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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/08/bait-truck-video-shows-chicago-neighbors-confronting-police/936516002/?width=534&height=401&fit=crop
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.
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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.".
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uponit7771
(90,367 posts)mountain grammy
(26,659 posts)handmade34
(22,758 posts)gordianot
(15,247 posts)But does not hold a candle to reported Republican financial crimes.
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)of racial bias. Most all cargo theft is the result of cargo theft rings. Adults. They steal entire tractor trailer. They are well organized.
It is not teenaged boys stealing sneakers off the back of a truck.
By putting that line in there it leads the reader to believe that black kids taking sneakers off the back of a truck, left open and unlocked are responsible for that 27 million loss.
When in real life it is an organized crime syndicate.
gordianot
(15,247 posts)Takket
(21,644 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)More prisoners, more money, more shareholder equity, life is good.
Well, except for the prisoners and their families.
But, hey, here at the country club, we're elated! More prisoners, please.
DinahMoeHum
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Serves them fucking well right for doing that crap.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)Difference would be the white kids would load up their golf carts with stolen shoes.
Boomer
(4,170 posts)Let's leave an open Brinks truck full of cash and stock certificates in an upper-class White neighborhood.
Tarc
(10,478 posts)Park it in a rural Kentucky town, see what happens.
Demovictory9
(32,482 posts)Bettie
(16,132 posts)they are sure to be stolen by the magats.
hatrack
(59,594 posts)That would generate some interest.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)amerika will never get better. Too many pigs in uniform and out, racist or not. But if white, more than likely racist and just waiting to put a n****r down with 10 or 12 bullets.
lostnfound
(16,193 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)And see what happens.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Regardless
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)NBachers
(17,149 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 9, 2018, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)
kag
(4,079 posts)eShirl
(18,505 posts)they need to be busting actual crime, not creating new criminals
bonniebgood
(943 posts)the government has to create more. Repukes are so damn evil, yes the mayor as well. wherever this came from, the top down needs to be headlines news, pictured fired.
infullview
(982 posts)It's called entrapment.
kag
(4,079 posts)Lots of states let their cops do this. 'Cause, you know...not enough crime.
AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)There's a difference between an "entrapment" and setting up an "opportunity" to commit a crime.
"Government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person's mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute."
"Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 451 (1932)." https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements
infullview
(982 posts)but that doesn't mean it isn't slimy. It's like parking a truckload of food in a poverty stricken neighborhood and arresting anyone who might be hungry enough to help themselves.
AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)I don't believe a jury on the planet would convict in your example though...I still have faith in Most people
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)kag
(4,079 posts)...to get them to do this. Not officially, of course.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)But, as mentioned above, there is a lot of money involved in the for-profit prison system.
Instead of baiting kids and locking them up, they should teach them real job skills like welding, nursing, computer skills, etcetera.
benld74
(9,911 posts)Everyone knows that
Pure BS as all levels
TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts)Odoreida
(1,549 posts)Crime "prevention" is not a measurable statistic to help a cop get ahead in his career.
Protecting lives and property?
Not these cops, not those neighborhoods.