Friday, February 10, 2012
Crime Atlanta Police ID two of three suspects in Pittsburgh attack
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Atlanta Police say they've identified and are actively seeking two of the three suspects who videotaped themselves attacking a young gay man outside a convenience store in Atlanta's Pittsburgh neighborhood.
APD Spokesman Carlos Campos said police are declining to release the names of the suspects who were featured on the video which went viral earlier this week and sparked national headlines. But he was happy to remind us that Crime Stoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for information that leads to their arrest.
"If anyone would like to give us a hand we will welcome it," he says.
Pittsburgh residents on Wednesday apologized to Brandon White, the 20-year-old victim in the video, and have rallied since the attack to shut down the convenience store at 1029 McDaniel Street. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard told residents last night that his office will attempt to designate the business as a "public nuisance" and shut it down. White, who'd lived in the historic beleaguered neighborhood for only eight months before he was jumped outside the store, didn't sustain any serious injuries but told reporters at a Wednesday press conference that's he been staying with a cousin elsewhere since the attack.
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Yes, it's a building selling you groceries that's the public nuisance, not the shooting and beating and trapping outside it.
The real public nuisance here is a public that isn't willing to call APD when they see a crime, and an APD that acts like thy don't realize that it's a high crime corner in spite of the calls they do get.
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The idea that the business owner can be targeted because of the actions of people outside his establishment is highly offensive to my sense of justice. I think the idea that closing the market will reduce crime in the neighborhood is a logical fallacy.
So, you can't get food in these food deserts, which of course is systematic and institutional racism, but the one store that does sell Twinkies and strawberry soda gets targeted as a nuisance. This is why we can't have fresh produce.
Chances are this is not the first time that store has been a crime scene. It's also likely the owner of that store does absolutely nothing to deter assholes like those in the video from hanging out in front of the store and menacing decent folk.
But where else are people going to find their chicken wings, NY style?
btw, if anyone is still looking:
http://www.myspace.com/rasheedlowe1/photos
Hey hold on there folks. The APD has proven to be very proactive about crime in that area. They parked a police car next to the store for a couple hours the other day! That should clean up the area.
If only crime was a like some kind of grandmother living alone, or a leather bar on ponce. Then APD could lick it.
I agree with YRamone.
Of course the primary problem is poverty that begets thugs/drug dealers/prostitutes that hang out in and in front of these stores but the secondary problem, the one that is much more controllable, is that the property owners allow it by not intervening. Why do some stores in some areas of town have derelicts hanging out and others don't? It's not magic....the owner sends a message (or not, cuz they're getting something out of it).
This is not unlike an absentee landlord that allows slum tenants to terrorize a neighborhood with drugs, violence and prostitution. S/he can say, "look it's violence and poverty...I can't solve that...I'm just trying to make a living." But this neglects what they can control....which tenants live in that house. If enough people exert this control it sends a message to those who abuse society to shape up or ship out. Most of them unfortunately, just choose to "ship out."
Well I know for a fact that the police in Zone 3 don't care about thugs ,drug dealers and pimps and their dirty ass crack hoes. I called major Ernest N. Finley more then 7 times in a week to show him pic of crack dealers counting crack rocks in hand .... I even had info on the Dill Ave crew who did smash and grabs . I had to get Claire Farley and a undercover police to come to watch the drugs being sold..... plus I went to the safety meetings and showed the city council members that I have over 1000 movie clips .... I called out Ernest N. Finley name and said that he never returns phone calls .... and all the neighbors was afraid of the punk ass thugs
I understand people might be afraid to get involved but when you do get involved where is the police ? I will add that the city of Atlanta had dirty cops working for them ...
I've gotta agree with Zed, except for one thing; the store may not be the biggest cause of crime in the area, but it still plays a potential role. The store owner shouldn't be the only one held responsible though; just like you said Zed, an uncaring police force and a no snitch mentality community are all to blame. Yet those two points go hand in hand at times. As for the store, the owner could be harboring criminals or criminal activities, could be a drug front etc... unless we hear from people who LIVE in that neighborhood, we may never know the whole picture. They're off to a good start closing the store, but now the community needs to step up, which it seems that they are even if just baby steps (which is awesome!) and the police need to make their presence more well known in the area and reach out to the community. It may take a lot of time, but hopefully it'll work out in the end.
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