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Phila. police make first 'flash mob' arrest
Phila. Inquirer ^ | 13 June 09 | Robert Moran

Posted on 06/13/2009 6:32:30 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland

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To: ladyjane
Was this a hate crime?

Now that's funny.

21 posted on 06/13/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Libertarian4Bush

Lets see the messages, lets interogate the suspected perps as to their views of “others”, let us stop the hate. The left is a tottering old dried up worthless grouping of losers that you mistakenly try to prop up so you can seem shrewd and contemporary with your MSNBC like response.


22 posted on 06/13/2009 8:33:10 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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To: pandoraou812

speaking of social networking sites. “Flashmob”... a new way to creat chaos and murder in the street.


23 posted on 06/13/2009 8:35:13 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: csvset

The race of the perpetrator should not be an issue. If you want to generalize, then generalize based on culture. Then you won’t be indicting many fine and innocent human beings.


24 posted on 06/13/2009 8:53:12 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

That is sickening. I don’t understand this need to follow what others are doing. I can remember my mom saying if so & so jumps off a bridge are you going to follow? Shaking my head again.


25 posted on 06/13/2009 8:53:37 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: The Duke

In todays Obama world, skin color is always an issue. Always.


26 posted on 06/13/2009 8:54:48 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
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To: All
Apparently the cops were slow to get on the case....

A not very complementary follow-up from a local paper.

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20090611_Ronnie_Polaneczky_.html

27 posted on 06/13/2009 8:58:35 AM PDT by az_gila (AZ - need less democrats - one Governor down... more to go.)
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To: AAABEST

Looks like Harvard Law School material to me.

28 posted on 06/13/2009 9:05:50 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: The Duke

Race shouldn’t be an issue, but should the situation been reversed, (white mob, black victim), you can bet the “white” angle would have been trumpeted.


29 posted on 06/13/2009 9:11:48 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Most of the freepers never heard about this..let alone the average American...and obozo has given these YOUTS the green light by not prosecuting the thug black Panthers.

The fact is this was posted on FR the day after it happened. The only thing is the state run media buried it shortly after. The only FReepers who missed it are the ones who don't get on every day. Your main point is taken though. There was an important event that took place in November that has led minorities(excuse the term)to believe, and rightly so it seems, that they can do just about anything they want without fear of going to jail.

30 posted on 06/13/2009 9:13:11 AM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

I PRAISE Freep for informing us all...I only meant to suggest that even with such a wonderful website that really a small number of Americans get to see...it is easy to miss these stories if the MSM media refuses to highlight or even, talk about them.

I am now more convinced than ever, that until conservatives find a way to get even such basic info out to the American people, there is no way at all to ever win elections. The combination of the public’s ignorance and lack of true facts will win out EVERY time.


31 posted on 06/13/2009 9:19:22 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (h)
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To: Mac from Cleveland
Ah, fondly remembering Rizzo’s Phily.

He had special squads of cops who were all over 6’ 200 lbs, and had black leather boots and clubs a yard long. He's send them to strikes and demonstrations. Be good or get the sh!t kicked out of yous.

32 posted on 06/13/2009 9:22:31 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: junta
that you mistakenly try to prop up so you can seem shrewd and contemporary with your MSNBC like response.

ummmm... I really hope you don't think you're talking to ME, 'cause if so, you're portraying yourself as being a bit... unhinged.

best I can tell (based on my, uh, "interrogations" of some teens), there was no targeted malicious intent apart from unrest and vandalism.

33 posted on 06/13/2009 9:54:10 AM PDT by Libertarian4Bush
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To: csvset
Race shouldn’t be an issue, but should the situation been reversed, (white mob, black victim), you can bet the “white” angle would have been trumpeted.

Absolutely - but that's all the race hustlers trying to make an easy buck from the ignorant. I'm assuming you're not a Jesse Jackson (or some arbitrary member of the media)?

If you start generalizing based on race all you do is dilute your message and open yourself for counter attack. Also, you end up disparaging a large number of very decent people to make a point against one or more specific scumbags.

Personally, I don't discriminate even a little bit based on race - but I discriminate ENORMOUSLY based on CULTURE. And, one has no trouble at all picking these animals that subscribe to this "gangsta" culture out of the crowd based on how they dress, body language, how they speak, etc.

34 posted on 06/13/2009 10:18:09 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: Libertarian4Bush

Sorry, I have little respect for the boring and predictable, you are right. As for the second part you have no clue because no one has asked the little darlings a thing.


35 posted on 06/13/2009 11:28:33 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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To: junta

oh, go take a long walk off a short cliff, pal. your act wears thin awful quick.


36 posted on 06/14/2009 5:02:17 AM PDT by Libertarian4Bush
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