Flash Mobs, Random Phenomenon?

[FreeBorn]

Maybe this is a stretch on my part, putting two and two together or just coincidence. Flash mobs formed under mirroring circumstances simultaneously in two different cities, Chicago Ill. and Rochester N.Y. Inner city black youths descending upon the public beaches in great numbers and causing mayhem before vanishing almost as quickly as they had materialized.

They weren't there to build sand castles or patronize the ice cream stand. They rose nine shades of hell and got right to it the moment they arrived. What I find most remarkable now is that follow up reports in the media seem to go to lengths to recharacterize  the events in a different light. Now all of the related stories on the Rochester news station website describe "fights among youths", etc. and all of these stories which aired at the time over Memorial Day weekend have been updated in the days since. They don't do that often. As these events were originally reported on over that weekend the videos shown on the newscasts had bystanders interviewed giving accounts of all the racial slurs being shouted by the youths and how these black youths targeted white beach goers, throwing trash at them, grabbing away their belongings, etc. Those initial videos were of a much closer perspective with the camera crew right in the thick of it up close to all the action. The Rochester episode culminated with the camera focused on a large crowd of black youths, the main body of the mayhem when suddenly several gunshots rang out in quick succession and the crowd scattered. The gunshots were clearly audible and commented on by the news anchor doing the reporting at the scene. This has been entirely expunged in the updated versions. No mention of black on white violence, no mention of gun play and the views of the scene shown are from much further back, a good half a block removed and having seen the original version plainly the "aftermath" views.

Rochester~

http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Mayor-Police-Chief-Promise-Order-at-Beach/IH9ZETkPPE6EBld39o0rkw.cspx

Chicago~

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/beach-north-124629279.html

I can certainly understand the concern of the City to reassure the public that the beach is a safe place to bring the family. It also reminds me of the movie "Jaws" when once news of something in the water that eats people is getting out to the public the Chamber of Commerce types freaked with the sound of plink plink plink as the dropping bricks piled up between their ankles. They had to calm the crowds quick and keep their revenue stream from packing up the car and racing home for the summer. I think that is partially the case here but I also feel there is more to it. Racial tensions are running higher in this country now than any time since the 60's but it's not PC to even acknowledge that is so. Everything's fine! There are no sharks!

Either the City governments of both Chicago and Rochester are engaged in the same sort of collusion to mask the facts or it's all in my head. I think they are doing the ostrich thing and burying their heads in the sand. They just don't want to talk about the elephant in the room that is doing that bull in the china shop thing. It isn't going to go away. These flash mobs are becoming alarmingly more common and more violent. The ostrich that sticks his head in the sand is libel to catch a boot in the ass for not acting accordingly in due time.

[JohnnyReb]

Need more street sweepers......12 ga. or larger.

[redwhit]

Same thing in Boston with the Carson Beach fights over Memorial Day weekend.  The cops dealt with this by clearing the beach of everybody.  The issue at hand is if this was gang related or not and who has jurisdiction, state police of Boston PD? 

Of course, anyone commenting on any aspect of the actual perpetrators is immediately shot down with cries of racism.

Boston Globe report

[JohnnyReb]

I hope all these flash mob happening stay in blue cities and effect the ultra liberals only.

This was the type of behavior and inaction by federal troops right after the Civil War that brought about Jim Crow laws and the KKK.

[FreeBorn]

Same thing in Boston with the Carson Beach fights over Memorial Day weekend.  The cops dealt with this by clearing the beach of everybody.  The issue at hand is if this was gang related or not and who has jurisdiction, state police of Boston PD? 

Of course, anyone commenting on any aspect of the actual perpetrators is immediately shot down with cries of racism.

Boston Globe report

Three cities? At the same time? Same thing/ mobs of black youths descending upon the beaches?

Are we noticing a trend here, folks?

What are the odds this is purely coincidence? I don't think it is any coincidence that the authorities in Boston are pushing the same story line here, gang on gang violence. They are just having a minor spat among themselves, a non event. Nothing to see here, folks!

