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Like you implied; it isn't a great thing to do to your neighborhood. Stores can close due to the damage and higher insurance rates. When your neighbors one had employment and an easy store to shop at can become history as those stores move to 'safer' neighborhoods.
Insurance companies do charge higher insurance rates in a less safe areas, one of the many reasons business opt not to open in these area's.
These kids are hurting themselves in the longer run but they will cry there is no opportunity for them.
The police should not have any difficulty catching this group. If you notice several of them were holding their phones; this was staged on the social media and it is just a matter of time until the police have video taken by the perpetrators.
Like you implied; it isn't a great thing to do to your neighborhood. Stores can close due to the damage and higher insurance rates. When your neighbors one had employment and an easy store to shop at can become history as those stores move to 'safer' neighborhoods.
The police will come under pressure to drop the investigation because it will be deemed racist.
Philly's police chief is fine, but the mayor and the DA.... well, they'd put so many legal roadblocks up to these rioters being punished that the police will probably not pursue it. Walgreen's might get paid for the damages though in a city kick back.
The joke in Philly is that if you get charged with a crime and go before a judge you get TWO defense attorneys. Your defense lawyer and the prosecutor.
When I was 15 we all wanted....well, recreation drugs. I was told to take the subway north to the middle of the bad area (allegheny and broad) and go to a "white owned" pharmacy and ask for ANYTHING OTC.
I walked in and said "100 Qualludes please?".......and the rest? Yep, they overcharged me for them - something like 4.99
My cousins are pharmacists in Philly and they actually owned one - and then, after that, worked in many others. They were my first friends who carried weapons. Basically, no one carried in those days, but since they protected the "good stuff", it was a MUST.
They never had to use their piece - they told me when they saw someone casing them out, they'd just gently tap their holster to show the potential perp that they were ready.
Ah, Philly - the only place I ever saw a gun drawn in anger...over a parking space (a white guy) at 22nd and Samson.
As another aside, wife graduated from Overbook High "The Brook".....you could count those with her skin tone in the entire school of 4,000 on two hands. She was there when MLK and Malcom X were shot, etc.
Her mom was an attendance lady there for 30 years.
Neither of them were ever touched. But my wife has the ultimate street sense.....eyes in the back of her head and everywhere else.
I have lots more Philly stories.....my roots! The water ice is divine!
Oh, my semi-famous uncle was City Solicitor.....I think he was in when one of the MOVE shootouts went down. He, as with everyone else I know who ever entered politics, was cured of his desire after one term.
When I was 15 we all wanted....well, recreation drugs. I was told to take the subway north to the middle of the bad area (allegheny and broad) and go to a "white owned" pharmacy and ask for ANYTHING OTC.
I walked in and said "100 Qualludes please?".......and the rest? Yep, they overcharged me for them - something like 4.99
My cousins are pharmacists in Philly and they actually owned one - and then, after that, worked in many others. They were my first friends who carried weapons. Basically, no one carried in those days, but since they protected the "good stuff", it was a MUST.
They never had to use their piece - they told me when they saw someone casing them out, they'd just gently tap their holster to show the potential perp that they were ready.
Ah, Philly - the only place I ever saw a gun drawn in anger...over a parking space (a white guy) at 22nd and Samson.
As another aside, wife graduated from Overbook High "The Brook".....you could count those with her skin tone in the entire school of 4,000 on two hands. She was there when MLK and Malcom X were shot, etc.
Her mom was an attendance lady there for 30 years.
Neither of them were ever touched. But my wife has the ultimate street sense.....eyes in the back of her head and everywhere else.
I have lots more Philly stories.....my roots! The water ice is divine!
Philly's police chief is fine, but the mayor and the DA.... well, they'd put so many legal roadblocks up to these rioters being punished that the police will probably not pursue it. Walgreen's might get paid for the damages though in a city kick back.
The joke in Philly is that if you get charged with a crime and go before a judge you get TWO defense attorneys. Your defense lawyer and the prosecutor.
In the old daze we called this all "Hot Town, Summer in the City"
This happens in Chicago, as well. We also have major problems with these idiots going into stores in groups, picking up a bunch of merchandise, and walking out.
The joke in Philly is that if you get charged with a crime and go before a judge you get TWO defense attorneys. Your defense lawyer and the prosecutor.
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