Nope, not satire!
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"Teens takeovers should result in teen chain gangs" (referring to manual labor in prison).
That statement is apparently ... a crime?
From WBAL:
Baltimore police said they are investigating a possible hate crime in Fells Point.
Business owners in the area reported that someone drove through the streets of Fells Point, tossing the bags from a car. The bags contained a message that read, 'Teen takeovers should result in teen chain gangs: try to spit in our faces,' which is possibly a reference to teen gatherings.
At no point in the story do the Baltimore Police or WBAL explain why notes that refer to "teen takeovers" would be a "hate crime," presumably because they themselves would be guilty of a "hate crime" if they tried to explain it. 😂
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Here's the actual note, which lists the web address of KKK-linked group "Sacred White Knights" (the police and media don't mention the name because of course not).
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The group's website looks like it was last updated sometime in 1998:
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I'm trying to imagine the discovery process during the theoretical criminal trial.
Judge: "What in this message displays discriminatory language that meets the legal threshold for a call to violence?"
Woke prosecutor: "Um, there is an implied racial animus in the message, your honor."
Judge: "In what way, exactly?"
Woke prosecutor: "The phrase 'teen takeovers,' your honor, along with a white supremacist website link."
Judge: "But how does the wording on the note itself express racial animus?"
Woke prosecutor: "It implies that unruly teens gathering in public places are black."
Judge: "Where does it say that?"
Woke prosecutor: "It simply implies it, your honor."
Judge: "But how do you know?"
Woke prosecutor: [Visibly straining to not incriminate herself] "Because, um, it just does."
Back to WBAL:
Another visitor added, 'When you got people going down the street throwing these messages out of their car it doesn't make a lot of sense. We were all kids at some time. We got kids coming down here looking for something to do, mostly they are all behaving.'
It "doesn't make a lot of sense"?
These "kids" are doing some serious damage to local businesses. You can easily find news stories about the "takeovers" from the past few years.
Here are some stories related to "young people" getting violent in Fells Point, Baltimore:
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I would point out that someone doesn't need to be a racist to note that there is a pattern here that needs to be discussed...
And I would argue that maybe we need to be arresting the criminals who keep destroying downtown Baltimore instead of neckbeard white supremacists who write notes...
But the Baltimore police might arrest me if I did!
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