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Three African-American students who were waiting for a school bus in Rochester, New York were arrested on Wednesday morning when police officer told them to “disperse,” even though witnesses said they did nothing wrong.
According to WROC, basketball coach Jacob Scott had arranged for a school bus to pick up the boys to take them to a scrimmage on a day when school was closed.
A police report claimed that the boys were blocking “pedestrian traffic while standing on a public sidewalk…preventing free passage of citizens walking by and attempting to enter and exit a store…Your complainant gave several lawful clear and concise orders for the group to disperse and leave the area without complaince [sic].”
But the students and the coach dispute the police version of events.
“We didn’t do nothing,” student Raliek Redd explained. “We was just trying to go to our scrimmage.” “We was just waiting for our bus and he started arrested us,” student Wan’Tauhjs Weathers added.
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(2,436 posts)ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Lots of cities have rules against 3 or more teenagers loitering in public places. If they were all dressed in similar colors, that would be even more suspicious.
[font color=white]Sometimes I just have to toss someone a straight line.[/font]
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)especially after they told the cop exactly why they were standing there.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)But then the entire point of my post was that they probably harassed these kids on the assumption they were gang-bangers rather than in response to the "knock-out game" nonsense. Given that racism is the norm for police departments, then their being Black undoubtedly attributes to the assumption.
I wasn't commenting on that. I was commenting on the knock-out game aspect.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)Probably cause for sure, I guess.
They have photos and videos at that link. Go have a look.
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)If I put some yokel teens from Iowa on the local news, would their English be any cleaner??
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)Sorry, but it was hard not to notice that every sentence they said had errors.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)No more and no less than some may need a grammar lesson...
"Ridiculous. But these students seriously need an English lesson..."
Conjunctions (in this case, 'but') are used to merge to ideas, and never to begin sentence structures. However,I do realize we often hold others (even youths speaking informally) to higher standards than we hold ourselves. 
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)Starting a sentence with but, especially on something as informal as an online forum, is perfectly acceptable. AND there is a big difference between speaking basic proper English and grammar. I wouldn't have mentioned anything if they had made a grammatical error, but 3 sentences with improper English couldn't be ignored.
kcr
(15,315 posts)If the errors weren't grammatical, what was the problem with the way they were speaking?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"especially on something as informal as an online forum, is perfectly acceptable..."
No more and no less than common vernacular is acceptable in an informal setting between youths. Again, you seem to be accurately illustrating that we often hold others to higher standard than we hold ourselves, and are adding qualifiers to your premise after the fact to better validate your original errors, while maintain your indictments against theirs.
"but 3 (sic) sentences with improper English couldn't be ignored..."
Most others on this thread did ignore it, so we've clearly established it may be ignored. You simply chose not to (and any number of ten or less is to be spelled out rather than using the numerical character... just in case you don't want to be corrected over that in the future as you correct others again...)
Calling bad grammar a myth does not make the grammar any less bad (again, insert rationalization here).
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)Democrats for less education so others doesn't feel bad about sounding stoopid.
Jesus, are you afraid you are going to hurt their feelings acknowledging that they use improper English and that it would be better if they were taught the correct way to speak? Since when are Democrats opposed to education?
BTW, there is nothing wrong with starting a sentence with but. It is NOT bad grammar. That is a myth. Sorry your teacher taught you otherwise. AND there is also nothing wrong with not writing out any number on a message board. BUT thanks for trying to find faults with my writing.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)with a huge sigh...
You wouldn't believe the "writing" that comes across my desktop.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They were verbally responding to a question. Language has lots of uses, but the main one is to communicate. Do you understand what was said? Then it was communicated.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)And where does one wait for a school bus but on the sidewalk?
I feel very skeptical of the officer's statement that the kids were actually blocking traffic. I think they were more likely taking up sidewalk space near where the bus would pick them up.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Seriously, wtf!?
BuddhaGirl
(3,602 posts)Now, what about the fucking police abuse??