The big question is whether there is some higher level of control over the instigation of these simultaneous mobs using Facebook and Twitter to organize events on a national scale.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's a simple idea that can be easily copied by criminals, and doesn't require any new resources or technology beyond what they're already using to coordinate their evil little plans.  It is in the human nature of criminals to exploit any new method of illicit self-enrichment they learn about given those conditions, not necessary to hypothesize a plot to explain the outbreak. 

[marv]

It started with mostly black kids, and the defense was "racism". When there was a perceived sense of defenselessness, others joined in.

[Ptarmigan]

I think it is a disturbing trend.

[Ballygrl]

Here's another 1 to add to your list, the websites been down since Drudge linked to it, no confirmation on whether or not it's true, but here's a blog post on it:

http://peoriaantipundit.blogspot.com/2011/06/war-zone.html

[Airwolf]

There are no coincidences. Trust me.

[Ballygrl]

There are no coincidences. Trust me.

Very strange isn't it?

[redwhit]

Very strange isn't it?

Not really.

1. Everyone has a cell phone and this allows for mass instantaneous communications
2. This technique works really well
3. There is no defense yet.

This is the sort of thing that coordinated the uprisings in Egypt and other locales in the Middle East. Remember Egypt trying to turn off the internet to combat this tactic?  Didn't work very well then and that certainly won't work here. 

This is the wave of the future.

[JohnnyReb]

Well, it looks like that from now on when you plan a family outing to the shore you'll pack the ammo box first and then the picnick basket.

[vesta111]

Well, it looks like that from now on when you plan a family outing to the shore you'll pack the ammo box first and then the picnick basket.

Watch your excited utterances carefully when caught up in a flash mob.

All the microphones and cell phone cameras can get YOU put in jail for uttering a raciest remark even when you are are protecting you children or Grandma.

Words that are raciest for white folks,

N** word, Greaser, Wop, Kraut, Frog, Limey, Kike and Towel Head.     Lots more here that can get one arrested for saying out loud.

Words that other races may use with no problem.

Whitey, Honkey, Cracker, White Trash, Gingeo, Yankee, Red neck, Jew Boy, Wop, Kraut, Frog, Limey and Towel Head or Sand Crab.


Time to go to court and when asked what was the description of the mob that attack you and family, now you have a problem, how to describe the attackers without sounding racist your self.

If you say the attackers were all wearing big sombreros so you believe they were Latinos you can be accused of profiling all men who wear that type of hat as racist.

You describe the attackers as wearing middle eastern clothing, same thing.  Just because the attackers were wearing turbans is no crime. Your conception of all people that wear turbans as being Arab is racist

You describe the attackers as being African American youth, How do you know that, are you saying the attackers are Negros, Hell people can come from every place in the world with dark skin, that does not mean they are Negro, they may be Greek, French ,Turkish or from South America.

As much as I have to say it, this experiment into America becoming a melting pot is not working when any one race is placed in a position of having more or less rights then another.

If I am a person of African ancestors can run about Cursing the White folks from Europe in public, why cannot a person from South Africa whose Ancestors fought the Zulus  also curse out me and my roots.??

Pack your Ammo for a beach picknick will not help you if hit by a flash Mob of people other then your own race.    A good Lawyer in a court of law will if you shoot a couple of the mob that is all Eskimo as they beat up grandma, as your reaction heavy handed, you held the upper hand with a gun, they were only armed with drift wood.   

Laws are crazy, State to State and the rules of protection are miles apart.   

[Mr Mannn]

Well tell me if this is a point or not.

In every case these mob attacks happen in liberal cities, right? and liberal run for decades, right?
In the Peoria case, only two police showed up, the mob was still there, and no back up was called.

A liberal city, with a weak police force is far different from say, a Texas city.

Seems to me the main factor is: no threat of prosecution.
and I'll bet there are no concealed carry laws in the affected areas as well. If a few of these kids get shot, that will end it real quick.

the place to watch is Chicago. Rahm stated he would end these a month ago...yet they still go on.