Comments | sparkle_shortz: Keep Moving, Son

sparkle_shortz

Keep Moving, Son

Aug 04, 2005 19:17

Cops in Carroll Gardens are hustling schoolkids onto trains. Police call it protection. Parents call it harassment.
by Aina Hunter
August 2nd, 2005 11:02 AM from The Village Voice

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race, brooklyn, class

Comments 6

hoolifan August 5 2005, 03:23:34 UTC

That's the one... the only attacker they arrested was my neighbor.

I find the idea that one would need "pull" in the "neighborhood" to get a bunch of known gang members to be pursued by the police a little disturbing.

Reminds me so much of Rhode Island (I'm looking at you, Providence) it ain't even funny.

sparkle_shortz August 5 2005, 18:15:45 UTC

Are you suggesting Carroll Gardens is mobbed up? *shock*

whimsicalpops August 5 2005, 16:26:29 UTC

You place trust in the NYPD to protect your kids, that's a huge step, and they fuck it up from the start. Let's see, oh there are white gang members and oh there are kids of color, lets go after the kids of color. It's easier, they don't live here and I bet they ain't middle class nor have any clout or good parents who will complain.

They are also getting kick backs from the SBB's I bet.

sparkle_shortz August 5 2005, 18:15:00 UTC

The SBBs are only innocent young men! How dare you suggest they are a criminal organization!

whimsicalpops August 5 2005, 19:06:35 UTC

I love that this innocent group of "friends" have taken on the name of one of the oldest "Greaser Italian gang" names from the 50's. I wonder how many of their parents were in the SBB of old and who they work for now.

sparkle_shortz August 5 2005, 19:10:42 UTC

Hmmmmmmm.