Citizens will be arrested, anger up and the real war will begin!
Posted on 08/15/2011 7:31:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Another flashmobbery took place at a 7-11 in Montgomery County, Maryland. Apparently, the police did not respond until the looters had ransacked and left the store.
From the video: A 7-11 in Montgomery County, Maryland was hit by a flash mob on August 13, 2011. The clerk activated a silent alarm, but police waited until the mob left the store before responding. Further, according to the video, the officer refused to investigate the crime, and only viewed this incident as shoplifting.
catch as many of them as you can & introduce them to torture with whips and red-hot irons....
“The freaks come out at night, the freaks come out at night...”
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Now, if the 7-11 manager had a standing offer of free coffee and pastries for police, the response time would have been much faster.
Same with me. I cannot wait until I can move out of this friggin’ state! It’s full of idiots and crinimals, with a safe working environment for crinimals, thanks to gun-grabber laws.
Citizens will be arrested, anger up and the real war will begin!
This is an unfortunate mistake that our society has made: to forbid the use of arms to protect one’s property. It renders store owners impotent to stopped massive thefts like these, that are literally taking food out of the mouths of their families. When you look at it that way, mass shoplifting really is a threat to people’s lives and livelihoods.
Really? So your state doesn't have felony facilitation, criminal mischief, mayhem, riotous action public alarm, participating in mob activity, conspiracy, entry for criminal purposes, wanton destruction, malicious destruction, or theft by intimidation statutes?
A first year assistant DA with three suspect statements and this video could come up with 25 years of stackable charges in his sleep.
Plus any cop should easily be able to surmise how many outstanding felony warrants that would probably be come across by detaining members of this mob, plus the myriad probation and parole violations likely.
Our neighbors all have different state designations that they are looking into: Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina... to name a few. What is amazing is that many local families that have lived in this state and county for generations and generations are now gone. Moved onto better areas. I understand the statement “I didn’t leave, it left me” since it applies to us. I also don’t know one person with a CCW license. I don’t think anyone can get it. In fact, I know several retired law enforcement officers that applied for one (via MSP) and were denied. We know several business owners that take their money (in a bank bag) who were denied permission for one.
And without concrete video evidence or catching the perps in the act, how would a cop know anything about outstanding warrants? Those are secondary concerns anyway.
The ONLY thing I can see is a possible robbery charge because of the sheer number of suspects participating in the act. The worker could say that he was too afraid to intercede due to the amount of suspects.
That isn't your call to make, and if you are too drunk or stupid to notice that the courts and legislature already abandoned any pretense of practicing that themselves then you need to lay off of the keyboard until you sober up.
Wow you’re a real peach, huh? So you’re saying that blatantly false exaggerations have a place in adult discussions of how the law should be applied? That’s pure genius.
This nonsense needs to be stopped now.
The last thing we need is a reformation of a Citizens Council.
Ike Legget better take a page from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s playbook and call these folks out.
Detective: So how did you all come to be here at midnight to rush the joint?
Suspect: Well Tyrone texted me around 11 and said to meet him and some of his boys, and we was gonna grab all we could from there.
There's my felony conspiracy. Now the standard for riotous action causing public alarm is what a "reasonable person" would be alarmed at, and the number needing to participate is different by state. But this group exceeded 20 which would satisfy the statute in any jurisdiction I'm aware of.
Sometimes there's a monetary threshold of damage or stolen goods, but since I've got a conspiracy all the participants are responsible for the total monetary value, not just the goods they personally absconded with.
So I've got what, a class D and a C, maybe two Ds and I'm just riffing off my head.
This isn't just misdemeanors.
It won’t be that subtle. It will be wide open!
Yeah, with more of the same to come.
I plainly said that within the law as written there are now blatantly false exaggerations and that anyone who thinks that the game is played some other way is either too stupid to understand the law, or too lacking in integrity to be discussing the law on this forum.
That really isn't debatable.
Who gives a damn about Montgomery County Maryland?
It's only felony conspiracy if they conspired to commit a felony, which petit larceny is not.
If, however, they made it a robbery (which would be difficult in NYS) then you might be able to charge conspiracy as a felony.
I'm assuming the value of all things stolen was under $1000, by the way.
It takes until post 110 for what was obvious to everyone else when they watched the video the first time to start finally prying it's way into your brain housing group?
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