Posted on 08/02/2012 9:20:47 AM PDT by kevcol
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When store employees in the red shirts realize what’s happening, they block the doors to stop the young thieves from leaving.
But the kids physically struggle to get out and even appear to hit the store manager who then swings back. After the brief altercation, many kids dash out the door.
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After reviewing the surveillance video, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office opted not to pursue criminal charges in the case saying not every conflict warrants them.
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A bill to toughen the punishments for this kind of crime failed to pass in Maryland’s last legislative session. Del. Jeff Waldstreicher of Montgomery County says he plans to reintroduce the bill again in the next session.
Police say some of the kids seen in the surveillance video at the Light Street 7-Eleven were students in school uniforms from Merganthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Northeast Baltimore.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...
...and the MD General Assembly does not feel that tougher punishments to address this growing criminal activity is warrented?
At least they find the time to raise taxes high enough to create an exodus of business owners and citizens to neighboring Virginia, while the mayor of B'more has set a goal to recruit 10,000 illegal alien families to the city.
They need to arrest anyone in groups of 4 or more.
Nothing extraordinary here, unfortunately.
Gee, wonder what’s going on?! It’s a liberal paradice in Maryland! A frien of mine was in Eastport (near Annapolis) an area that’s considered absolute commie utopia. He has a “1/2013, End of an Error) sticker on his car. Two tires slashed by the tolerant, diverse people of MD.
They deserve flash mobs. They should be thrilled! This is what they wanted. If someone doesn’t have what they want...take it!
Baltimore, MD-The Toilet that gave “Birth” to “Nasty” Nancy Perosi(D’Alesandro).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
The Apple didn’t fall FAR from THIS tree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro,_Jr.
... for your consideration.
It is just the Kenyan’s Kids doing what they know is right- redistributing income.
DE may be tax free but MD is plain ol FREE FREE!
I wonder how long it will take before the "tolerance" of local business wears thin
Arm and train the clerks. If the police will not punish then the staff must defend or the business will not be able to continue.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."This is almost word-for-word what is coming from the mouths of the OWS crowd, and you would find few among them who would disagree with it. In fact, you would find few among our intelligentsia, our artists, our journalists, even our preachers and pastors who would find fault with any of it. But it’s old news, as the quote comes from a speech made in May 1, 1927 by one of the true nemeses and monsters of the last century, one Adolf Hitler.
Ah, the pedigree of ideas...
Do RICO laws apply? Sounds like organized crime to me!
"Tougher punishments" are only useful to The Police State for further subjugating law-abiding peasants.
The Baltimore DA could find dozens of charges to file against these yutes in order to get them to plead.
There are already laws against robbery.
Sooner or later Holder’s people are going to “flash rob” a store where the owner is going to unload a shotgun in their faces. It might spark a SHTF moment in the inner cities of this country.
Getcher FREE obamaphones here!
Can’t start a Flash Mob or Flash Snatch without ‘em!
Nothing new, in the ultra leftist SF Bay Area crime statistics have been falling because progressive mayors have ordered police chiefs to have officers lower the level of of the seriousness of the crime on police reports, on pain of firing. Police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the mayor, and will pass the firing on down the line by performance reports before they go.
Thus the progressive mayors and DA's can fulfill their political promise of lowering the crime rate without actually arresting or prosecuting any of their voting block. It's the California criminal protection plan, and it works fine.
Most upsetting to MoCo officials is the loss of tax revenue from the plastic bags, no doubt.
Only one way retail business will survive in those conditions: place all merchandise in secure inventory. No floor displays or samples. You want something? Point to the picture of what you want. Pay for it. Move on.
Likely,... I know in California the retailer must pay the sales tax on stolen merchandise, CA government NEVER loses out, suspect same in MD.
Bump
That's raaaacist!!!
Well they’re Amish after all. You can’t just arrest them. :)
Just making sure no child is left behind...
A small can of pepper spray would go a long ways in this type of situation.
