Remember the "Beltway Sniper Incident", and the utterly inept Police Chief Charles Alexander Moose?
That's right. He was the chief of the Montgomery County Police.
Jus' sayin'.
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.
“monkey see.. monkey do”
You are absolutely right. I expect more. I’ve driven home from outings with the kids and one will ask for a Slurpee. I say, “Not at this time of night... maybe tomorrow”. Same goes for a Happy Meal. It is something you adjust your living to... not happily, but you do. I grew up in this county and we could run around in the neighborhood as little kids. Even at night... we were safe. I fear we are in for some violent and difficult times as a Nation.
Of course the owner would be justified in defending their property, but it's a state law so I am unfamiliar.
And as long as they don't trash the store or remove property by the legal definition of 'force' then yes, it's just shoplifting. Unless a lawyer can make a case that such a large amount of people constitute some type of force, but that's a stretch in my non-lawyer opinion.
If they didn't talk to you or threaten you or approach you in any way, then I don't see it. If they attempted to remove property from your person, then all bets would be off and that's a robbery, which is an inherently violent act. Draw away!
It’s a sad video and scary but I couldn’t help but find humor as one guy reaches out and deliberately knocks something off a shelf and a girl behind him stops, picks it up and neatly puts it back on the shelf. “Hey! Show some class when we mob a place”.
“Call this what it is: larceny.”
I agree with your call for correct terminology.
Therefore, I am correcting a minor error in your sentence to:
“Call this what it is: rioting with larceny, intimidation, and it is “a race based hate crime””.
Remember the "Beltway Sniper Incident", and the utterly inept Police Chief Charles Alexander Moose?
That's right. He was the chief of the Montgomery County Police.
Jus' sayin'.
Absolutely not! It is one of the richest counties in the United States, bordering the District of Columbia, and densely populated by households (both black and white) of well-paid government employees on every level. At least some of these flashthieves probably come from homes with incomes over $75K.
The smartass, cottonpicker-talking rageaholic thug girl at my workplace, who has threatened physical violence to any co-worker who tries to get her to give more than 60% on the job, has nice clothes, jewelry, a manicure, and drives a Lexus.
There is no hyperbole in my terminology.
Ask the 7-11 store owner, (or any robbery victim), if he feels he was fiscally assaulted.
Chief Moose went on to become a police officer in Honolulu.
I found that very puzzling, because he became just a regular policeman in Honolulu. It must have been quite a comedown for him to have gone from being chief of police in a major urban area to a beat cop.
I guess we could wonder why Chief Moose was never considered for high level police jobs in other places. It’s common to hear that a police chief or other higher ups have gotten recruited for similar positions elsewhere.
With the high profile that Chief Moose had during that sniper investigation, combined with his being a minority, I would have bet that he would have been recruited for police chief in numerous major cities. I guess it’s a good thing I’m not a gambling man.
“It is one of the richest counties in the United States...
Montgomery county is also “second place” in the U.S. as a sanctuary state/county. Are there people who earn a lot of money? Yes. However, in the communities with $500,000 dollar homes, there are the HUD houses/townhouses as well. In fact, in any newer community... a % of HUD houses have to be put in. Do you have Potomac? Yes. You also have Wheaton, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, some parts of Germantown etc...
One of my relatives fled to Virginia a dozen years ago, referring to Silver Spring, where he had lived the previous 45 years, as "Soweto." From my recent trips through Montgomery every week of the past 6 years, however, I'd say it now more resembles "Juarez."
I think you will find that Moose and his wife got ahead through discrimination lawsuits. Maybe that’s the reason why other jurisdictions have not hired him at rank.
Maybe also why he settled for a beat job, he will sue later as he is denied the rank and seniority he is so qualified.
Yep! Montgomery is one of the biggest sanctuary counties in a sanctuary state. Last school year, there were approximately 2,000 illegals who showed up to school on the first day (this is unannounced, the school knew a lot more were coming but didn’t know of the additional 2,000). Silver Spring and Wheaton are very rough areas. Lots of MS 13 and other gangs. Your relatives were very smart to get out while they could. They wouldn’t recognize it anymore.
You raise a salient point. Forcefully "integrating" communities by placing housing projects in the midst of middle-class areas has been the major liberal strategy aimed at preventing the ghettoization of poor people. As we look back, would it have been better to keep the races separate so that blacks would have to sink or swim in their own communities? I'm not sure that would have worked, either; especially considering the riots following the MLK assassination.
Allowing slavery to continue in order to appease the southern plantation owners was the one flaw in our constitution that we will keep paying for ad infinitum, it seems.
More of the same in Monkey Canny ping.
Unfortunately, one of the other posters was correct stating that many transplants come from D.C. and P.G. County. They do. Why? The HUD housing and benefits are better. Plus, as a major sanctuary county within a sanctuary state... many illegals from other states have come in. Each time that I read that a state has passed strict illegal laws... I think “good for them. Bad for us but good for them”. People from Monkey County know that more Virginia illegals et al.. are coming our way.
Yes ... and that only after graduating from police academy in Hawaii.
I spent two weeks watching over my shoulder, being amazed at just how many white "box trucks" there are in Fairfax County, and being appalled by Moose's nightly idiocies on the local evening news.
He did a stint as security chief for the DC National Guard. That didn't seem to last.
It is the bizarro world with these thugs running unchecked - we are becoming a third world nation - with the apathy of England in the recent attacks - soon Harry Reid will blame the Tea Party
Blue. That's part of the problem.
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Thanks for the blue perspective.
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