Posted on 06/24/2009 3:46:11 AM PDT by from occupied ga
(WSB Radio) Despite an increased police presence, armed robbers have struck again near the Georgia Tech campus.
This time it was at the Centennial Place Apartments, at Honeycutt and Lovejoy. And this time the victim lost his college bookbag containing his laptop.
Eric Mills was walking home early Wednesday morning when he noticed an SUV that made him suspicious.
"I continued walking and i'm on my cellphone, talking," Mills says. "All of a sudden, I felt a presence behind me."
Mills says he turned around and saw two men approaching him in "an aggressive manner."
Both were dressed in black. One of the two men had a gun.
"The asked me for my phone," Mills says, "and I threw my bookbag down thinking that my bookbag was more valuable."
Mills then tried running, using a car as a shield as he attempted to elude the two robbers.
"I was kind of dancing around the car as the guy is coming closer to me. The other guy with the gun is saying he's going to shoot me," he says.
Mills says all the robbers seem to want was his cellphone.
"I take off running, because this other guy is just coming at me. The other guy is coming at me, chases after me. I trip and I fall and he falls on my leg. We're both on the ground in the middle of the street. I cut my hand. I'm all cut up," Mills says.
Mills says he got up to run, but the second suspect, the one with the gun, was closer to him, pointing the gun at him and telling him to stop.
"He said 'I'm going to shoot you. Stop. What are you thinking?'"
Mills decided to run, again.
"As I take off in the middle of the street the guy that was on the floor, he gets up and he takes a couple of steps forward, to me.
"There were cars in the middle of the road, coming at me. I stopped the cars. No one came to help me," says Mills. "As I turned around, I saw them jumping in their car, with my bookbag and they take off."
Mills described the suspects as two black men, about 6'1 with light skin. He says the robbers were both wearing masks.
He believes the robbers were waiting for him, following him as he walked home. He also believes they were out looking for a college student and spotted him.
He also wonders why, just one day after another armed robbery, there was not a larger police presence in the area.
"I don't want to say anything about the police, because they've been kind to me," Mills says, "but why aren't the police roaming around and looking into cars or seeing people hanging around?
"These guys were waiting for me," he says. "They were waiting for someone. They're looking for college students. I'm as college student. So, college students beware."
or out running fund raisers on the expressway.
going after real violent criminals has two big disadvantages for the police. One - there isn’t any money in it, and Two they might actually get hurt. You can see why it is unpopular with police.
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"Meekly giving up when a gun is brandished often gets you dead." ------ Not as often as fighting or resisting to save a piece of property does.
Yup, I guess some folks are content to view themselves as cattle to be herded around my hirelings and slaughtered by predators.
Plan B: After the incident, immediately discard the barrel, extractor/ejector, and firing pin, preferably in another jurisdiction or somewhere nobody is likely to find them. Lightly file the breech face. Replace parts with new. Problem solved and you’re not out a perfectly good firearm.
These days, you would be in error. Not resisting gets you shot in the head when the perp leaves because they’ve learned that dead people do not testify.
None so deluded as the self-deluded. Tell me where did you come up with this piece of bullsh!t? "Not as often as fighting or resisting to save a piece of property does." Did you read it on Sara Brady's web site? Or did you get it out of Pete Shields' book "guns don't die people do"?
Try reading the article on the various forms of resistance by Gary Kleck in "Social Problems" That shows you get hurt less often resisting (best with a firearm, second best with a blunt instrument) than simply complying. Although resisting with a knife gets you hurt more often than not resisting, so in that instance you are correct.
nonsense.
Yes, they're called "New Yorkers" and sometimes "Marylanders" and other time "Massholes."
LOL. Answer “The Call” to become a revenue enhancement professional!
It is time for a few sting operations in the Georgia Tech area. These criminals have gotten bold enough to go after some phony victims at this point.
Concealed means concealed. Until GT and just about every other college in this country discover Common Sense, the better of the many bad options available is for the qualified and licensed 21 year old student to live off campus, pack, and shut up.
Tech has been situated in the middle of a s#$%hole for a long time. The razing of Techwood Homes and construction of high end urban lib housing hasn't changed that one bit. It's not like I ever leave home without it anyway, but there's absolutely no way I head inside the Perimeter without a concealed .45, a spare mag, and my head on a constant swivel. Period. Yeah, the city of Atlanta is *that* bad, IMHO.
If you're lucky and your kid's smart enough to be accepted at Tech or some other similarly-situated urban college, you really need to evaluate whether your 18 year old is prepared to live in that environment and whether the risk is worth it.
Can't do it. It would net black criminals, and this goes against the Atlanta government's philosophy of being soft on black criminals.* The "community activists" would be up in arms claiming "racism"
*The police assigned guard the house of the former mayor (now convicted felon) Bill Campbell once ran the plate of a car that was dropping off his son. The plate came up for a stolen vehicle. The police were told to stop running plates for cars that came and went at the mayor's house.
Would love to see Atlanta Mayor’s and police’ reaction if that had been a “predominantly black school” and the perps were white.
The problem with Georgia Tech, and Georgia State University, is they are situated not as enclosed campuses, but buildings scattered in and around the downtown area. My daughter plays for Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra and rehearses in a GSU building on Luckie Street. One of the reasons I got a carry license was I was picking her up at 6:30 at night. But...I can’t carry down there. No matter where I am, I am within 1000 feet of a “school”.
Oh, and I’ve NEVER seen any police down there as a “presence”. Never.
“you really need to evaluate whether your 18 year old is prepared to live in that environment and whether the risk is worth it.”
DO NOT be in Atlanta when the lights go out in georgia...
“But if you’re a black youth” in Atlanta the police are on your side!
For anyone who believes the police will protect them:
http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/search?q=48+minutes
the police are not there to protect the individual. they are there to protect the society as a whole.
sure, they get lucky sometimes with a crime in progress but for the most part police are there to attempt to take reports, solve crimes and punish the offenders.
when people understand this, they will be able to make themselves less of a victim.
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