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.
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."
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?
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”
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.
“Atlanta the city with kind cops”.
I live in a college town. Once the sun goes down, it is unsafe to be out alone anywhere near campus..
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.
If they do, then they risk losing a chance for a degree.
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.
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.
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.
Who would have guessed?
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.
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.
Remember: When seconds count, the Police are just minutes away.
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....
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.
I like the way you think. Good advice.
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.
"Death Wish"
Good idea
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