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Kids, 14 and 15, charged with gunpoint beating, robbery in Allston
By adamg on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 2:31pm
A pair of teens, one from Hyde Park, one from Dorchester, were arrested yesterday in Brighton for an armed holdup at 20 Rugg Rd. in Allston, Boston Police report. A third suspect remains at large.
Police say the trio - one wearing a "Vote Tito" shirt - beat their victim with a gun, then took his backpack around 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Police say they were aided in their search for the suspects by both witnesses and a video of the attack. One suspect was stopped at 64 Hano St., and taken back to D-14 kicking and screaming. Another was spotted at Cambridge Street and Denby Road:
After a long sustained chase and search, the suspect was located hiding in the back of a storage shed in the back of a house on Hollis Place.
Both were charged with armed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
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Tito Jackson
He has the endorsement of the Pistol-Whipping Thugs union?
Police say the trio - one
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. Here's a test case.
What were you doing at age 14?
I was doing my homework and mowing people's lawns.
Throw these kids' parents in jail.
Really?
If they aren't already in jail.
I'd get the whole story before saying something like that. They may have asked for help with behavioral health issues and gotten the brush off by those who chose to blame behaviorally challenged kids on parenting. They might work three jobs to pay the rent - and putting productive citizens in jail might make it likely that any other kids will get into the same sort of thuggery.
Although I have to say that if one of my teens was involved in something like that, jail would be the safest place for him to be.
I Don't Know About You...
... but I knew it was wrong to pistol-whip someone and steal their stuff by the time I was, oh, six or seven; maybe earlier. And never mind the parents (unless they were actively teaching their kids to do such stuff.) Any exposure to enough TV, movies, etc., would have, IMHO, put it into their heads that it was not the thing to do and expect to remain out of jail.
No excuse, as far as I'm concerned, and we can leave the parents out of it. We don't know them, or what they did in raising their kids. All we know for sure is what the little a-holes (allegedly) did.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Making their families proud
I feel bad for parents of kids like this. That is unless the parents help foster this type of mentality. In all, it's a sad situation.
Good work BPD
For working the incident, apprehending the perps and writing up such a descriptive report.
Wiretapping?
"a video of the attack."
Don't the Boston Police consider videotaping without consent to be "wiretapping"?
No. First, nothing was
No. First, nothing was 'tapped.' Second, if it was illegal, then all video shot in public without signed consent forms would be illegal. Needless to say, it's not, any more than taking photos in public is illegal.
Technically you are incorrect
In Mass, both parties must consent to audio taping, otherwise it is considered wiretapping under current law. The police have used this poorly written law to harass and arrest people that were taping them openly and in public. Clearly the law should reflect what you said, but unfortunately it doesn't. It's only enforced when cops don't like being taped. See below:
http://www.universalhub.com/2011/aclu-simon-glik-d...
It wasn't mentioned in the
It wasn't mentioned in the BPD account of it, but does anyone know if a firearm was recovered?