Posted on 06/01/2014 4:14:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I never pay attention to rap anyway. To me it is crap, but thanks for researching it. The bottom line is, I think this will get worse before it gets better.
The “good citizens of Detroit” is almost an oxymoron.
When those targeted by this assault
Got news for you homies, that ain't even near Detroit and in that neck of the woods, it's unlikely even YOU could afford to live there..........
Given the hood and the fact that they were walkin' and not drive-by thuggin', it likely the perps were, wait for it, wait for it....here it comes Mikey, "kids suffering from affluenza".
That's right homies, ain't no Detroit ghetto blacks out der, only rich kids...............
It does seem to be getting worse.
Pontiac ditched some 500 city employees including most police. Police went to the county who cover Pontiac now. Other city services were privatized.
Thanks. I remember it now.
That’s what I have read!
From the Wall Street Journal...
Violent ‘knockout game’ a national phenomenon
http://online.wsj.com/article/APa2d6bf76647e475a9d4576667abf4dda.html
An editorial in the St. Louis paper in 2011 likened the game to behavior described in “A Clockwork Orange.”
In 1992, police in Cambridge, Mass., said three drunken teenagers decided to play “knockout” and randomly targeted an MIT student, according to news reports. After the student was knocked to the ground, a 16-year-old stabbed the victim to death as he tried to get up.
The defendant in that case, Shon McHugh, was sentenced as a juvenile to 20 years in prison.
You have remember that songs can have double meanings.
It might just be a co-incidence that the song was written three years after it started.
Sorry, I’m not buying it.
Buy whatever you want.
Thank you so much.
Having stayed there for some years, I can attest to the accuracy of your statement. It’s one of those places that make you or break you.
That’s just evil. A lot of people are going to be entering through the wide gate.
I thought last summer would be when things got out of hand and instead of the knockout “game” being perpetrated on just one or two defenseless people at a time it would become outright riots.
Didn’t happen. Guess they are getting too much free chit to riot.
Do you think Sylvan Lake would be a safe place to relocate then? How sad that Pontiac has become so awful. What about Pontiac Lake? I grew up waterskiing there as a child.
Your assessment of that part of Sylvan Lake is bang on the money. My sister and her boyfriend lived there before relocating to Royal Oak—they are without a doubt the two trashiest people I know personally. Actually her boyfriend very recently relocated from Royal Oak to Jackson Pen, where he’ll be a guest of the state for 19 months to four years. Lovely couple.
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