Posted on 04/05/2010 5:03:17 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Scores of gangbangers marauded through Times Square and nearby streets last night, storming businesses and harrassing pedestrians as three people were shot in possibly related violence. Hundreds of cops struggled to disperse the youths. One man was shot in the ankle on West 41st Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Early this morning two people were shot at 34th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Their conditions were not immediately known. Twenty young men were seen fleeing the scene. * * * At least 30 people, including seven juveniles, were arrested by early this morning. In past years, the NYPD and businesses have beefed up security in the area on Easter Sunday, which has become known in certain circles as "Gang Initiation Day."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
COMING SOON to your town - not just for New York City anymore - LAWLESS RIOTING!
Anybody know the race of the perpetrators and the race of the victims?
Amish
yep, its going to get worse....and spread across the country....just start shooting them and maybe it can be nipped in the bed as barney would say...
Are we in for a long-hot summer, circa 1965?
The rascally Amish - - How long, then, until the Reverend Al Sharpton and Reverend Jesse Jackson condemn the violence?
Heh....and I get ridiculed for carrying a revolver in NYC.... Shoot and keep moving.
Ah, the post-racial society we were promised. Nirvana!
Oh, we have already had that here. They end up tasing a few thugs, shootijng a couple with rubber bullets, then we get to spend nine years with the DOJ crawling up the City’s anus, pay a few dozen “civil rights” attorneys a few million dollars, and then settle on a protocol with the DOJ that requires the police to fill out six pages of paperwork every time they ask a street peddler to move along.
Oh, we know what that’s all about here in Cincinnati.
Not Amish -
Democrat voter registration drive... ie, ACORN.
More like “post-society racialism”.
“COMING SOON to your town - not just for New York City anymore - LAWLESS RIOTING!”
If it comes to my County, it won’t be the Sheriff’s Dept. they will have to worry about. We have hundreds of armed Rednecks who are more than willing to “correct” the problem.
“...not just for new York City anymore-Lawless Rioting...”
Not lawless rioting. The future cadre has to practice control of the streets. Dontcha know?
IMHO
Well according to a reader comment who said he was there it was suspect(s) usual.
July 26-July 27
There is some discussion that the deployment of troops incited more violence, although the riot ended within 48 hours of their deployment. The discussion might hinge on the type of troop used in various locations. Most of the Michigan National Guard were white, while many of the Federal Army troops were black. As a result, the National Guard troops faced a more violent reaction when deployed to the inner city. The National Guard and the Federal Army troops were engaged in firefights with locals, resulting in deaths both to locals and the troops. Of the 12 people shot and killed by troops, only one was by a Federal soldier, possibly because the Federal troops were ordered not to load their weapons except under the direct order of an officer. Indeed, the actions of the National Guard troops were called into question in the Cyrus Vance report.[17]
Tanks[18] and machine guns[19] were used in the effort to keep the peace. Film footage and photos that were viewed internationally showed a city on fire, with tanks and combat troops in firefights in the streets, thus sealing Detroit’s reputation for decades to come.
By Thursday, July 27, order had returned to the city to the point where ammunition was taken from the National Guardsmen stationed in the riot area, and bayonets ordered sheathed. Troop withdrawal began on Friday, July 28, the day of the last major fire in the riot. The Army troops were completely withdrawn by Saturday, July 29.
The Detroit riot ignited similar problems elsewhere. National Guardsmen or state police were deployed in five other cities: Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, and Toledo, Ohio. Disturbances were also reported in more than two dozen cities.
An estimated 10,000 participated, with an estimated 100,000 gathering to watch. Thirty-six hours of rioting later, 43 were dead, 10 of them white. More than 7,200 were arrested, mostly black. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, lamented upon surveying the damage, “Today we stand amidst the ashes of our hopes. We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”[20]
[edit] Death toll
Over the period of five days, forty-three people died, of whom 33 were black. The other damages were calculated as follows:
467 injured: 182 civilians, 167 Detroit police officers, 83 Detroit firefighters, 17 National Guard troops, 16 State Police officers, 3 U.S. Army soldiers.
7,231 arrested: 6,528 adults, 703 juveniles; The youngest, 4; the oldest, 82. Half of those arrested had no criminal record.
2,509 stores looted or burned, 388 families homeless or displaced and 412 buildings burned or damaged enough to be demolished. Dollar losses from arson and looting ranged from $40 million to $80 million.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
Any first-hand information you can add to this?
Easter Sunday = “Gang Initiation Day”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/times_sq_riot_NsfFMtmqon1PC09nmFX8UP
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