Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does that mean the Capitol Hill BID employees are "crypts"? Should I avoid wearing my red Washington Nationals hat on Pennsylvana Avenue or Eighth Street? This is very confusing for some of us.

I wear my Detroit Tigers hat. No one messes with me.

I wear my Joon Rhee shirt for the same reason.

Anonymous wrote:I still don't know why they wore the shirts.

Because they are stupid.

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of Eastern students are not robbing people.

No kidding Dick Tracy. But some evidently ARE.

The vast majority of Eastern students are not robbing people.

Anonymous wrote:They are troubling MY children's childhoods.

I agree. We need to protect innocents versus condoning perps.

They are troubling MY children's childhoods.

Maybe they had a troubled childhood.

Oh. They're having a troubled childhood.

Never mind.

I recently watched a large group of Eastern HS kids (in full uniform, button-down shirt with logo, tan pants -- not something a group of 12 or so kids would buy and wear down the street) come down Barracks Row just as loud and crude as can be. OK, whatever, teenagers, but fighting, pushing, screaming swear words, really rude.

Then on the way back up Barracks Row 10 min later or so, 1 of them grabbed a cell phone from a man who was standing with 2 other friends looking at a map on the phone. The Eastern kids were yelling the kids' name and cheering him on. The kid bolted across 8th St and down the alley toward 9th. He apparently picked the wrong 20-something-year-old because the guy took off after him and arrived back with his phone. I butted my head in and scolded the Eastern kids for representing our neighborhood school so badly. They got all in my face and yelled and claimed it wasn't an Eastern kid (who was walking with a group of Eastern kids and wearing the Eastern uniform).

These kids have no respect for authority or just plain adults, have a beautiful school and require multiple police officers in front of the school after school to keep them in control. It makes navigating his neighborhood difficult for my own high schoolers as they are known to jump other teenagers.

It's outrageous and makes me angry. I am quite sure there are some wonderful kids there and that it's a portion who are criminals or hang out with criminals. However, those kids going around in Eastern uniforms tormenting the minimum wage workers at local stores and passersby on the street are committing crimes, not pranks.

Especially when the crime happens 45 minutes after school lets out, approximately a 30-minute walk from the school.

Anonymous wrote:^^^ This from MPD says school uniforms.

and coordinated outfits on street criminals seems more suited to Droogs in Clockwork Orange than a random group of teenagers.

^^^ This from MPD says school uniforms.

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sorry guys, maybe I am a little thick, but the article I read just says that the robbers were wearing a Eastern t-shirt. my kids' school (not Eastern) - actually the HSA - sells the t-shirts online and anybody can buy them. while the culprits might be students or former students from Eastern, if this is the only evidence we have so far it does not seem fair to me to start a thread with "Eastern HS Students implicated in recent capitol hill crimes". I have a NYU shirt and I have never been a student there. maybe I am optimistic, but I would think that Eastern students would not be that stupid to commit a robbery wearing their school uniform.

4:00 PM robbery with knife near Atlas Theatre. Eastern uniforms on perps.

https://www.hillnow.com/2015/09/15/thieves-in-eastern-high-school-uniforms-commit-armed-robbery-on-h-street-ne/
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Psst, Word Salad. Its "Crips".