Police are looking for the individual pictured above in connection with an armed robbery at the GameStop video game store on Broadway and 106th street on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
We’re awaiting more information on the robbery from NYPD.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips anonymously by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting 274637(CRIMES), then entering TIP577.
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Watch out – this could become another
case of Michael Brown.
Remember?
“Hands up – don’t shoot”.
The lie that became truth, that was
still a lie.
What does that have to do with this?
A young African American, committing a store robbery, being caught on camera and most likely will be ID’d by the cops.
The rest is still to be known.
That’s what it has to do with the Michael Brown story.
So if the cops find him and kill him, you’re saying it’s totes justified. You’re great, thanks.
Unfortunately for this kid he’s known to be armed. So if in a confrontation with police, he reaches into his pocket to take out a piece of candy, they may assume he’s reaching for a gun and shoot him. While tragic, when you at with fire you may get burned. Don’t commit armed robbery and you’ll be less likely to be shot by the cops.
UWS-
I guess it’s your mission to doubt whatever is written that does not jive 100% with your point of view.
All that I am saying is that he will be ID’d, will be confronted by the police, and it may end up badly, for him, for the cops, the community, and straight thinking.
Enjoy the great weather. We deserve this.
Yep, zeus, aware the “hands up don’t shoot” thing was a myth. Again, not remotely relevant in any way to this, but it’s your mission to educate, I guess.
Not quite.
If the cops find him and he does not resist being arrested, all is as it should be.
But, if the cops find him and he resists being arrested, and he fights with the cops, trying to get their gun, and then he gets shot and maybe killed, well, that’ all she wrote.
No “hands up – don’t shoot”.
That never happened, in case you didn’t know.
Wow – Hot times, summer in the city!. What a fool . A perfect picture of the perp
Wow, that’s clearer than my driver’s license picture!
He is very young. He will serve prison time when found. There, he will be victim to “cruel and unusual punishment” — (1) enslavement by a dominant prisoner perhaps (2) rape, and (3) exposure to diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and tuberculosis. We will look the other way.
In a year, he will have cost NYS $167,731 (data form 2013). When he gets out, he will have no future, but he will be qualified to commit much more professional and violent crimes from what he learned in a prison system that we don’t want to reform
This is why we should lock up people FOREVER after their second or third significant crime. FOREVER.
I agree – our prison system needs to be reformed and our youth need to be taught to be productive members of society. But you know what? We’re not there yet. So until we get it all figured out, this menace and others like him need to be taken off – and kept off – our streets. I happen to think it’s cruel and unusual when one has to fear for their life while simply trying to make a living behind a counter. Just ask Bubacarr Camera.
Paul RL, how do you teach the have-nots to be productive when there are no jobs for them in NYC and when the middle class, to which they could aspire, is being pushed out, most especially in New York?
Imposing cruel and unusual punishment to a cruel and unusual act makes two wrongs. It also erodes the Eight Amendment and international human rights principles.
And how sensible is it to heap $167,731 per year on one individual who will probably emerge (1) more violent than ever; (2) with diseases (including mental damage) to transmit to others, including any children that he begets; (3) with a lifelong need for costly social services, and (4) enhanced criminal skills? Multiply that per inmate; think of what we could have done for children with the money.
I don’t know of any answers. But I don’t see that we’re very busy trying to find some. I question our compassion and, sometimes, even our intelligence.
“no jobs for them in NYC”
Imagine how many more jobs there would be for our fellow New Yorkers and countrymen (i.e., U.S. citizens) if local businesses, wouldn’t be able to continue hiring illegal immigrants with impunity.
Have any efforts to rein-in such massive flagrant violations of the law– ones that are pernicious and unpatriotic, if not downright treasonous– ever been made by local office-holders such as Mark Levine or “local activists” such Batya Lewton? (The blatantly preening, manifestly ethnomasochist, open borders fanatics who, according to the recent entry here, are leading the campaign to have Donald Trump’s name removed from properties that he built and/or owns and/or is otherwise affiliated with.)
Not to suggest, mind you, that the legal immigration status quo is that much better. Just imagine, if you possibly can, how much unemployment rates and countless other problems would go down if we were to wake-up and drastically reduce legal immigration as well (esp. from places whose cultures are incompatible with ours), at least until we get our own house in order.
Perhaps the “have nots” should make a concerted effort to educate the youth. I’m sure there are plenty of ex cons who started out just like this kid and could let the community know the repercussions of a silly crime like this will have on their lives.
By stealing a few hundred bucks this kid has for all intents and purposes ruined his entire life. He will not be afforded the same opportunities that someone who is not a convicted felon will have.
He will need to work like a dog to make ends meet, or will take up a life of crime. It’s the responsibility of the parents, the family, religious leaders, community members to stop this type of behavior. If the community doesn’t look out for its youth, why should the government or others? It’s truly a sad state of affairs and spending upwards of $170k per year is criminal in itself.
Couldn’t agree more, Sam.
Which is why I specifically mentioned family, religious leaders, community members in ADDITION to the parents. As the old saying goes “it takes a village”.
Yet, it’s the responsibility of parents… But, Sam, they don’t have responsible parents.
Agreed, which is why I said, “It’s the responsibility of the parents, the family, religious leaders, community members to stop this type of behavior. “
A community can’t take care of a child from the cradle. You need a family for that.
Who cares how young he is? He made a choice to commit a violent crime. Get these people off the streets as fast as possible, before an innocent person is killed. We need to stop catering to the lowest common denominator in society.
Andy, you need to care, because after he is destroyed irreparable in prison, he will be more violent than ever and have no way of surviving except by crime or social support service.
… and you need to care about his age, because he will have a long career ahead of him after he gets out of prison.
Sam, we have broached a subject that is the subject of books and books by educators, criminologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologist.
It can’t be analyzed, I’m afraid, in the limitations of this forum. But if you know a teacher in a New York City public school, her experiences would be a resource for you.
I agree 100%. My mother taught in NYC (Brooklyn and Queens) for 30 years. her experiences taught me a great deal. There are plenty of responsible parents out there with shitty kids. There’s also a great deal of very good kids with shitty parents that don’t receive the necessary support and wind up hanging out with questionable crowds.
I wasn’t trying to be argumentative, my point is that in order for this type of behavior to be changed, it will take everyone in the community.
I know that you are not trying to be argumentative, Sam. Those “villages” that take care of all children are within very cohesive societies. Diversity doesn’t create a “village”.
D.R.
Wow!
I thought I have free time to read and comment.
You put me to shame.
Even Bruce has less time than you.
You make some good points, and some
not so good, to my thinking any way.
Anyone who commits armed robbery,
regardless of age, should be aware of
what will happen once they get caught,
and this one will get caught.
Spending all the money to keep them in
jail is an outrage, but what other
option is there, other than the chain
gang, doing hard work for the state, highway, parks, whatever.
I the long run crime does not pay.
The ones who commit the crimes should
pay the price.
I’ll bear the accusation that I have hogged this story to say:
If all of us refused to serve on a jury in a criminal case because of the above, it might force prison reform.
If you are interested, Zeus, in investigating proposals toward more humane treatment of prisoners, below is the link to an article that I found in a brief search this morning.
I doubt that it’s the definitive word, but I found some hope in it.
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/responsible-prison-reform
So, we should express no outrage that a woman is executed for adultery, a man’s hand severed for stealing or, in the past, a black man is lynched for looking at a white woman – because they were all “aware of what [would] happen once they [got] caught”.