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gutterbrain73 t1_j9p631c wrote

This is nothing new, been going on since people were stealing "Jordans" years ago.

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malganis12 t1_j9pf6r1 wrote

A bunch of armed men pulling up on a middle school when school gets out and robbing the students should be bigger news. It's insane what people are getting comfortable with in this city; the boiled frog.

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Museman2112 t1_j9pjevw wrote

Happened outside of the school I worked at last year too

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aup123 t1_j9pswn4 wrote

Lets see if this gets the same victim blaming reaction like the Canada goose robberies.

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AhhAGoose t1_j9se819 wrote

Who robs middle schoolers? Like middle school isn’t hard enough

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spectredirector t1_j9tf2gy wrote

To add some context, in the late 1980s stealing shoes and jackets was common place in DCPS. Like actually in school. Yes weapons were involved.

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pandemictechnologist t1_j9tfc41 wrote

You know who this never happened to? The kids who customized their shoes. Kids today should put their favorite patches on the sneaks with heavy duty fabric glue - looks cool, and thieves won’t want them after that

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CaptainObvious110 t1_j9ti2mx wrote

People were definitely getting hurt for coats and shoes back in the 90's and even as a child I thought it was dumb to keep wearing that clothing.

Fast forward nearly 30 years later and I still don't wear clothes like that. I actually forgot how I got like that but this post reminded me of it.

Also, people use the term "victim blaming" entirely too much. No matter what a person does it considered wrong to say it's wrong and that's wrong in itself.

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[deleted] t1_j9tp5na wrote

TL;DW: This happened at the Eliot-Hine Middle School in DC. Four men in a car pulled up outside the school. At least one of the criminals exited the vehicle with a gun and carried out an armed robbery on the premises of the school (apparently outside the building but on school property). They stole several pairs of expensive shoes, taking them right off the student owners' feet. No description of the perpetrators was provided, but anyone with information about the crime should call the police.

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cptjeff t1_j9tuu9w wrote

There are people who are fundamentally incapable of functioning in society and should never be allowed to breathe free air ever again.

If you would threaten to kill a middle schooler to take their shoes, you are one of those people.

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