Union Station: Student prevented access?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I googled it said "targeted ticket check" because of rowdy groups of teens and fighting in Union Station.

It's ridiculous to ban all minors from the building, though.

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Anonymous wrote:How would they know how old your son was? There must be more to this story.

He is a freshman- they were asking for IDs to prove he was 18 or over

How are kids supposed to get to Gonzaga!

Given what I saw today they will not be.

Love that for the MAGA parents.

Thankfully we don’t have many. But this is still a real problem for the boys. When the National Guard first showed up they pulled this nonsense and we had to have parents volunteer at the metro to escort the students in. Ridiculous

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How would they know how old your son was? There must be more to this story.

He is a freshman- they were asking for IDs to prove he was 18 or over

How are kids supposed to get to Gonzaga!

Given what I saw today they will not be.

Love that for the MAGA parents.

Thankfully we don’t have many. But this is still a real problem for the boys. When the National Guard first showed up they pulled this nonsense and we had to have parents volunteer at the metro to escort the students in. Ridiculous

But WHY? Just because some kids get rowdy? Whose authority is cited?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How would they know how old your son was? There must be more to this story.

He is a freshman- they were asking for IDs to prove he was 18 or over

How are kids supposed to get to Gonzaga!

Given what I saw today they will not be.

Love that for the MAGA parents.

Thankfully we don’t have many. But this is still a real problem for the boys. When the National Guard first showed up they pulled this nonsense and we had to have parents volunteer at the metro to escort the students in. Ridiculous

But WHY? Just because some kids get rowdy? Whose authority is cited?

Very specifically, some people got assaulted at the food court by some kids this past week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I googled it said "targeted ticket check" because of rowdy groups of teens and fighting in Union Station.

It's ridiculous to ban all minors from the building, though.

This is a Reddit post from 4 months ago, but disturbing. The Mayor should explain how DC doesn’t have school busses so kids commute on their own on the metro.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1n7sn5d/kid_harassed_at_union_station/?chainedPosts=t3_1q4ygjs

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OMG what totalitarian hellhole would ban children from area they don't need to be that have been prone to your violence.

Oh, the DC government would?

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/dc-curfew-law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can access the Metro without entering the station. Does he take Maryland commuter rail or something? Amtrak? Does he NEED to get into the station?

Lol, probably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG what totalitarian hellhole would ban children from area they don't need to be that have been prone to your violence.

Oh, the DC government would?

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/dc-curfew-law

Trump
Did this fool

Maga cult of stupidity

Stopping Americans going to a hockey game is on Trump!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I googled it said "targeted ticket check" because of rowdy groups of teens and fighting in Union Station.

It's ridiculous to ban all minors from the building, though.

Pretty common in shopping malls, which Union Station basically is.

They were not banned from the Metro.

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Anonymous wrote:How would they know how old your son was? There must be more to this story.

He is a freshman- they were asking for IDs to prove he was 18 or over

How are kids supposed to get to Gonzaga!

Given what I saw today they will not be.

Love that for the MAGA parents.

+1

And, yet, crime is way down on the Hill. The residents are loving it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ugh they did this last year during the DC invasion. After his success at the Kennedy Center, our dear leader wants to re-name another institution in his honor. So create a fake distraction then come in an solve a non problem. Abracadabra, there's nothing to see here; there are no Epstein files.
god I hate what he's getting away with.

thanks obama /s

[Anonymous]

Of all of the idiotic things they have done in DC this bothers me so much. I am at the Union Station daily (take the MARC train). The teens I see there are usually Gonzaga kids and they have never bothered me. They are NOT the problem. I do see adults evading metro fares all the time, though.

[Anonymous]

Groups of teens make trouble. They are trying to keep Union Station safe for travelers.

[Anonymous]

The comment about keeping travelers safe from groups of teens is sickening. Or atr you targeting teens with brown and black skin?
As a reminder - the national guard is NOT domestic law enforcement. Let’s not forget this. It is a terrible that they have been permitted to harass and intimidate people in DC with the rifles on their backs as we move around trying to conduct our daily lives. And terrible that anyone on this board thinks that is okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The comment about keeping travelers safe from groups of teens is sickening. Or atr you targeting teens with brown and black skin?
As a reminder - the national guard is NOT domestic law enforcement. Let’s not forget this. It is a terrible that they have been permitted to harass and intimidate people in DC with the rifles on their backs as we move around trying to conduct our daily lives. And terrible that anyone on this board thinks that is okay.

Counterpoint: the only time the metro is at all bad is 3:30 at school release and it’s all teens getting into it. If they didn’t assault random people waiting in line at raising cane’s, there wouldn’t be a broad swell of approval for keeping kids out of the mall and food court. I don’t want it to be National guard, but I’m ok with MPD breathing down their necks. It’s the least we can ask for given how much money gets spent on these kids. It shouldn’t be offensive to ask them to behave, and monitor them when they don’t, it’s part of the social contract.