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-lacochran

My “Don’t Be Silent” group focuses on street harassment, but it’s not just sexual “hey, baby” harassment. There is an epidemic in this district with these kids, and something needs to be done. These kids are violent, aggressive and so damn angry, and we need to find ways to counter that.

I would really love to do a pan-neighborhood alliance towards getting these rowdy kids off the streets.

I said “We’re not bothering you” and he said essentially “you better not be .. i’ll f— you up, i’ll kill you” etc. very weird and scary for my girlfriend.

Eventually we let him walk far enough in front of us… thinking it was scary but .. we could leave it alone.

But then we saw him hassling a woman who was alone with her dog, so I started hurrying up toward them in case the situation turned serious. Eventually she put her hand out to give herself some space and he left, but it was so scary that he was hassling her that I called the cops on him.

He saw me talking on the phone and figured I was calling the cops on him, so he came up to me, threatened me some more, and then spat on me before walking away.

Eventually the cops came and I rode in the cruiser for a bit trying to ID him but he was long gone……….

I like city living but, as I joked tongue-in-cheek to my friends, “.. and that’s how they invented the suburbs”

And I feel that when these fools harass people on the streets, they’ve given up their rights. Unless a minor’s involved, no one needs to get release forms signed for instigators and thugs.

Theneighboor – great idea!!!! You could expand it to include litter bug of the day….or on my walk to the metro litter bug of the hour, er, minute. It really is a good idea, unfortunately think about all those releases you would have to get the punks to sign, plus most of them are probably underage. Imagine how hard it would be to find some sort of legal guardian to sign the release for them.