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Post by Kady on Aug 9, 2018 8:48:15 GMT -5
Community members confronted a circle of police in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood over a "bait truck" allegedly filled with Nike shoes and left open by police aiming to lure potential thieves and make arrests. "Y'all dirty, man," a man tells officers in an online video of the incident published Thursday. "Y'all see kids playing ball and you pull a f----- Nike truck into the ghetto." Charles McKenzie, an anti-crime activist who put the video on Facebook, told Vox that the truck appeared next to a basketball court frequented by young people in the largely black neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago. And while both local and federal agencies conduct such "bait" operations, the site reported, neither Chicago police nor the FBI offered comment on the truck. ----- But some community members perceived an alleged bait truck, left in an impoverished neighborhood near a basketball court, as an obvious attempt to target black youth as racially lopsided arrests unfold nationwide. "The police parked a truck with boxes of Nike shoes in front of kids, lifted up," McKenzie, the activist, said on Facebook, "and when people hop in the truck, the police hopping out on them." McKenzie founded God's Gorrilas, a group promoting job assistance and alternatives to violence in Chicago. His video, which has 630,000 views on Facebook, later picked up another 290,000 views on WorldStar. In another video, YouTuber Martin G. Johnson allegedly depicts the bait truck traveling between locations with "plainsclothes, FBI-looking type guys." Once parked, he films community members telling authorities to remove the vehicle from their neighborhood. "Kids shouldn't be breaking back into trucks," a police officer responds. After the confrontation, however, the white truck is driven away. "That's what advocacy looks like," one man says. "Good job, people.". www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/08/bait-truck-video-shows-chicago-neighbors-confronting-police/936516002/ 42 |
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Post by rosa427 on Aug 9, 2018 11:15:55 GMT -5
A waist of taxpayer's money.
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Post by tnthomas on Aug 9, 2018 15:59:27 GMT -5
I've never been impressed with entrapment operations, there are enough real crooks to track down and arrest, no need to manufacture them.
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Post by Kady on Aug 9, 2018 18:52:29 GMT -5
I've never been impressed with entrapment operations, there are enough real crooks to track down and arrest, no need to manufacture them. Very true........they are creating the crime and increasing racial unrest. |
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Post by TheSource on Aug 10, 2018 20:15:54 GMT -5
Sounds a whole lot racist to me.
I wonder if they tried the bait truck in a predominantly white neighborhood?
Oh, that's right. I forgot. White people don't steal. 
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Post by robusta on Aug 11, 2018 8:56:27 GMT -5
I am of mixed thoughts on this one. There is a show called bait car,where they leave open cars in sketchy neighborhoods. It is entertaining at times. However a truck full of Nikes in the hood? How could this not be perceived as a racist move. Is it not racist just to assume that a truck load of Nikes would be more attractive to potential thieves than a truck load of widgets or anything else. It also appears to me to be a ploy to start young children and teens out with their very first criminal charge, with the assumption that shoes would be attractive to all groups while widgets would probably attract mostly adults with a track record.
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Post by Kady on Aug 11, 2018 9:19:45 GMT -5
I am of mixed thoughts on this one. There is a show called bait car,where they leave open cars in sketchy neighborhoods. It is entertaining at times. However a truck full of Nikes in the hood? How could this not be perceived as a racist move. Is it not racist just to assume that a truck load of Nikes would be more attractive to potential thieves than a truck load of widgets or anything else. It also appears to me to be a ploy to start young children and teens out with their very first criminal charge, with the assumption that shoes would be attractive to all groups while widgets would probably attract mostly adults with a track record. Whether bait cars or bait trucks, both are racist, and not entertaining. |
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Post by robusta on Aug 11, 2018 9:37:04 GMT -5
I am of mixed thoughts on this one. There is a show called bait car,where they leave open cars in sketchy neighborhoods. It is entertaining at times. However a truck full of Nikes in the hood? How could this not be perceived as a racist move. Is it not racist just to assume that a truck load of Nikes would be more attractive to potential thieves than a truck load of widgets or anything else. It also appears to me to be a ploy to start young children and teens out with their very first criminal charge, with the assumption that shoes would be attractive to all groups while widgets would probably attract mostly adults with a track record. Whether bait cars or bait trucks, both are racist, and not entertaining. Well yes the show is at times quite entertaining. The bait Car show is not racist because the cars are not targeted to minority neighborhoods. What is it seems racist about that to you? |
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Post by Kady on Aug 11, 2018 9:56:48 GMT -5
Whether bait cars or bait trucks, both are racist, and not entertaining. Well yes the show is at times quite entertaining. The bait Car show is not racist because the cars are not targeted to minority neighborhoods. What is it seems racist about that to you? You did not state in your original post that the bait cars were not targeted to minority neighborhoods...minorities and racism is what this thread is about. |
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Post by robusta on Aug 11, 2018 10:08:27 GMT -5
Oh I am sorry. With the title of the thread I thought it was about "BAIT TRUCKS" and by extension bait cars.
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Post by nkat on Aug 11, 2018 10:36:30 GMT -5
In a white neighbourhood the white kids would steal to get a rush. If they really wanted the shoes they would just get mommy or daddy's charge.
if I stold my mom would of chopped off my hands!
nkat
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Post by helen on Aug 11, 2018 10:57:01 GMT -5
I would think that in Chicago there would be enough legitimate crime to keep the police busy without manufacturing more.
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Post by rosa427 on Aug 11, 2018 14:19:06 GMT -5
I would think that in Chicago there would be enough legitimate crime to keep the police busy without manufacturing more. Hmmmm, I guess this is their preventive measures instead of developing better early childhood development school programs to get them started off right. I agree though, as I said, it's a waste of tax dollars which could be funneled to more pressing matters. |
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Post by rosa427 on Aug 11, 2018 14:24:13 GMT -5
I am of mixed thoughts on this one. There is a show called bait car,where they leave open cars in sketchy neighborhoods. It is entertaining at times. However a truck full of Nikes in the hood? How could this not be perceived as a racist move. Is it not racist just to assume that a truck load of Nikes would be more attractive to potential thieves than a truck load of widgets or anything else. It also appears to me to be a ploy to start young children and teens out with their very first criminal charge, with the assumption that shoes would be attractive to all groups while widgets would probably attract mostly adults with a track record. I remember watching a few episodes of such a show some years ago, the neighborhoods then seemed sketchy then too, don't recall the ethnicity of the people, but, mostly seemed to me to be poor areas where crime occurred. Or possibly it was just areas where there was a high rate of car thefts, I can't remember exactly, it was a long time ago, I found it as interesting for about one or two episodes. |
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Post by rosa427 on Aug 11, 2018 14:45:00 GMT -5
These folks need to go to jail, well at least this first guy for sure. After viewing this makes me feel some folks do need to be wrestled up off the street if they keep repeating the behavior.
I think there are some other
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