Posted on 04/24/2017 11:56:33 AM PDT by Noumenon
A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries, witnesses told the transit agency. The incident — the first of its kind in recent memory — occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Coliseum Station. According to a police summary, witnesses said 50 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders. The juveniles “committed multiple strong-arm robberies of bags and cell phones,” said the summary. “At least two victims suffered head/facial injuries requiring medical attention.” Police did not say if any of the suspects were armed, or describe exactly how the passengers were wounded. The attack was quick, police reported, and the teenagers were able to retreat from the station and vanish into the surrounding East Oakland neighborhood before BART officers could respond. The train that was hit was held for about 15 minutes as authorities investigated the crime and tended to the injured. BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said Monday morning she wanted to get more information from police before commenting in detail. But she said BART was “working with Oakland police, Oakland public schools, and the Oakland Housing Authority to identify the suspects based on surveillance images.”
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Just *try* to keep 50 “teens” from talking about something exciting, such as a train robbery, in their social media.
You can bet that images/video are on fb of that robbery.
Obviously, they were blonde blue eyed petite female Caucasian students wearing their Catholic school uniforms.
Free Shit Express
Youts!
No one had a Gun, Baseball Bat , Bear Spray?
If BART had the time and money to install decoy cameras, they had the time and money to install the real thing. Whomever signed off on that work order needs to be fired.
A new solution to the crime problem...
“One California city is paying people not to commit crimes”
White trash? Oh, sorry.
Successful first time raid.........expect more
I left Kali in the early 80s because it was becoming increasingly clear that sooner or later, I was going to have to shoot someone. Or several someones. And SF is the only place where I’ve ever had to draw a pistol on someone. Twice.
It’s kalifornia, you’re not allowed to have a gun right?
Happy to help! So...where are those surveillance images, anyway? Any descriptions of the perpetrators? Eyewitness stories? Not even which church group they were with? Amazing.
I rode the subway from Yokohama to Tokyo about 10 years ago. Sharing the car with us were a bunch of 1st & 2nd graders (they were wearing uniforms so they must have been all going to the same school). They had no adult supervision/accompaniment and apparently didn’t need any. They all got off at the right station and went on their way. This is in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Amish
“No physical descriptions of the perps ... and no video posted.”
They said “Teens” right in the title
Does that just about tell you what you need to know?
“Teens” is code.
= = =
Teens has an “n” in it.
Be careful with any acronyms.
They need 30 or 40 more raves to thin the herd.
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