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Teenage girl says Clairton police beat her after curfew violation
WTAE ^ | 07/17/2014 | Bob Hazen

Posted on 07/17/2014 10:05:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd
Merceedez Wright admits she and her friends were out a few minutes after the city's 10 p.m. curfew, and that she both ran from officers and resisted them after being tackled,

"I didn't think cops would do that to me because I'm a girl.

She's an idiot. No need for me to read any further.

41 posted on 07/17/2014 11:18:27 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Squawk 8888

Clairton is a part of Pennsyltucky where civilization ended years ago. I used to have a couple of employees who lived there. They used to call home before leaving and tell their spouses to put out the APB if they weren’t home in 20 minutes.

Lots of youth crime and too broke to hire cops of decent quality.


42 posted on 07/17/2014 11:28:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL. My wife used to live in Fontana CA, once home of the Hells Angels, and still many cars parked on the lawns in the older parts of town.

They called it Fontucky.


43 posted on 07/17/2014 11:33:26 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bring back Charm Schools. In my day girls could not only talk their way out of a curfew violation, but they could get a free ride home in the patrol car.


44 posted on 07/17/2014 11:35:26 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Mears

100% when it mattered, 98% othe3rwise / grin


45 posted on 07/17/2014 11:45:03 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If she told me she had done nothing to warrant a beating, then yep, I would exact retribution.

She was always pretty careful to avoid being in situations that were at all questionable. By and large, even at 16 she had better judgment that a lot of these cops now days.


46 posted on 07/17/2014 11:52:09 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Commentors seem to be missing this part of the story: “when they were stopped by officers for being out after curfew. When they tried to go back to pick up a bag and a phone they left behind, they claim the officers tried to detain them.”

IOW, the group was initially given a warning. Instead of going home, they returned to the hangout, were caught defying the warning, and at least Merceedez tried to run.

Curfews in general are inimical to a free society. But rampant crime is too. I have to wonder if this town instituted a youth curfew to protect citizens from exactly this girl’s demographic.


47 posted on 07/17/2014 12:06:35 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Kirkwood
Bring back Charm Schools. In my day girls could not only talk their way out of a curfew violation, but they could get a free ride home in the patrol car.

Would you trust today's cops around your teenage daughter? My answer would be 'No' 'Hell, no!'

48 posted on 07/17/2014 12:12:50 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Chewbarkah

Good catch. I posted this thread, and even I missed that.

IMHO, yes we live in a Police State where curfews and thug cops are common. But we also live in a society with people with misspelled names that had no respect for authority even when it was common and ordinary to show said respect.

And they sure as hell have no respect now.


49 posted on 07/17/2014 12:13:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Glennb51
Why are the posts always so diametrically opposed on FR?

Cause some people can't decide whether they hate black people or cops more.

50 posted on 07/17/2014 12:20:47 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

lolol at that.

Was looking at the comments on that thread about the Crips being publically out to kill Jersey City cops.

Talk about your conflicts!


51 posted on 07/17/2014 12:33:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cops think they are immune. They are not. If they had done this to my daughter it would be the second coming of Buford Pusser.


52 posted on 07/17/2014 12:34:04 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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So tell us all, what would you be doing if she were your daughter?

I'd be mad at her for getting into this mess.

53 posted on 07/17/2014 12:51:34 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Chewbarkah
I have to wonder if this town instituted a youth curfew to protect citizens from exactly this girl’s demographic.

Bingo.

54 posted on 07/17/2014 12:55:20 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: driftdiver

“Yelling at her for being stupid and telling her she’s lucky they didnt shoot her.”

Oh my! so I take it you are a JBT supporter? You and I are way far apart here!


55 posted on 07/17/2014 1:29:25 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: morphing libertarian
I know someone who worked on the movie The Deer Hunter when it filmed here in 1977. The story is set in Clairton, PA. The director drove to a hill overlooking Clairton, took one look down and said, "That's not how Clairton is supposed to look!"

The film was shot just over the border in Mingo Junction, Ohio instead.


56 posted on 07/17/2014 1:41:35 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: vette6387

Yelling at my kid for being stupid is being a JBT supporter?


57 posted on 07/17/2014 1:50:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Too late in my life I found out they paid people to find sites for movies. A job I think I would have liked.


58 posted on 07/17/2014 1:57:18 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: driftdiver; Alaska Wolf; TexasFreeper2009; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; ...
Yelling at my kid for being stupid is being a JBT supporter?

I guess we both are, then...

JBT Ping list


59 posted on 07/17/2014 6:56:40 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: null and void

She’s lucky she didnt get shot.


60 posted on 07/17/2014 6:59:34 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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