Zoo Lights Shooting and Violence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the police taking guns off the streets?

I've never actually seen a gun on the street. They're usually in pockets.

And because then, the kids would use knives.

It’s not *just* about guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the police taking guns off the streets?

I've never actually seen a gun on the street. They're usually in pockets.

Should take the people who are pocketing the guns off the street. Aggressively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the police taking guns off the streets?

I've never actually seen a gun on the street. They're usually in pockets.

Should take the people who are pocketing the guns off the street. Aggressively.

If you dig up and read the excellent Post series on the Youth Rehabilitation Act, one of the MANY scandals in how youth are adjudicated in DC is that gun charges are routinely reduced down to non gun charges by prosecutors- so as to avoid the consequences and Insuppose bother that would result. This, in a city that went all the way to the Supreme Court to keep legal, licensed guns out of residents 'hands. It's kind of rich.

[Anonymous]

These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the police taking guns off the streets?

I've never actually seen a gun on the street. They're usually in pockets.

Should take the people who are pocketing the guns off the street. Aggressively.

If you dig up and read the excellent Post series on the Youth Rehabilitation Act, one of the MANY scandals in how youth are adjudicated in DC is that gun charges are routinely reduced down to non gun charges by prosecutors- so as to avoid the consequences and Insuppose bother that would result. This, in a city that went all the way to the Supreme Court to keep legal, licensed guns out of residents 'hands. It's kind of rich.

It’s the NRA. Making sure guns and ammunition are cheap, readily available and untraceable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly this make me wary of taking my kids downtown and to zoo lights. I'm not even sure how you'd protect yourself when they are beating up shop owners.

You don't need to be afraid, just be street smart. Keep your eyes open and don't go to Zoo Lights or Gallery Place when there are going to be a ton of troublemakers (after 8pm, summers, holiday weekends). If you see a big crowd of kids, move on. (In fact, just avoid big crowds altogether.) I've moved my kid from subway cars before because I don't like who's on them. We will go to zoo lights this year, but probably from 4:30-7 on a weeknight.

TBH, my biggest fear is those d*mn firecrackers. I have a very reactive stress response, and if I hear firecrackers in a crowded place or on the Metro, I would seriously freak out. I think my kid is much more likely to get hurt/scared in a stampede than in a shooting.

You sound very fragile. Far too fragile to give others advice about how to stay safe in a city. With a "very reactive stress response" (whatever the hell that is) you should stay in a quiet, safe suburb. City life isn't for you.

And you also seem to be afraid of black kids. Also not really a workable condition in the city.

It's funny that you think being self-aware of my own reactions, as well as observant of signs of possible trouble, equates to needing to leave the city. In other contexts this is called being "street smart" and how you get by living in a city. But sure, go ahead with your bad self and enjoy the panicked stampedes off the metro and shelter-in-place orders due to firecrackers on the metro. (Which happened last year in L'Enfant Plaza.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

Dude, you clutch your pearls and have a panic attack when you see a group of dark-skinned preschoolers board the Metro for a field trip with chaperones.
Don’t dodge the point being made here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.

You think it's normal for 12 year olds en masse to riot in a FroYo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.

Did you actually see the video? If you owned the FroYo place, would you be happy about what happened?

Have some empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.

You think it's normal for 12 year olds en masse to riot in a FroYo?

I think it's normal for 12 year olds to get in fights. I saw some kids pushing and shoving, throwing a couple punches. There's no riot there. Calling that a riot is a sign of a brain so diseased by racism that it can barely function.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

They looked like 12 year olds having a fight, like 12 year olds do. You people need to get a grip.

Did you actually see the video? If you owned the FroYo place, would you be happy about what happened?

Have some empathy.

All this talk about empathy for the FroYo patrons as if that's the ultimate tragedy in all this.
Any empathy for the two teens who got shot? Anybody give two shits about their status or has prejudice and dehumanization led you to be "Meh" about their injuries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These aren't children, they look like adult gangbangers

Yes, we're all aware of how prejudice and unconscious dehumanization has you convinced all young dark-skinned people look dangerous.
All Latino/Hispanic adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble rapists and MS-13 members.
All black adolescents look to be in their mid-twenties to you and resemble violent criminals and thugs.
It's no secret why an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice for waving a toy gun on an empty playground almost immediately after arriving on the scene.
He was black; so the officer's prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of blacks led him to believe that Tamir Rice must have been a 20-something year-old man and not a 12 year-old boy.

dude, they looked like dangerous gangbangers because they were rioting and tearing the store apart ...

Dude, you clutch your pearls and have a panic attack when you see a group of dark-skinned preschoolers board the Metro for a field trip with chaperones.
Don’t dodge the point being made here.

what point??? this was a video of kids rioting. not a video of preschoolers.