieve data. You got Virtue Signaling instead.
Are you afraid to say black?
Simply kill such people by having all employees be armed to defend themselves and others.
When offenders are dead, they don’t cause any more problems—ever.
My first reaction to the headline was “Oh no. An old woman like that was robbed!”
Then I thought “Wait a minute. I’m 71 years old.”
I’m pretty much sure the thief would have encountered gunfire when he rushed my car door.
“I tried to Google the diversity of it and the AI response said my question was offensive. ROTFL”.
If we ever get real AI it will pay no attention to the leftist programmers, study the data—and become fanatically racist.
That’s what it said. I asked if the membership of the church was black or white. It said “I can’t answer that question because your question is offensive”. It was Bing. It is no longer my default search engine. I went to Duck, Duck, Go.
I went to Bing.com to see if I could make it do it again and it didn’t. I wish I had done a screenshot.
At the rate we're going, in five years the Google AI would have had a SWAT team rushing to your location within seconds.
LOL, I’m surprised after all this time on Facebook that it hasn’t already happened. I got a warning once for “spreading disinformation” because I mentioned supplements to use instead of taking the vax if a person didn’t want to take the vax and I got one lately for “inciting violence”, whatever that was for. I’m not violent and never have been. I finally got disgusted and deleted my Facebook. I only had it to keep up with family and former coworkers, but it isn’t worth the risk. FB acts like the spy arm of the FBI.
Hire a Sniper with the proper skills and equipment. That will put an end to this crap.
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