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Anne Allred

By adamg - 5/31/11 - 8:03 am

Anne Allred at Channel 7 tweeted this morning:

1,000 teens show up on Carson Beach to watch rival gangs fight. I just can't get over that.

Really? Word got out on the street a major showdown was on and everybody dropped what they were doing and rushed right over to Carson Beach?

I don't buy it. There is no Cyrus of Boston gangs Pied Pipering everybody to a war council.

So why would 1,000 teens show up at Carson Beach? Because it was hot. And a holiday. And you can get there by subway.

Were there troublemakers getting into fights? Yes. Did a lot of the kids stand around and watch? You bet. Does Boston have a gang problem? Yes.

But when some moron runs onto the field at Fenway, we don't accuse all 35,000 people in the stands of being complicit, even though a lot of them are cheering him on. We shouldn't demonize every last person on that beach yesterday. Where is the outrage about the two young men who were shot to death and the four others who survived getting shot over the weekend?

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