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Another Black Youth Flashmobbery at Maryland 7-11 (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | August 15,2011 | Jim Hoft

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; blackflashmobs; blackthugs; blackyouth; cwii; donutwatch; flashmobs; hiphop; hiphopculture; holder; holderspeople; maryland; obama; obamayouth; rap; rapculture; wimpycops
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To: MrEdd

While you go on ahead thinking that it’s not debatable, I’ll stay in the real world where petty theft does not constitute assault, which is what the other poster said.


121 posted on 08/15/2011 12:18:04 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: triumphant values

Oh, and by the way, let me say that as a cop I would LOVE to get these punks and lock them up for a long time. We just have to work within the framework of the laws as they are written. For better or worse.


122 posted on 08/15/2011 12:19:35 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor
If, however, they made it a robbery

First google definition: Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force and/or by putting the victim in fear. ...

Second google definition: Law . the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation.

Shoplifter definition: a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.

Sure does sounds like they committed robbery. Shoplifting requires stealth / deception.

Your mileage may vary of course.

123 posted on 08/15/2011 12:27:52 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Watch what people DO, not what they say.)
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To: MrEdd
Dude, I've worked in the legal area for a long time. You go ahead and have fun trying to find a city ADA with a straight face who would charge one of these kids with robbery for this incident.

I've arrested guys who commit horribly violent crimes who are walking the streets the next day. This isn't a tv show or the movies. If you could see the legal wrangling that goes on in the criminal arena, you'd never leave your house. So gimme a freakin break.

You people are reacting emotionally to an incident from which you are pretty far removed. Which is fine, but don't fault me for knowing how the system works.

124 posted on 08/15/2011 12:28:06 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor
I’ll stay in the real world where petty theft does not constitute assault, which is what the other poster said.

I never said that it does. I said it is fair to use hyperbole to describe it as such in a debate, and that the law itself is no more honestly written or interpreted.

If you wish to continue to assert that this is not the case - you are going to find yourself explaining how a bee-bee gun is an assault weapon and how a cornfield with a couple puddles on it constitutes a navigable waterway.

If you pursue this instead of cutting your losses there will be no way for you to avoid a deluge of crap like that from within the statutes and within the opinions published by the court. Changing tactics and asserting that the citizenry has an obligation in debate that those appointed or elected to government positions isn't going to go well either.

Political speech has always included hyperbole, and the big thing here was never the dollar value of what was taken...it was the implicit threat of injury from so large a mob.

125 posted on 08/15/2011 12:40:10 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: little jeremiah

Related to the police aspect:

Mob violence: Greenfield provides an “anatomy of law enforcement impotence”
http://www.examiner.com/jewish-culture-in-philadelphia/mob-violence-greenfield-provides-an-anatomy-of-law-enforcement-impotence
(Note: this (my) article offers a summary of the parts of what Greenfield wrote most relevant to this particular comment/posted article.)

Here is the full, long-but-thorough Greenfield piece: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/08/anatomy-of-law-enforcement-impotence.html


126 posted on 08/15/2011 1:04:30 PM PDT by Adam Taxin
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To: EyeGuy
Terminology is a funny thing isn't it?
Take “anti-racist” for example.
“Anti-racists” always attack all/any/only white people for being “racist”
It's almost like “Anti-racism” is just a codeword for anti-white Has anybody else noticed this?
127 posted on 08/15/2011 1:08:40 PM PDT by Roderick.Bateman
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To: Brett66
What was the officer's race?

probably more pertinent is the fact that he belongs to a union.

128 posted on 08/15/2011 1:11:25 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: momtothree

I hear you. Great place to grow up in the 60’s and 70’s. Had a business there in the 80’s. Left in 1992... can’t recognize the place now.


129 posted on 08/15/2011 1:11:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: sockmonkey
If they can prosecute pro lifers under RICO, why not flash mobs?

Excellent observation.

130 posted on 08/15/2011 1:13:18 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: momtothree
Silver Spring and Wheaton are very rough areas. Lots of MS 13 and other gangs.

Wow... I went to Fairland Elementary (Silver Spring) back in the late 60s. Sad to know the area has gone down so far. I'm also glad we didn't stay.

131 posted on 08/15/2011 1:42:48 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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To: Brett66
What was the officer's race?

Don't know about the rest of him, but the stripe up his back was yellow.

132 posted on 08/15/2011 1:47:05 PM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: MulberryDraw

LBJ’s great-grandchildren. They produce a new generation every fifteen years. (For the rest of us, the average is every thirty years.)


133 posted on 08/15/2011 1:51:20 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah: Are you gonna fish or cut bait?)
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To: davisfh
I don’t know of a single person that I could convince to engage in something like this.

That's cuz you ain't en-TIE-tulled.

134 posted on 08/15/2011 1:51:47 PM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: Albion Wilde

My in-laws lived in Kettering. When Carter was president, he supposedly gave very low-interest home loans to minorities (remember, this was when interest rates were 11% plus). My in-laws were the last family on the block to sell- the entire neighborhood became black.

Then they went to Silver Spring. Their condo decreased in value from $150k plus (in the 90’s) to less than $95k in the time they lived there.

What is happening? All I can go by is familial experience. Classic government malfunction... anything the government subsidizes causes decay.


135 posted on 08/15/2011 5:05:45 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: thefactor

Yeah, so what if 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 thugs converge all at once to commit crimes in unison? No biggie, minor infraction, so store owners incur some losses, they have insurance anyway plus they probably have more money than these underprivileged underserved unrespected minority youths who’ve never had a break in life.


136 posted on 08/15/2011 5:25:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Pollster1

Did you leave off the sarcasm note?


137 posted on 08/15/2011 5:27:54 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
Did you leave off the sarcasm note?

That's the joy of the past decade. The far left fringe has gone so far off the deep end that even very thick sarcasm sounds like a mild version of what today's socialists say with sincerity.

138 posted on 08/15/2011 7:17:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

The local (Philly) NAACP praised Michael Nutter for his balls, too. That was a pleasant surprise.


139 posted on 08/15/2011 7:52:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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To: Reddy

It happened here, too. When we moved into this then-new development 15 years ago, the neighborhood was mostly white professionals, with about 15% black professionals — doctors, accountants, etc.

Then the helpful Democrats bused kids from poor neighborhoods until the schools were 95% “children of color.” Now, around 70% of homes that sell go to black families.

Who suffered the most? Besides the property values, which dropped almost 35%, it was the black professional families who now have to send their kids to private schools to keep them from associating with (and being stereotyped by) the drug- and knife-wielding kids from the po’ neighborhoods.


140 posted on 08/18/2011 10:42:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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