MD teenager shot Friday for refusing to give up his jacket

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Animals. https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2024/01/teenager-shot-in-hyattsville-after-refusing-to-give-up-his-jacket-police-say/

"A teenage boy was shot and critically injured in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday afternoon after three men tried to take his jacket, according to police.

Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod Towers said during a news conference Friday the teen boy was walking with two other young teens in a neighborhood in the 3500 block of Carnaby Street around noon, when they were approached by three men.

Those men, Towers said, singled out the teen boy and tried to take his jacket, but the teenager refused and a fight broke out. During that fight, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the teen who had refused to give up his jacket, hitting him once.

The teen boy was taken to the hospital, where Towers described his condition as “critical but stable.”

Its very racist to refer to underprivileged youth as “animals”

NP hows that? An animal is an animal has nothing to do with race give it a rest!!!!

It’s obviously projection on the part of the person claiming it’s racist. They subconsciously make the association, and assume everyone else therefore also must make the same association.


Uh, no. It’s just them. The actual racists.

[Anonymous]

New in PG County Teen Crime:

15-year-old driver dead following Prince George’s Co. crash involving stolen vehicle
https://wtop.com/local/2024/01/15-year-old-driver-dead-following-prince-georges-co-crash-involving-stolen-vehicle/

Thankfully, the only person dead was the driver of the stolen vehicle. It's a miracle no one else died. At 12:30 in the afternoon on a Friday, why wasn't the dead kid in school??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New in PG County Teen Crime:

15-year-old driver dead following Prince George’s Co. crash involving stolen vehicle
https://wtop.com/local/2024/01/15-year-old-driver-dead-following-prince-georges-co-crash-involving-stolen-vehicle/

Thankfully, the only person dead was the driver of the stolen vehicle. It's a miracle no one else died. At 12:30 in the afternoon on a Friday, why wasn't the dead kid in school??

Living life as a video game. And dying by it.

Maybe the passenger will learn something from this experience. Anything is possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend dated a bartender who died this way in DC. Nice guy. Way back in the 90s

Adam?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

This (not that I am condoning any of the crime--I am totally sick of it.) But I read a study once that noted that kids in high-crime dysfunctional communities often do not know a single person who supports him/herself with a [legal] job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

This (not that I am condoning any of the crime--I am totally sick of it.) But I read a study once that noted that kids in high-crime dysfunctional communities often do not know a single person who supports him/herself with a [legal] job.

It would be amazing if the people who "made it" showed this example, but they move out as quickly as possible and never look back. At some point do the winners have a special responsibility to go back and help the losers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

This (not that I am condoning any of the crime--I am totally sick of it.) But I read a study once that noted that kids in high-crime dysfunctional communities often do not know a single person who supports him/herself with a [legal] job.

It would be amazing if the people who "made it" showed this example, but they move out as quickly as possible and never look back. At some point do the winners have a special responsibility to go back and help the losers?

What??? Why would these people be responsible for helping others? It’s probably not even safe for them to go back to their old neighborhoods. I don’t blame them one bit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

This (not that I am condoning any of the crime--I am totally sick of it.) But I read a study once that noted that kids in high-crime dysfunctional communities often do not know a single person who supports him/herself with a [legal] job.

It would be amazing if the people who "made it" showed this example, but they move out as quickly as possible and never look back. At some point do the winners have a special responsibility to go back and help the losers?

What??? Why would these people be responsible for helping others? It’s probably not even safe for them to go back to their old neighborhoods. I don’t blame them one bit.

Because there is a lot of talk about institutional racism and the best people to address the effects of anonymous institutions are human beings with faces. Give back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Animals. https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2024/01/teenager-shot-in-hyattsville-after-refusing-to-give-up-his-jacket-police-say/

"A teenage boy was shot and critically injured in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday afternoon after three men tried to take his jacket, according to police.

Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod Towers said during a news conference Friday the teen boy was walking with two other young teens in a neighborhood in the 3500 block of Carnaby Street around noon, when they were approached by three men.

