Bridge Street - large crowd altercation (Huntsville, Centre: condo, stores, mold)

[NoleFanHSV]

Originally Posted by chadgates

^^ I agree^^

Monaco should have known better than to even show this film.
Since they didn't, they should have at least had the sense to enforce their own "no minors without adult supervision" rule.

IMO, a double fail on the part of Monaco.

Does Monaco even have that rule? Most if not all theaters do big business from the teenagers, and many times parents drop their kids off to see the movies. Of course, the parents assume the kids or teens will behave.

I'm not sure this type of incident would not have happened even if there were parents there to supervise. Heck, they could have even made the situation worse.

[chadgates]

Originally Posted by NoleFanHSV

Does Monaco even have that rule? Most if not all theaters do big business from the teenagers, and many times parents drop their kids off to see the movies. Of course, the parents assume the kids or teens will behave.

I'm not sure this type of incident would not have happened even if there were parents there to supervise. Heck, they could have even made the situation worse.

Pretty certain Bridge Street itself has the no minors rule.

[harry chickpea]

Originally Posted by chadgates

^^ I agree^^

Monaco should have known better than to even show this film.
Since they didn't, they should have at least had the sense to enforce their own "no minors without adult supervision" rule.

IMO, a double fail on the part of Monaco.

Again, Monaco had no choice to drop the film unless it wanted to incur the wrath of the distributor and lose other product from that distributor. There are only a handful of major distributors and such loss of product can be disastrous financially.

There are techniques that can mitigate or eliminate problems like this, but those too can create ill-will with Hollywood bean counters.

[preguntas]

I love my NETFLIX, and the people I choose to be around me.

[Justacoolguy]

Originally Posted by Nlambert

So you DID notice that I DIDN'T mention race, right?

Running is running, no matter who does it. I'd be willing to wager that the majority of these teenagers were involved in some way whether it were playing instigator, spectator, or offender. Otherwise, they would have left the scene the minute the fight broke out. I'd bet some did.... but the majority didn't and ended up involving themselves (either directly or indirectly) in this fiasco.

A movie gives no one a good reason to act like some chose to act..... inability to control themselves (or the choice not to leave the scene immediately) ended up getting some tased, sprayed, etc... What this tells me is that these teens are lacking the reasoning skillset which would have de-escalated the situation very quickly. Actually, thinking on it, I don't really understand how a movie could get people's adrenaline up to the point that they come out of the movie and act like hoodlums to begin with. And before anyone mentions it, yes I've watched fighting movies that had me really pumped up when it was over. However, I have never fought over it. I enjoy it as it was meant to be enjoyed and move along.

With that being said, and racial tensions being fairly high right now with everything going on in the media, common sense should have kicked in before the fighting broke out and made these teens realize that the outcome of the fighting could only lead to two outcomes (of which they received the more lenient of the two outcomes). Instead, what the media now gets to report is yet ANOTHER incidence of a crowd of black people disturbing the peace. (I'll wait for someone to call me racist for mentioning it)

Stop defending something you didnt do. I will say it. Yes its the black kids!!!! Im sorry but enough with this politically correct bullcrap. It is what it is. These black kids are taught to be afraid of the police or to act belligerantly in defiance of authority. NWA was a celebration of crack cocaine, naked women, shooting at cops, and terrorizing civilians. I grew up in that era. They were not heros or prophets. You put guys like them or Mike Brown on a pedestal you get mob violence. Just last night a guy pulls a gun on cops and gets shot in St Louis. Now they are protesting. What in the world is wrong with these morons? You pull a gun on cops you get shot. Period. You think you have the right to threaten cops????

