Posted on 12/18/2009 12:48:16 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Police are monitoring large groups of roving teenagers in Center City.
Police said they had been alerted that youths planned to gather in the area in response to a dust up earlier in the week at the food court at the Gallery.
The message for the gathering apprently had been spread via the Internet, police said.
Security guards were posted at every entrance to the Gallery Mall on Market Street and reportedly were not letting anyone under the age of 18 in.
Police reported groups of 100 to 200 teens in the areas of Market Street, Sansom Street, Chestnut Street and Broad Street starting around 2 p.m..
One woman who was Christmas shopping reported she had been punched in the face by a girl after she found herself in the midst of 70 to 100 youths on Market Street. The blow bruised her face and knocked out a lens to her sunglasses.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
It’s incredible that there are still people who believe that “ all they need are jobs” or “only poor, black people commit crimes” palaver. Those theories were discredited years ago. That kind of thinking went out with Jimmy Cagney and the Dead End Kids movies.
Did they ever stop to think that they can’t be so impoverished if they’re organizing by cell phone and internet - unless workngirl is the type who believes that one is deprived if one doesn’t have cable tv. Which she might be.
They do this because they are mean bullies, or being directed by mean bullies in the absence of responsible parenting,coupled with the fact that the Philadelphia Police Department is pathetic, the courts in Philly even worse, the Probation Officers just collect their paychecks, the same goes for the social workers and the school district is the worst of all.
Meanwhile the politicians just keep giving the tax money away without demanding results. The only result they want is for the police, social workers, teachers etc to vote for them.
This is why Philly is so screwed up.
Great minds think alike.
Can’t wait for my new neighbor to move up for good so’s I can get my 1919A4 kit up and running.
Nothing says NO! like a 250 round belt of .308
Short bursts. Keep ‘em coming.
Liberal cities have spent years breaking down American culture, and then they spend a fortune trying to replace it with PC, making things worse. The only solution left is to spend another fortune providing enough police power to keep the peace, and they can’t afford it. Welcome to the Third World.
Where is that Mayor who bombed the city circa 1970...this time use something bigger than a mere dynamite bomb. Since der leader is scraping our nuclear defense, we may as well put some of those to be scraped to good use.
Philly is a sinkhole of a different kind. With guys like Alan Iverson as their idols, did you think they would get a different outcome? Get a conceal carry permit, and lock and load. I will be in eastern PA for part of the holidays and thank goodness Colorado and PA have conceal carry reciprocity. Me and my 1911 will be just fine wherever we go.
Sixty days ago, I began taking at least one gun with me everywhere I go. One in my vehicle and one on my person.
Attack me and I will kill you without remorse.
If more than one attacks me, I will kill all of you.(w/o remorse)
I'm an old White guy and all of my old buddies are armed too. (We're expecting you.)
No, they must be Orthodox Jews.
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They are his color.
Don't use my tax dollars to do that. The inhabitants of that liberal haven will only destroy it again within a few years. Let them live in the squalor.
Frank Rizzo.
Very good. I'd like to put "Super Quick" into the running.
Minority youth are finding amazing new uses for Web 2.0, mobile phones and such. Flash Mobs were created by early Twitter users as performance art. Now they are being used for setting up riots and robbery.
If I knew then what I know now, I would pick my own cotton.
Low yield tacticals, you’re thinking?
You've got problems with fallout and indiscriminate property damage with those.
I'm thinking something chemical.
Probably same yufes that are terrorizing the Asian kids at Southern.
Watch your step in Philly with that. Phila is a Class I county for CCW, the only one in PA by the way, and may have it's own rules on out of state CCW recognition. Not 100% sure but worth looking into if you plan to go into Phila County.
Bring back Mayor Stret! He had THE IDEA!!
Send in the B-52's!
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