Those men, Towers said, singled out the teen boy and tried to take his jacket, but the teenager refused and a fight broke out. During that fight, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the teen who had refused to give up his jacket, hitting him once.

The teen boy was taken to the hospital, where Towers described his condition as “critical but stable.”

Its very racist to refer to underprivileged youth as “animals”

Is it racist to assume all 6 teens were black, because it involves PG county, flashy brands, and handgun used to take jacket?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

It’s rarely about the jacket. IYKYK

Ummmm? We don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

You know there are a ton of poor people in the world and even in this country who don’t go around shooting people at age 14 with a handgun, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pp here. Teens need mentors. If you are interested in being one, here is one organization: https://communityyouthadvance.org/program-overview/

Do people/teens really need someone to explicitly tell them it's wrong to shoot someone for the their coat? I always thought basic ethics were innate, but maybe I'm wrong. Most people I know who didn't have the greatest childhood and didn't have adults around to guide them, still ended up pretty decent people.

I mean even wild animals are better - they generally are violent only when it comes to survival.

Yes, they do need someone to explicitly tell them because in many cases, their parents did not. My guess is you grew up in an environment where most of your friends had two parent households, jobs, education. When single parents, low incomes and lack of education is the norm rather than the exception, and when positive male role models are scarce, problems arise.

From my vantage point, the bigger issue is a sense of entitlement fueled by social media. It is toxic. No excuses for violence, just trying to share some food for thought.

Most of the people I knew grew up with immigrant parents from massive poverty. Not US/DC/American poverty, but 3rd world poverty. And none of them needed to be explicitly told do not shoot people for coats, so the fact that some people need to be explicitly told this is mind boggling.

As for me, I grew up in a single parent household where one parent died when I was a young child. I grew up with a lot of responsibility (opposite of entitlement) to take emotionally take care of my surviving parent as well as essentially raise myself, with no extended family around. Coupled with immigrant backgrounds from tremendous poverty. Stealing *anything* has never been on my radar. Truthfully you don't find this kind of criminal behavior in immigrants or children of immigrants, for the most part. And that includes Black immigrants from Africa.

I agree that social media is a massive problem, however.

+1 thank you. I pretty much knew what I was going to see in this thread by the title—A bunch of excuses. Americans can’t fix this because they accept it and explain it away. There’s always some bs excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

They are victims of white supremacy 🙄.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pp here. Teens need mentors. If you are interested in being one, here is one organization: https://communityyouthadvance.org/program-overview/

Do people/teens really need someone to explicitly tell them it's wrong to shoot someone for the their coat? I always thought basic ethics were innate, but maybe I'm wrong. Most people I know who didn't have the greatest childhood and didn't have adults around to guide them, still ended up pretty decent people.

I mean even wild animals are better - they generally are violent only when it comes to survival.

DP. No which is why they don't need mentors, but long prison sentences.

If Democrats and their one party rule in this area don't get straight on crime, people are going to start to take things into their own hands. And it is really going to be the wild, wild west around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't see way out of poverty. They don't even see way out of crime as it's all around them. Why didn't their parents make it even if they work? Many still have family members and friends who borrow them poor.
When I was homeless, then poor then working, I had so many people getting money off of me. I almost didn't make it because of that. There only so many 10-12 hours shifts I can work for minimum wage and give money away. Luckily I got rid of all of them, the latest one asked for money a months ago, but now I have it.
I saw shooting and muggings, but wasn't directly involved besides one witness case.
Those kids do need to see that there's a way out, but we don't have enough people showing it to them. Their own neighborhood, peers and family are bigger influencers.

This (not that I am condoning any of the crime--I am totally sick of it.) But I read a study once that noted that kids in high-crime dysfunctional communities often do not know a single person who supports him/herself with a [legal] job.

It would be amazing if the people who "made it" showed this example, but they move out as quickly as possible and never look back. At some point do the winners have a special responsibility to go back and help the losers?

And risk getting killed? Why would they do that?
This culture is the real life crabs in bucket scenario and anyone with the will to get out would be insane to risk getting pulled back in.