Higher police presence than usual in Cleveland Park today. Frankly, I'm glad to see them.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

BLM=Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with 8-10 people threatening robbery with at least 1 knife. Get real. Our people and police not supposed to do or say anything because it isn't PC since a suspect or criminal might be black? Do you think victims might never be black?

Irrational fear of black males. Stop associating black with crime and violence. You will be happier if you work past/through your bigotry.

The police description did not include race, as the thugs were wearing hoodies and masks. You are the one associating this with black males.

do you think its 10 white males?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

BLM=Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with 8-10 people threatening robbery with at least 1 knife. Get real. Our people and police not supposed to do or say anything because it isn't PC since a suspect or criminal might be black? Do you think victims might never be black?

Irrational fear of black males. Stop associating black with crime and violence. You will be happier if you work past/through your bigotry.

The police description did not include race, as the thugs were wearing hoodies and masks. You are the one associating this with black males.

How did they know they were teenagers?

There were 2 incidents of robbery w/ force and violence:

one event was on/near 44th and Davenport (so kinda by the Safeway); the other shortly thereafter was on/near 47th and Davenport.

I've lived here a long time and this sort of thing happens EVERY MONTH on a street of brick Colonials near either Wisconsin or Connecticut. The trick is to have it not be you. Odds are, it won't be.

And to the loser new arrival millennial with the hackneyed "pearl clutcher" epithet ....

1) you're from suburban Cleveland, Montclair, NJ, or Westchester County. So STFU

2). You live in a micro condo in "Shaw," and you pat your not old-hen self on the back for that street cred move, but you wouldn't have lived in Shaw in 1995. Shown a picture of 1995 Shaw while you sat in your Muppets pull-up in Montclair, NJ, you would've clutched your pearls.

3) You are aging every moment, the same as the rest of us. Unless you get early onset breast cancer, you too will grow old [/spitting sneer]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

Wearing them in public is illegal in France, along with the niqab.

So what?! This is DC.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

Wearing them in public is illegal in France, along with the niqab.

Packs of wild criminal juveniles are running the street of dc.

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Anonymous wrote:OK this is getting out of hand!

A robbery spike in Capitol Hill is one thing. But chief Lanier had better start doing her job now that Upper NW is being affected!

Of course when formerly pretty safe areas are start to be impacted, the cops should be on it to prevent crime from spreading. Unless, of course, DC wants to go back to the good ol' Barry days, when downtown told Upper NW that you're on your own.

Crime in Upper NW is not new. Lord, you are all a bunch of pearl clutching old hens!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

BLM=Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with 8-10 people threatening robbery with at least 1 knife. Get real. Our people and police not supposed to do or say anything because it isn't PC since a suspect or criminal might be black? Do you think victims might never be black?

Irrational fear of black males. Stop associating black with crime and violence. You will be happier if you work past/through your bigotry.

The police description did not include race, as the thugs were wearing hoodies and masks. You are the one associating this with black males.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

BLM=Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with 8-10 people threatening robbery with at least 1 knife. Get real. Our people and police not supposed to do or say anything because it isn't PC since a suspect or criminal might be black? Do you think victims might never be black?

BLM is an anti-police group. No specific indication that they were directly involved in this robbery though.

Anonymous wrote:OK this is getting out of hand!

A robbery spike in Capitol Hill is one thing. But chief Lanier had better start doing her job now that Upper NW is being affected!

Of course when formerly pretty safe areas are start to be impacted, the cops should be on it to prevent crime from spreading. Unless, of course, DC wants to go back to the good ol' Barry days, when downtown told Upper NW that you're on your own.

Anonymous wrote:How do we even know that this actually happened? Nothing in the post about witnesses. We are just assuming that the victim is telling the truth.

There was another robbery a few blocks away. Should we just "assume" that that victim is telling the truth also?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

BLM=Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with 8-10 people threatening robbery with at least 1 knife. Get real. Our people and police not supposed to do or say anything because it isn't PC since a suspect or criminal might be black? Do you think victims might never be black?

Irrational fear of black males. Stop associating black with crime and violence. You will be happier if you work past/through your bigotry.

NP. Nice try. Profiling happens for a reason and, while there may be some bigotry involved, it's also based on frequency of occurrences - i.e. fact.

Read the descriptions in the MPD crime advisories.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing to see here. The cops are harassing young males. #BLM. Since when did ski masks become illegal?

I hope that this post is meant as a joke.

How do we even know that this actually happened? Nothing in the post about witnesses. We are just assuming that the victim is telling the truth.