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Another Robbery Near Georgia Tech (The police will protect you)
wsbradio.com ^ | 6/24/09 | Jon Lewis

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."



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KEYWORDS: armedrobbery; atlanta; banglist; gatech; georgiatech; guncontrol; robbery
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Don't you just love gun control? Ga Tech will throw out any student it catches armed, with the premise that the more helpless you are the safer you are. (BTW the college administrators who are responsible for this policy don't live in the area around GA tech) Well the criminal element in Atlanta has finally figured out that unarmed victims make the best kind of victims. Three nights in a row armed robbers have assaulted tech studens.

Some moron who is running for mayor said that "the city won't tolerate this" huh? It seems that they're tolerating it pretty well so far. But lest you think that the police aren't doing anything, every day this week I've seen at least two motorists being ticketed on the expressway in Atlanta on both my morning and afternoon commute. It sure made me feel a lot safer to see the police hard at work shaking down citizens on the expressway, and is doing a lot to help crime at the tech campus. Gun control advocate and mare of Atlanta Shirley Franklin has been strangely quite about this.

Atlanta police chief and obvious example of the benefits of affimative action, Richard ahmma Penning ahmma ton hasn't said anything about it either, although he flaps his big mouth about gun control every chance he gets - went to Washington at the taxpayers' expense to testify in favor of a permanent semi-auto ban.

I have a question for the mayor and the chief. How much do each of you spend of the taxpayers' money on your personal protection details?

1 posted on 06/24/2009 3:46:12 AM PDT by from occupied ga
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To: from occupied ga

Oh and I forgot, how much does anyone want to bet that the license plate on the suv was either stolen, or a piece of cardboard that said either “tag applied for” or “lost tag”


2 posted on 06/24/2009 3:48:26 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

Three nights in a row and going on all summer so far. They better get their ass in gear and the tech students better arm themselves.


3 posted on 06/24/2009 3:59:55 AM PDT by doodad
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To: from occupied ga
“I don't want to say anything about the police, because they've been kind to me,” Mills says

“Atlanta the city with kind cops”.

4 posted on 06/24/2009 4:00:57 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - MARSOC DAD)
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To: from occupied ga

I live in a college town. Once the sun goes down, it is unsafe to be out alone anywhere near campus..


5 posted on 06/24/2009 4:04:33 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: from occupied ga

This is the second night in a row a robbery of a student occurred in the same area near Tech. Last night’s victim said he didn’t see any police patrolling.

The area of these robberies was originally Techwood Homes, the first public housing in the country. Now it’s been redeveloped with upscale town homes and condos, but predators still prowl the area.


6 posted on 06/24/2009 4:04:37 AM PDT by Atlantian
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To: doodad
tech students better arm themselves.

If they do, then they risk losing a chance for a degree.

7 posted on 06/24/2009 4:05:49 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Atlantian
This is the second night in a row a robbery ...

It is NOT the second night in a row, it is the third consecutive night that a tech student has been robbed by black males in the vicinity of the tech campus.

8 posted on 06/24/2009 4:08:11 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Recon Dad
“Atlanta the city with kind cops”.

Well not too kind if you're going over the speed limit. This is from the APD's own web site

But if you're a black "youth" robbing someone they're kind enough not to spend too much time patrolling your happy hunting ground.

9 posted on 06/24/2009 4:12:07 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

Better that than risk it all. Most of this stuff is happening off campus like last night. And I would not blame them if they shot and walked away so as not to risk any backlash.


10 posted on 06/24/2009 4:16:31 AM PDT by doodad
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To: from occupied ga
"Mills described the suspects as two black men..."

Who would have guessed?

11 posted on 06/24/2009 4:19:38 AM PDT by blam
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To: doodad
Better that than risk it all.

I personally agree with you, but that's just me. I'm an old f@rt who sees things differently than the apparatchicks in college administration today. These kids have worked their asses off for their degrees, and I can understand their not wanted to jeapordize it for a low probability event. The tech "authorities" would come down on any kid guilty of armed self defense like a ton fo bricks. They'd love to make an example of someone who violated their precious liberal philosophy of gun control.

12 posted on 06/24/2009 4:25:15 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

The kid is twice an idiot, running from a guy with a gun to save his cell phone and then blaming the cops because they aren’t everywhere at every minute.


13 posted on 06/24/2009 4:27:55 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: from occupied ga

Remember: When seconds count, the Police are just minutes away.


14 posted on 06/24/2009 4:29:23 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine
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To: from occupied ga
They'd love to make an example of someone who violated their precious liberal philosophy of gun control.

It disgusts me how much Tech and their administration has changed since I was there in the early to mid 80's. The area surrounding the "North Avenue Trade School" doesn't sound like it's changed much at all, though. When I was attending Tech, a stroll down Luckie Street or Techwood after midnight was the best way to get thumped on the head and relieved of your wallet....

15 posted on 06/24/2009 4:30:35 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Fight Fascism - Buy a Ford!)
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To: wtc911

If you have to shoot someone in a place with anti-constitutional 2nd amendment repression, do it with a firearm that has no trace to you. Do not report it to the police, they have become the agents of repression. They will confiscate the firearm and arrest you.

Just shoot the b@$t@rd$ and walk away. You will feel much better and not have to whine about poor police protection.


16 posted on 06/24/2009 4:33:17 AM PDT by 2ndClassCitizen
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To: 2ndClassCitizen

I like the way you think. Good advice.


17 posted on 06/24/2009 4:46:13 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (If Randy Cunningham is in prison for corruption, then why isn't Diane Feinstein locked up as well?)
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To: wtc911

I wonder if we live on the same planet. Meekly giving up when a gun is brandished often gets you dead. And if you read the article the is the THIRD NIGHT IN A ROW that armed robbers have hit students in the immediate vicinity of the tech campus, so maybe, just maybe, the APD should have pulled a few cops off traffic shakedown duty or airport parking ticketing and stepped up the patrols around the tech campus.


18 posted on 06/24/2009 4:46:47 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen
Sounds like something Charles Bronson would do.

"Death Wish"

Good idea

19 posted on 06/24/2009 4:48:48 AM PDT by MountainDad
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To: from occupied ga
Similar to the unwritten policy of the New Orleans police as they go after the soft tourist in the Quarter rather then real crime a few blocks away.
20 posted on 06/24/2009 4:49:12 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - MARSOC DAD)
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