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To: jazusamo; TexasCajun; sickoflibs; norton; Liz; Scoutmaster; familyop; albionin; AdmSmith; ...

Police are giving up around the country. Here some members of the MSM get beat up - police admit to being helpless... Follow the link for more:

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http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton

A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see “simple assault” and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees. Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?

More questions loomed.

Forster and Rostami wondered if the officer who answered their call treated all crime victims the same way. When Rostami, who admits she was hysterical, tried to describe what had happened, she says the officer told her to shut up and get in the car. Both said the officer did not record any names of witnesses who stopped to help. Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were “probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?”

The officer pointed to public housing in the area and said large groups of teenagers look for trouble on the weekends. “It’s what they do,” he told Forster.

Could that be true? Could violent mobs of teens be so commonplace in Norfolk that police and victims have no recourse?


48 posted on 05/02/2012 3:35:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Had a Christian minister yelled at a bunch of gay students - the New York Times would have covered i)
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To: GOPJ
Don't get out of your vehicle in a mob attack, use the gas peddle and hope that you are driving something substantial and not an econobox.
49 posted on 05/02/2012 3:41:34 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: GOPJ
Police are giving up around the country.

I'm afraid you're right. In some parts of the country thugs, teenage gangs and mob violence has become commonplace. When police try to stop it and a criminal is killed or badly hurt the leftists blame police, Portland, Oregon is a good example. Seattle is another example, Holder and his DOJ just investigated their department for excessive use of force.

I believe the day will come when the average citizen will get fed up with this and take action, hopefully it won't come to that though. It should be stopped by those whose job it is to stop it and that includes elected city, county and state reps as well as police.

56 posted on 05/02/2012 10:15:07 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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