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'Flash mobs': Mayor Nutter takes pulpit to talk youth mobs
Metro (Philadelphia) ^ | August 07, 2011 | ALEXANDRA WIGGLESWORTH

Posted on 08/09/2011 7:02:46 PM PDT by annie laurie

Mayor Michael Nutter took a hard line against youth mob violence yesterday — chastising the black community in particular— from the pulpit of his West Philadelphia church.

“This nonsense must stop,” he thundered at Mount Carmel Baptist Church. “If you wanna act like a butthead, your butt’s gonna get locked up. If you wanna act like an idiot, move; we don’t want you here anymore.”

Nutter’s remarks were met with riotous applause as he addressed absentee parenting, peer pressure, and a sense of entitlement and disregard for consequences that seems to permeate teens who participate in violent swarms. The remarks came on the heels of the latest mob attack on July 29 in Center City, when two men were assaulted by 20 to 40 teens.

“Parents, if you don’t know where your kids are, you’re gonna find yourself spending quality time with them in jail,” he said, calling absent fathers “walking ATMs” and “sperm donors.”

“Please talk to your children because things are going to change,” he warned. The city said on Friday that it would ramp up enforcement of the teen curfew with a beefed-up weekend police deployment, and Nutter is expected to announce more serious measures involving both community groups and the court system at noon today.

Some in the black community agreed with Nutter’s assessment, but say extra enforcement measures aren’t enough to deal with the complicated sociological problems that have fostered a culture of violence.

“A black man may not have an opportunity to take care of his children. There are no jobs,” said security officer Douglas Jordan, 49. “More police will solve nothing. You have to get to [the kids’] hearts. Throwing their mom in jail ... is just going to cause more havoc.”

Silent majority

While Nutter admitted that “99 percent” of Philadelphia teens are law-abiding kids, he said the other one percent are doing irreparable damage to their peers — and to their race. “Some of them have made chains on our wrists,” he said. “I am forced by the stupid, dumb, ignorant actions of a few to take actions tomorrow that will affect many.”

“If you wanna be aggressive, we’ll be aggressive and we’ve got the biggest, baddest gang in town,” he said.

— Additional reporting by Yotam Dror


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: beingwhiteinphilly; flashmobs; mayornutter; nutter; pennsylvania; philadelphia
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Wow!
1 posted on 08/09/2011 7:02:51 PM PDT by annie laurie
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To: annie laurie

Good for Mayor Nutter. I’m in the burbs of Philly. Even more remarkable was that the local NAACP lead backed him up.


2 posted on 08/09/2011 7:06:22 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: annie laurie

Give this Mayor credit for trying to ge a HANDLE on the problem.


3 posted on 08/09/2011 7:06:48 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: annie laurie

I hope he actually means it!


4 posted on 08/09/2011 7:07:21 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: annie laurie
“A black man may not have an opportunity to take care of his children. There are no jobs,” said security officer Douglas Jordan, 49

If you are out of work, you have time to be home spending quality time with your young thug.

5 posted on 08/09/2011 7:09:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
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Nutter is an uber Democrat - and he is making sense. Good for him.

but say extra enforcement measures aren’t enough to deal with the complicated sociological problems that have fostered a culture of violence.

What would Jesus Christ say to this? Would He just dismiss their sin, mayhem, criminal behavior, murder, robbery, arson, theft, rape, hatred, and violence as "complicated sociological problems?"

Of course not.

"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."

Galatians 6:7

6 posted on 08/09/2011 7:10:44 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: a fool in paradise

There are no jobs, but somewhere these kids are getting money for mobile communication devices. And if lack of jobs and money is a problem why are they not just robbing these victims, but physically attacking them too? Or not robbing them at all? Sounds like pure vicious hate. Mr Nutter should address that, and tell them to stop the hate crimes now.


7 posted on 08/09/2011 7:11:40 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: a fool in paradise

They have to many houses to visit to spend much time with each of the thugs they spawned.


8 posted on 08/09/2011 7:13:00 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: SueRae

Things have been really bad in Phillthy for years. I don’t think Nutter has any other choice than to crack down or lose the city altogether.


9 posted on 08/09/2011 7:13:05 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: TNCMAXQ

Isn’t Philly working on free cellphones for the poor? I thought that was the story making the wires last week.


10 posted on 08/09/2011 7:13:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
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To: TNCMAXQ

Some local governments give out cell phones
for free to low income


11 posted on 08/09/2011 7:14:29 PM PDT by funfan
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To: annie laurie

Yeah, I saw this earlier today on Drudge. Right words only 30 years too late IMHO! No hope for the big cities in this country. The current residents will burn them to the ground in due time. If you are white and still live in one of these cesspools, RUN REALLY FAST!


12 posted on 08/09/2011 7:16:21 PM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / Still Think You're Free?)
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To: annie laurie

Beautiful!


13 posted on 08/09/2011 7:16:52 PM PDT by toddausauras
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Courageous leadership. Mayors, man up.


14 posted on 08/09/2011 7:17:09 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: a fool in paradise
There are no jobs.

Right! Not for someone who can't keep his pants from falling down, never washes his hair and doesn't speak correct English.

15 posted on 08/09/2011 7:17:23 PM PDT by ladyjane
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somewhere these kids are getting money for mobile communication devices.

Another FReeper mentioned today they can get about 40 cents cash per dollar of food stamps.

16 posted on 08/09/2011 7:17:43 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: annie laurie

A principled Black man of character DARES to tell the truth.

He is SO gonna get it from the race pimps like jessie jackson and al sharpton. Dr. William Cosby (a super-liberal) DARED to call out the Black Community for encouraging sloth and anti-intellectualism and the race pimps attacked him unmercifully!


17 posted on 08/09/2011 7:19:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Lazlo in PA
I don’t think Nutter has any other choice than to crack down or lose the city altogether.

Philadelphia is already lost. Where have you been?

18 posted on 08/09/2011 7:19:33 PM PDT by ladyjane
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“...complicated sociological problems that have fostered a culture of violence.”

ITS CALLED LIBERALISM PERIOD

The Democratic Party has been destroying the Black community for 40 years now


19 posted on 08/09/2011 7:20:02 PM PDT by sonic109 (no compromise with Marxist)
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To: a fool in paradise

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor”- H.L. Mencken


20 posted on 08/09/2011 7:21:14 PM PDT by Huck
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