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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bricking people [/quote]

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.[/quote]

Oh come on.  This isn't about "preventing gentrification."  And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.[/quote]

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught. [/quote]

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?[/quote]

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