“After reviewing the surveillance video, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office opted not to pursue criminal charges in the case saying not every conflict warrants them.”
I think I see half the problem here. The other half, family instilled values, is beyond any cure in this generation and likely the generation to come.
The writer at the link below disagrees. I always expect the worst from CA government & am rarely disappointed. But in this case, have you got anything that can verify what you said?
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/pay-sales-tax-lost-stolen-inventory-24631.html
Flash mobs have become the new form of rioting — call it “cold rioting” as distinguished from “hot rioting” (a la Rodney King).
Considering from whom this behavior emanates, it’s not unusual. What’s interesting is that it took them so long to think of it — guess we have the internet and social networking to thank for that. Apparently this is a dark side of social networking that no one could have foreseen.
As I said above, not-unexpected behavior. But what IS dismaying is the response of those who are charged to uphold the law:
“After reviewing the surveillance video, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office opted not to pursue criminal charges in the case saying not every conflict warrants them.”
What they are REALLY saying is that if you’re not of the flashmobbin’ persuasion, you have but two options as a victim:
- take it, or...
- leave.
Perhaps there is the “third option” of fighting back or even vigilantism, but those same folks in the district attorney’s office who would do nothing to prosecute the vermin in these escapades would throw every ounce of the law against anyone who dared fight back.
I sense that many Euro-Americans are just goin’ to be “leavin’ it behind”.
Not many flash mobs goin’ on where there are no concentrations of “flashmobbin’ Amish”...
Do RICO laws apply? Sounds like organized crime to me!
Only if they're meeting for prayer at somebody's house.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Shoot & kill the rioters and looters; it’ll stop real fast.
So would an autoloader 12ga w/ 00 buck or slugs.
Tsk, Tsk... dear kevcol...
Those are just Missionaries from the Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Theology Church?
Logical consequence of years of liberal policies.
Sorry, no exceptions without proper ID...
The trick used is in enforcement, the state compares sales to received merchandise minus inventory, and simply claims the merchant owes $X in taxes on unreported cash sales, and bills the merchant accordingly. They will collect unless the merchant appears at audit with their tax lawyer and has complete records proving the theft took place.
At best, the merchant pays whopping legal fees. With any discrepancy in records, he pays the tax, penalties, fines and interest as well.
Tell me you didn't expect the DemoRat California State government to be honest, ethical or fair,.... please!
“A small can of pepper spray would go a long ways in this type of situation.”
With bright yellow idelible dye to aid police.
Lock them in from an enclosed, protected space where the staff can gather until the cops come and round them up.
Also there should be SERIOUS time for racial intimidation and rioting. It is a worse crime than singleton theft.
The possibility of death, to the average person, is deterrent. Not to most of these kids.
Beside that they will, in all probability, have guns of their own and start blazing away. If they "lose" round one with you, they will regroup and hit you again, this time with more gusto.
I agree with your statement but for these situations (flash mobs) I don't think it practical.
“After reviewing the surveillance video, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office opted not to pursue criminal charges in the case saying not every conflict warrants them.”
And there you go.
That’s shows how weak our “justice” system is. They don’t even try to hunt them down as deserved.
This is basically the same cop-out as “we can’t track down and deport 14 million undocumented workers!”
What a screwy bastardly bunch we’ve become.
Cowardly response.
I can’t explain courage of conviction to you.
You have it or you don’t.
You don’t.
So that's why Maryland is nicknamed the "Free State"
Sure, they can only loot it once if they burn it down.
Recent videos of two and five armed bros invading an internet cafe and a hock shop. Clerk whips out handgun and fires back. In neither incident was one of the miscreants killed. In neither incident did they fire back. In both they stumbled all over each other trying to get out the door. They are doing these things for some easy money or for some fun with a little loot thrown in. They are not interested in dying for these things .Arguably, in both cases had they hoods shot back they could have killed the defenders handily but they panicked instead. They are not ideological revolutionaries or bent on some sort of tribal revenge that would render their own lives worth the accomplishment of their missions.
Maybe they should quit giving them cellphones.
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