Did your teen son travel south on Wisconsin Ave in front of best buy today by bus around 6pm?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they are the parents of the kids who throw rocks. This type of attitude and disrespect for others usually starts at home.

#rockthrowerslivesmatter

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Anonymous wrote:Good. I am not sure what is w the anti police attitude. Their presence dampens mayhem, their judicious intervention may get a kid back on track. When jn doubt, summon them. And the schools/parents need to get the message that the kids need to behave as they exit campus or police will respond


I feel really bad for the metro bus routes constantly under attack by rock throwers. They need to nip that, asap. That is hell for the drivers and passengers.

+1, and to PP who posted the article.

This is antisocial behavior, and a visit from the police could do some good to make clear how serious it is. We're not saying throw them in jail for 100 years, we're saying call the police and let them take care of it.

[Anonymous]

My 23 year old calls it Gallery Place but my 20 year old calls the area Verizon Center. I still use Chinatown.

[Anonymous]

Such a freaking wimp...who posted this tidbit. Especially, about taking video but was didn't want to be that close to the boys. Hogwash, no bullsh*t either be part of the solution or just go about wimpy business. You saw so much and did so little...go away and kicks some rocks

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I don't know the size of these rocks -- but maybe OP didn't want to get hit in the head with a rock if these kids decided to be nasty. It's OK to call the police. That's being part of the solution too. Yelling at them could go either way, and generally isn't the method of discipline that tends to work very well over the long term.

[Anonymous]

A recent Wilson grad stabbed a complete stranger to death on a train this summer. No, I am not painting all Wilson or other student with that brush - merely highlighting how volatile a situation has potential to be. If you don't know a young person you also cannot predict how they will react. Police are trained in this. If someone is engaged in criminal.mischief and you cannot determine it safe to intervene, call them. Nothing wimpy about that. The kid will get a warning from someone they can't cuss out, strike or just roll their eyes at. Hopefully it will make an impression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A recent Wilson grad stabbed a complete stranger to death on a train this summer. No, I am not painting all Wilson or other student with that brush - merely highlighting how volatile a situation has potential to be. If you don't know a young person you also cannot predict how they will react. Police are trained in this. If someone is engaged in criminal.mischief and you cannot determine it safe to intervene, call them. Nothing wimpy about that. The kid will get a warning from someone they can't cuss out, strike or just roll their eyes at. Hopefully it will make an impression.

Clearly this graduate was on the jail (vs Yale) track.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A recent Wilson grad stabbed a complete stranger to death on a train this summer. No, I am not painting all Wilson or other student with that brush - merely highlighting how volatile a situation has potential to be. If you don't know a young person you also cannot predict how they will react. Police are trained in this. If someone is engaged in criminal.mischief and you cannot determine it safe to intervene, call them. Nothing wimpy about that. The kid will get a warning from someone they can't cuss out, strike or just roll their eyes at. Hopefully it will make an impression.

Clearly this graduate was on the jail (vs Yale) track.

Uh, no. From the press it appears the young man was mentally ill - and the mental illness struck a couple of years after he graduated (and went to college - not Yale, but a perfectly respectable school). This is (sadly, horribly) a pretty typical age for many mental illnesses, e.g., schizophrenia.

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Op here. To be honest my kid goes to deal and it wasn't me I was concerned about. My immediate thought was if I make a video or call the police and the boy recognizes me later - because my size is not unique - then do I put my very small DS at risk of retaliation. Merit or not that's the truth.

[Anonymous]

Different places, but all adjoining/connected. But everyone seems to want to munge them all together.

Gallery Place / Verizon Center is just the couple of blocks by the metro stop. The neighborhood is still Chinatown, that's a bigger area than Gallery Place / Verizon Center. Penn Quarter is south of there, separate and distinct from Chinatown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. To be honest my kid goes to deal and it wasn't me I was concerned about. My immediate thought was if I make a video or call the police and the boy recognizes me later - because my size is not unique - then do I put my very small DS at risk of retaliation. Merit or not that's the truth.

If a Deal student is hurling rocks on Wisconsin Ave, he shouldn't be at a Deal any longer. He should be assigned to Lorton Reformatory or wherever it is that juvenile offenders get sent these days.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A recent Wilson grad stabbed a complete stranger to death on a train this summer. No, I am not painting all Wilson or other student with that brush - merely highlighting how volatile a situation has potential to be. If you don't know a young person you also cannot predict how they will react. Police are trained in this. If someone is engaged in criminal.mischief and you cannot determine it safe to intervene, call them. Nothing wimpy about that. The kid will get a warning from someone they can't cuss out, strike or just roll their eyes at. Hopefully it will make an impression.

Clearly this graduate was on the jail (vs Yale) track.

Uh, no. From the press it appears the young man was mentally ill - and the mental illness struck a couple of years after he graduated (and went to college - not Yale, but a perfectly respectable school). This is (sadly, horribly) a pretty typical age for many mental illnesses, e.g., schizophrenia.

Exactly - people.can be volatile for a variety of reasons including mental illness, impulsivity or anti social tendencies. So I would not intervene if I didn't feel safe - I would call someone who addressed the situation with training. I never said the Wilson metro murderer did not go to college - his apparent deterioration is part of what makes this story extremely sad.

[Anonymous]

How many kids from Wilson as opposed to how many from, say Ballou getting in trouble?

[Anonymous]

I taught at Wilson and when they have a weapons incident they do everything in their power to cover it up and according to teacher friends in MOCO same thing happens.

[Anonymous]

The largest high school will have the most issues.