Posted on 04/24/2017 4:42:20 PM PDT by SkyPilot
BART police are beefing up patrols at Oakland stations after dozens of juveniles terrorized riders Saturday night when they invaded the Coliseum Station and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries.
The incident — the first of its kind in recent memory — occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told police that 40 to 60 juveniles flooded the station, jumped the fare gates and rushed to the second-story train platform. Some of the robbers apparently held open the doors of a Dublin-bound train car while others streamed inside, confronting and robbing and in some cases beating riders.
“At least two victims suffered head/facial injuries requiring medical attention,” said a police summary prepared after the incident.
Alicia Trost, a BART spokeswoman, said Monday that seven people were robbed — with the victims losing a purse, a duffel bag and five phones. Six people were robbed inside the train car, with a seventh confronted on the platform, she said. Police received no reports of guns or other weapons being brandished.
The attack was quick, police reported, and the teenagers were able to retreat from the station and vanish into the surrounding East Oakland neighborhood before BART officers could respond. The train was held for about 15 minutes as authorities interviewed victims and witnesses and tended to the injured.
Trost said police arrived at the station in under 5 minutes, but the robberies took place in just seconds. No officers were at Coliseum station at the time, but were patrolling Oakland stations, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Well, OK then.
California is very concerned about the rights of youthful marauders, you see.
One of the joys millennials will discover in their quest to live in long term democrat controlled cities over the suburbs.
But, but…walk home from the bars.
Cell phone mining....
Or any descriptions evidently. Sounds like some of those rogue Amish gangs again.
Were they showing ids? If not, then how would they know how old?
They won’t reveal photos because they’re all under age.
A shame that California is not more concealed carry friendly.
Still they were juveniles, they will have time enough to die as they get older.
I lived in Cambridge at the time, and I was showing my sister around who was visiting (we had just returned from the Aquarium.
About 20 "teens" entered the train, and started stalking potential victims. The train was packed, and I had my girlfriend (now my wife) on one side of me and my little sister on the other (she was no more than 12).
Suddenly, I noticed that the "teens" were breaking out weapons, including knives. We had no room to even maneuver.
The train came to a stop, and that's when they started to grab necklaces, purses, and the the life from passengers. One grabbed my little sister's purse, and I confronted a knife wielding "teen" and got it back. Then, it seemed like the entire gang turned their attention toward me, and a knife was at my throat. One "teen" punched my little sister hard in the face. My future wife got between the gang and shouted "NO!" with her arms in front of me.
The passengers, and the MBTA employees all ran. Not one person helped us.
I spent a career in the military, and that experience, and this one (and others) taught me to be hyper-vigilent in certain situations and to pay attention to my surroundings.
And to thank God.
[ The images cannot be shared publicly, she said, because the suspects appear to be minors. ]
The images cannot be shared publicly, because the MSM and local news are cowards and have been lying and covering-up crime for decades.
Lest the general public catch on to what is happening.
We are not allowed to say that they are black young men. We are allowed to say they are teenagers. We can identify their ages but not other more descriptive characteristics.
Time to start deporting Africans back to Africa. They certainly are NOT Americans!
Forty to sixty? Holy crap, I only carry 21 rounds, as a general rule.
Allow me to read between the lines:
*The Coliseum BART station is in Oakland. Oakland is a predominantly minority and radically liberal city where gangs of feral youths are known to cause fear.
*Dublin bound trains serve a more affluent prominently white population.
My guess for why images cannot be shared and why the only identification given is youths would result in me being called a racist.
Can’t defend yourself against them since all they wanted was money for school clothes and stuff; you’d be arrested in Gay Town if you did.
Are the YOUTHS part of the Sanctuary State policy?
Oakland is little Africa. Any guesses what the perps were?
Make no mistake, if you take out 20 the rest will run.
.
>> “The attack was quick, police reported, and the teenagers were able to retreat from the station and vanish into the surrounding East Oakland neighborhood before BART officers could respond.” <<
If the BART cops were on the trains where they belong, instead of cruising around in $100,000 patrol cars, these things couldn’t happen.
wahttp://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-50-to-60-teens-swarm-11094745.phpy
railcars are equipped with fake cameras,unreal...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.