Posted on 02/05/2013 8:06:40 AM PST by TADSLOS
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Violent, thieving mobs have been making headlines across the country for the past few years, and now they have hit New York City.
And Maurice Dubois reported in this CBS 2 investigation, the teen mobs have left neighborhoods worried as businesses take matters into their own hands.
Judson Bennett, 78, recently ran into a violent group of teens – often described with the once-benign term “flash mob” – as he made his daily trip to buy a newspaper at his favorite news team.
“I’m approaching the newsstand, and then suddenly there is a tremendous force behind me,” Bennett said.
Bennett ended up with a broken arm.
“I was taken completely by surprise,” he said.
In New York and across the country, the mobs of kids – 20, 30, 40 or more — appear out of nowhere and suddenly charge a newsstand or convenience store.
They ransack, steal and wreak havoc with no consideration for customers, such as Bennett, who get in their way.
“They assemble, they do whatever it is that they’re going to do, and then they disassemble in a matter of minutes,” said Jon Shane, assistant professor of criminal justice at John Jay College. “By the time somebody recognizes what is happening or is injured, if the police are able to respond, it’s slow.”
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NY city, like Chicago and Detroit are obelisks to Liberalism!
Yeah, if only...
Obviously since the yuts can’t be controlled it is time to close all convenience stores and news stands.
Sounds like an argument for a very large magazine. Contrary to the media, those are not "assault" weapons but DEFENSE weapons, against mobs and gangs and robber bands that infest our cities.
These flash mobs are creating conservatives out of NYC liberals and turning gun control supporters into supporters of CCW.
I notice that the concern is that “...businesses take matters into their own hands...”
Given that it’s a liberal town where felons rule (that includes the politicians....especially the politicians), the worry is quite naturally that citizens would protect themselves.
Liberalism - revolt against it now, or suffer the inevitable consequences.
City government requires a minimum threshold level of crime to justify its existence, hence the practice of indirectly encouraging and/or ignoring crime.
Mayors and police chiefs know that crime-plagued citizens demand "solutions", e.g. bigger government in the form of more police and social services.
Ok, shooting might be a possible response but what are others. IT is the element of surprise there that makes it work for them.
“WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE......?
That’s going to prove pretty hard to do with a Barney Fife gun and only a handfull of cartridges.
I miss Bernie Goetz.
In Chicago the gangs and community organizers put aside their differences to send “youths” into the business and yuppie districts to flash mob, but of course the establishment ignored this and prattled on about the usual liberal nothingness.
Sorry, you can't say that.
Now some FReeper will be Posting a Vanity Opus accusing you and the rest of us of being Racists that they no longer care to associate with.
Next thing you know, by coincidence of course, their FR Handle will turn up on DU or Kos.
BTW - When I see the term “Obama’s folks”, I think COMMIES.
George Zimmerman is still alive. Let them call you names or even prosecute you. It is still better than the alternative.
Interesting.
This is a glimpse of America’s future.
The fraud known as “anti-racism” is nothing more than anti-white bigotry and racism.
Clockwork Orange...coming to a city near you.
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