[Nlambert]

Originally Posted by Tourian

I wasn't particularly answering just to you. There are people here who think only black kids run from cops. I think at a fight or altercation or somebody selling woof tickets after a showing of Straight Outta Compton at a mall theater would believe that if cops are called they JUST MIGHT target the black kids, similar to that pool party in McKinney, TX. In my example of street racing, everybody ran not because they thought they'd get shot but because they knew they might get a ticket, get their car impounded - or at the very least detained. Sometimes the cops just show up and zip tie everybody and take everybody downtown to sort it out. That's not something most teens want to go through even if they are squeaky clean and their only "crime" is hanging out to watch some two knuckleheads "get into it."



Yeah, that's what I and others have been saying. Majority of them spectators. Maybe HSV will be smart enough to have cops patrolling before such crowds gather, lest BS go the same way of MSM.

Then they shouldn't have been standing around spectating. I don't know if you've ever been in or around an altercation, but often times a larger crowd will further fuel the people fighting to fight more. Especially in a situation with teens because they don't want to tarnish their "reputation" amongst their peers by backing down or losing a fight. Simply put, someone calls them out and they're going to show off. The only way to avoid the possibility of being lumped in with the bad apples is not to put yourself in the barrel with them.

I've only been in 2-3 fights in my lifetime (as a teenager), and those were ones that I was unable (after many attempts) to remove myself from and it became a matter of self preservation. Now, if I'm anywhere near an area where a fight is about to break out I take my wife and kids and we leave. I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I may have to get into an altercation if I know it can be avoided.

[LCTMadison]

My son is 17 and goes to Bridgestreet all the time with his friends and on dates. Unsupervised....because what 17 year old wants Mom and Dad tagging along on a date? And guess what? They don't act like a bunch of hoodlems. They have all been raised how to behave in public, and we have never had a problem.

Its sad that really good kids who just like to go to BS for dinner, movie, etc with their friends who KNOW how to act in public because that is how they have been raised now will not be able to because of a bunch of thugs.

[Justacoolguy]

^^^^^^^^^^ This

[Nlambert]

Originally Posted by Justacoolguy

Stop defending something you didnt do. I will say it. Yes its the black kids!!!! Im sorry but enough with this politically correct bullcrap. It is what it is. These black kids are taught to be afraid of the police or to act belligerantly in defiance of authority. NWA was a celebration of crack cocaine, naked women, shooting at cops, and terrorizing civilians. I grew up in that era. They were not heros or prophets. You put guys like them or Mike Brown on a pedestal you get mob violence. Just last night a guy pulls a gun on cops and gets shot in St Louis. Now they are protesting. What in the world is wrong with these morons? You pull a gun on cops you get shot. Period. You think you have the right to threaten cops????

You're absolutely correct. I'm not defending anything..... because I have seen other races do things like this from time to time.... but never to the extreme that some of these folks are taking it now. I try not to stereotype because it's unfair to the upstanding people who DON'T fit that mold but it gets difficult when it's all you see on the news. It also gets difficult when you hear some black people making derogatory comments about hating white people or when you experience utter disrespect from another race because they don't like you. I try to treat everyone equally, and rarely bring up race.

I wasn't going to mention this before, but Sunday myself and my wife and kids decided to stop in at Logan's on University for lunch while we were in town. When we walked in the door, we noticed that we were the ONLY white people in the building (including the staff). There were literally 10-11 tables clean and empty. The hostess told us we had a 10-20 minute wait. We thought that seemed kind of odd given the open tables but sat down anyhow to wait. Some black families came in after us and all were seated immediately. I noticed an open table in the bar area and asked if we could sit there as it was typically first come first serve. She promptly (and rudely) told me no. Another couple came in as I was walking back to my seat and asked to sit there and she told them it was FCFS. We were livid and ended up leaving the restaurant and finding lunch somewhere else.

This kind of experience I noted above does make it more difficult not to stereotype, but I still do my best to give everyone benefit of the doubt before making a judgment call.

[Justacoolguy]

Google white girl bleed alot. There is a serious problem in this country right now that no one wants to talk about openly. Everyone knows the name Mike Brown but no one knows Channon Christian or Christopher Newsome.