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In my experiences groups of teens (regardless of their racial background) don't just come to a neighborhood they are from just because. People can travel wherever they want, but often times groups will travel to more upscale areas to cause problems. Why I don't know exactly. Maybe someone else can answer that one?
These teens should consider themselves lucky that they were not executed by NYPD. It seems folks in east coast and south love police brutality against minorities.
For ages NYPD along with other local police forces have used "profiling" if you will to determine when a person or persons are likely to be up to something.
A group of black teens wondering around Rosebank or Tottenville back in the day would be viewed with suspicion, and rightly so. No blacks lived out there and unless you had a valid reason (invited to a party or something) why would you be walking around out there?
As the other posted stated it worked both ways. Whites walking/driving around certain parts of upper Manhattan (especially in cars with out of state plates) were most always looking for drugs or other sorts of trouble. Again why else would they be driving/wandering around mainly if not totally Latino/Hispanic an or AA areas of Washington Heights especially late at night? Looking at the architecture?
Washing to Heights is mostly Dominican but there are many black and mulatto Dominicans living in Washington Heights. There are also some Hasidic Jews nearby!
I like threads like this because they show what people here really think. Park Slope is around prospect park. One of the few parks in a dense borough. So should black teens now not walk in park slope at all even if they are coming/going from park or on their way to subway/bus? I guess only white people have the privilege of walking public areas in this city without immediately being considered a perp...
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Washing to Heights is mostly Dominican but there are many black and mulatto Dominicans living in Washington Heights. There are also some Hasidic Jews nearby!
I don't want to see a group of black or white teens in my neighborhood lol
Yeah I know what you mean. It's more so the group thing that bothers me. Not necessarily the skin color. Although I'm not going to lie, if there's a group of black males looking sketchy just standing around looking like they want trouble, I'll probably do everything in my power to avoid confrontation. A group of white guys is only scary if they are tatted up.
I forget who said it but it was some celebrity not too long ago that said we all have some sort of prejudice. And I agree with that. It shouldn't be that way but it really is.
And before anyone goes off on me for being racist, I literally have every type of blood a person can have...from Irish to black American slave blood to Chinese. I respect those who respect me.
If the account in the article is right then I don't agree with that approach. The cops could have asked hey where are you guys headed, etc. Without "kicking them out" of the neighborhood. Its all about approach and how you talk to people. Alot of this type of crap would be avoided with tact.
The lady should of took them in or at least let them hang out on her brownstone stoop for a bit. But then again that would have kept her out of the papers for an unwarranted article.
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