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Thief Beaten to Death After Stealing Car With Kids Inside, Police Say
NBC Philadelphia ^ | 07.12.2019 | David Chang

Posted on 07/12/2019 2:38:32 AM PDT by big truck

A father chased after a car thief who stole a vehicle with his children inside and then beat him to death with help from bystanders Thursday night in Philadelphia, police said.

The ordeal began around 9 p.m. when a 25-year-old woman parked her Hyundai outside a pizza shop on 29th and Dauphin streets. The woman went inside the shop to visit her 25-year-old boyfriend who worked there but left her three young children inside the running vehicle, police said.


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To: thefactor

Lived there for 57 years and worked days and nights in the streets, backyards, rooftops and basements of some rather “colorful” neighborhoods. Swore that when I retired I would emigrate to America.......I did!


61 posted on 07/12/2019 7:21:34 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: big truck

More of that, less crime.


62 posted on 07/12/2019 7:26:39 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: big truck

There is nothing on the ground floor of my house worth dying for. Start up the stairs and the rules change.


63 posted on 07/12/2019 7:28:08 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: thefactor

“It’s just a matter of perspective.”

My expression of that has been for decades— There are more white niggas than black...It’s a way of life, not a color of skin !


64 posted on 07/12/2019 7:29:54 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: thefactor

Well said. Statistics can be used to support anyone’s perspective.

Of course, everyone has a bias. We all read a story and fill in the blanks with our own experiences.

These days, I try not to jump to conclusions because, several times, my own assumptions were wrong. And often the original story turns out to be wrong.

So, right now I’m questioning why a 54yo man would jump into a car and take off. Seems kind of old for a car thief. And he went only a 1/2 block before hitting traffic, so he had to see the traffic and know he wouldn’t get far. Was he a car thief? A kidnapper? Or was he mentally ill? Or was he drunk and just got into the wrong car? Or, maybe he was never really in the car... So many questions. Hope some video is found.


65 posted on 07/12/2019 7:41:28 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: csvset

Okay. So then, adding to the list of questions (in my post above):

Could he have been... a car thief? Kidnapper? Mentally ill? Drunk/tired (wrong car)? Never actually in the car?

Or just an opportunist?

Hope the police figure it out.


66 posted on 07/12/2019 7:52:38 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

All relevant and good questions. Perhaps a career criminal who had recently gotten out of prison? Perhaps he was high at the time of the crime? I’m sure there is video. Either from a local business or from handheld camera phones. It will be interesting to see how this develops. If it was straight-up street crime, I hope there is no prosecution.


67 posted on 07/12/2019 8:03:10 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: big truck

On another thread addressing this I asked where Daddy was. Good for him; there for his kids!


68 posted on 07/12/2019 8:45:15 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: big truck

Time to Outlaw Assault Fists?


69 posted on 07/12/2019 8:46:26 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: big truck

The new Democrat poster boy.


70 posted on 07/12/2019 11:23:43 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: thefactor; sushiman
. You think blacks constitute more than 12.5% of the population simply because you read more news stories about them and their high number of children.

I taught at an all-black high school in DC. When I asked students to break down race/ethnic composition of the U.S., the typical response was: 30% black, 15% jewish, 10% latin and the rest white. They were ever blown away by the actual numbers.

The lessons are twofold: 1) media representation/ awareness is quite out of sync with the actual population; and 2) people are quite insular, especially in urban USA.
71 posted on 07/12/2019 4:16:37 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The woman went inside the shop to visit her 25-year-old boyfriend who worked there but left her three young children inside the running vehicle, police said.

72 posted on 07/13/2019 12:54:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: thefactor; All
Perhaps a career criminal . . . Perhaps he was high at the time of the crime? I’m sure there is video. Either from a local business or from handheld camera phones.

If there were a prize, you'd win it. It turns out:

The man had a lengthy arrest record and drug problems. (Tests are being run to check for drugs in his system.) And, of course, video was posted on social media.

More info here: Police: Man dies after stealing car with kids inside, beaten by crowd

Glad the kids are all right.

73 posted on 07/13/2019 2:43:30 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: thefactor

The blame rests with the criminal - you’re right on that:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Car-Thief-Beaten-to-Death-Father-Mob-Group-Children-Philadelphia—512622361.html

“According to officials, Hood had at least 24 prior arrests and convictions.”


74 posted on 07/13/2019 7:20:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
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To: sushiman

If you had read an earlier post of mine you would have discovered that I have lived in Japan since 1985 .


Your world is still small if you espouse the beliefs that a woman having 3 children and no boyfriend or husband is rare. I could care less if you lived in 51 countries. Just because you lived in Japan doesn’t mean you got out very much in Japan and met people. How very naive of you to think location translates to an expanded world. It’s not location it is what you do at that location that expands your world. Apparently, you didn’t get out very much even in Japan to think like this.

I have spoken to people all over the world. People from Australia, Singapore, people from the Middle East and Europe, from South America to Eastern Europe. And yet, I have never been outside the USA. I have met many women around the world not married with 3 or more children. I have also met unmarried men who were raising 3 or more children and no wife. Like I said it doesn’t matter where you lived, it matters how you got out and met people. I reiterate you live in a small world. You lived in Japam...bah! You might as well have lived on the moon asfar as anyone cares.


75 posted on 07/14/2019 10:47:32 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: zaxtres

Are you dyslexic and autistic ?


76 posted on 07/15/2019 2:55:02 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: sushiman

77 posted on 07/15/2019 3:02:24 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: sushiman

I don’t follow anyone on here so your reference to an earlier post is stroking your own ego. You want to equate your living in Japan as “getting out” in the world. Wow man, you are really that small. You need to really get out sometime and see the world and meet people. Not everything is limited to your 50 square foot bedroom with a computer. Your ad hominem attack, by the way, is against the terms of this board and should be reported. But I am not that shallow. Maybe if you were reported and you were suspended you just might get out, but then again you just might migrate over to DU and find a better home there.


78 posted on 07/15/2019 8:12:01 PM PDT by zaxtres
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