Posted on 04/25/2017 4:07:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’d almost expect something like this in a Third World country, but not here.
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.
“Unarmed” or not, a violent mob committing attacks of this magnitude create such a disparity of collective force that the situation would almost certainly justify the use of deadly force to stop this criminal assault, especially since two victims were beaten severely enough to require medical attention.
Perhaps if Californians had “shall issue” concealed carry instead of “may issue” restrictions that leave residents in many counties virtually unable to obtain a carry permit then nonsense like this wouldn’t happen… at least not twice. I have to think that someone skillfully using a compact semi-automatic such as a Glock 19 would have been able to take down enough of these vermin to see the others scampering back to their holes empty-handed.
“I’d almost expect something like this in a Third World country, but not here.”
How about at “Third World City”?
Kalifornia. They got a huge mountain of gold and turned it into a pile of crap.
Yes, but BART won't release them, concerned that they might be minors.
Paging Bernard Goetz....
Oh okay. /sarc
While I highly doubt they were all teenagers as nobody checked their ages, I also would guess they were all black, which would be easily verified by witnesses.
As usual, the media lies by omission, thereby protecting the problem. LIE-berals hate to admit their utopia is actually hell.
“I’d almost expect something like this in a Third World country, but not here.”
Well California is now a Third World country.
Thanks to Dubya, Obama, and the rest of the Open Borders, mass immigration lobby who never saw an illegal that they didn’t like better than Americans.
Bernie Goetz?
BART officials treat the violent takeover of a train and the beating and robbing of passengers as simple youthful shenanigans.
You know, we were all kids once, right?
The bigger issue is that somebody shooting one of these "yutes" would likely be subjected to a similar treatment as George Zimmerman got when he shot Saint Trayvon.
I used to carry a spare magazine for my glock, now I just carry 2 glocks .
Hey...maybe the ferals merely needed some money for college tuition. Also, they all are aspiring rappers. Give these black,Dreamers a break!
BART - Blacks Attack Riders of Train
The neighborhood where the teams entered the BART station is basically the inner city. So I don’t think there’s any doubt who these people were. Or what color they were rather.
Gawd, I loved that movie. And that was one of the best scenes in it. Bronson at his best!
“Teens” - yeah right.
We know what it really means and who it really is.
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