(03-30-2015 04:16 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Now you guys see why i don't use the Metrolink to go downtown. I'll use it to go from the nearby station to the Airport and back, but that's _it_. One of my work colleagues had this happen to him some time ago (when we first moved up here), he got robbed for his train pass, and from that point on, I swore if i had to go into downtown St. Louis, I'd pay for the parking.

If I remember correctly during one of my visits during xmas 25 or so years ago, Laclede's Landing was redone and was nice back then....how is it now?

I damn sure wouldn't think about mass transit in that craphole....

This spring and summer is going to be bad. If you are a white guy you better have you head on a swivel.

(03-30-2015 06:08 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  This spring and summer is going to be bad. If you are a white guy you better have you head on a swivel.

And packing.

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

Welcome Back !

(03-31-2015 10:15 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Welcome Back !

Thank you friend

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

Hey look who's here!

Thought ya'll were done til 4/4?

Ah well, welcome back. You guys behave yourself in the sandbox, now. Ya hear?

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

Welcome Back!

(03-31-2015 10:17 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-31-2015 10:15 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Welcome Back !

Thank you friend

Bout time you showed back up.

(03-31-2015 10:15 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

Welcome Back !

Ditto

Fcking animals. I wish he had been packing and blown away one of these punks.

(03-30-2015 05:01 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-30-2015 04:16 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Now you guys see why i don't use the Metrolink to go downtown. I'll use it to go from the nearby station to the Airport and back, but that's _it_. One of my work colleagues had this happen to him some time ago (when we first moved up here), he got robbed for his train pass, and from that point on, I swore if i had to go into downtown St. Louis, I'd pay for the parking.

If I remember correctly during one of my visits during xmas 25 or so years ago, Laclede's Landing was redone and was nice back then....how is it now?

Just as run down as ever... basically there's one or two restaurants you might be willing to visit, but IMO, that's it.

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

'ole boy is back after serving his penance....

Have Obama and Holder spoken out on this yet? Surely they have and I just missed it. Hell, face facts, those punks are heroes to Obama and Holder. You know it and I know it.

(03-31-2015 02:05 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(03-30-2015 05:01 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(03-30-2015 04:16 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Now you guys see why i don't use the Metrolink to go downtown. I'll use it to go from the nearby station to the Airport and back, but that's _it_. One of my work colleagues had this happen to him some time ago (when we first moved up here), he got robbed for his train pass, and from that point on, I swore if i had to go into downtown St. Louis, I'd pay for the parking.

If I remember correctly during one of my visits during xmas 25 or so years ago, Laclede's Landing was redone and was nice back then....how is it now?

Just as run down as ever... basically there's one or two restaurants you might be willing to visit, but IMO, that's it.

that's sad....hell, it was 30 yrs ago the last time I was there...laclede's was nice then....

my female cousin still runs my grandfather's grocery store in glendale that my uncle started his catering business out of over 30 yrs ago...grandpa opened the store back in '33...a lot of really good memories there as tyke....

(03-31-2015 10:04 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 02:13 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 01:00 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 12:18 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  This is disgusting.

The crime or the Spin Room response?

The crime obviously. And the fact that it's not being reported as a hate crime.


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Authorities are "looking into it" to see if it might classify as a hate crime. Not sure what more you'd need.

The prosecutor is now saying the St. Louis community has "been through enough" with race, so they won't charge these punks with a hate crime.

Three in custody in attack on MetroLink rider

Quote:ST. LOUIS • Police have three people in custody in an attack last week in which a MetroLink rider was beaten after one of several men asked him about the Michael Brown “situation.”

A police source confirmed Monday evening that a 21-year-old and a 15-year-old have been arrested and another person is in custody who is cooperating with the investigation.

A video posted to Facebook appears to show the attack March 23 on the 43-year-old man, and MetroLink released surveillance images of suspects.

Police said the victim, who is white, was punched and kicked by three black men, one of whom had made the reference to the teen killed in Ferguson by a police officer Aug. 9.

The assault took place about 8:54 p.m. as the eastbound train was nearing the Forest Park Metrolink platform, police said. The victim told police he was seated when the three men approached him from behind.

One of the men asked the victim if he could use his cellphone, and the victim said no.

The man then asked the victim “what he thought about the Mike Brown situation.” The victim responded that he hadn’t thought much about it, according to the police report.

The man in the red shirt then punched the victim in the face and struck him multiple times, police said.

The victim was unsure if the other two men had joined in, but video surveillance of the incident confirmed that they had, police said.

A security officer working on his post at the Forest Park Metrolink platform observed the assault as the eastbound train pulled to the platform and stopped. As the security officer boarded the train, the attackers ran off the train and out of sight.

The security officer notified the Metro dispatcher of the incident. Police were contacted by the Metro dispatcher and met the victim at the next station.

The victim complained of pain to his face. The man had a cut on his nose and bruising on his face and forehead, but he declined medical attention on the scene.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime...59ff0.html

(03-31-2015 09:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Three in custody in attack on MetroLink rider

Quote:ST. LOUIS • Police have three people in custody in an attack last week in which a MetroLink rider was beaten after one of several men asked him about the Michael Brown “situation.”

A police source confirmed Monday evening that a 21-year-old and a 15-year-old have been arrested and another person is in custody who is cooperating with the investigation.

A video posted to Facebook appears to show the attack March 23 on the 43-year-old man, and MetroLink released surveillance images of suspects.

Police said the victim, who is white, was punched and kicked by three black men, one of whom had made the reference to the teen killed in Ferguson by a police officer Aug. 9.

The assault took place about 8:54 p.m. as the eastbound train was nearing the Forest Park Metrolink platform, police said. The victim told police he was seated when the three men approached him from behind.

One of the men asked the victim if he could use his cellphone, and the victim said no.

The man then asked the victim “what he thought about the Mike Brown situation.” The victim responded that he hadn’t thought much about it, according to the police report.

The man in the red shirt then punched the victim in the face and struck him multiple times, police said.

The victim was unsure if the other two men had joined in, but video surveillance of the incident confirmed that they had, police said.

A security officer working on his post at the Forest Park Metrolink platform observed the assault as the eastbound train pulled to the platform and stopped. As the security officer boarded the train, the attackers ran off the train and out of sight.

The security officer notified the Metro dispatcher of the incident. Police were contacted by the Metro dispatcher and met the victim at the next station.

The victim complained of pain to his face. The man had a cut on his nose and bruising on his face and forehead, but he declined medical attention on the scene.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime...59ff0.html

all proves the point you better make enough fkn money to not have to ride mass transit....

do you really think things are going to improve...

jfc....

After videotaped assault on MetroLink, riders and officials reflect

The Metro spokesman called it one of the safest in the country....Which country?

Quote:ST. LOUIS • Much like the diversity of the region, a random sampling of MetroLink riders on Monday had mixed reactions about taking public transportation one week after a man’s assault was caught on video.

“Since the whole Michael Brown issue came about, there’s tension between blacks and whites, for sure,” said Shelly Williams, waiting for a train near Forest Park. “Things just seem more aggressive.”

The riders’ comments came hours before police announced Monday evening that two people had been arrested in the attack. Another person believed to have been involved was in custody and cooperating with police.

The two people arrested are 21 and 15, police said. They had not been charged.

Williams was going to see a friend Monday at lunchtime and regularly rides the train home from work at 10:30 p.m. She has advocated for expanded public transportation options through the group Citizens for Modern Transit.

Now, she’s saying Metro needs more security at night.

“After seeing (the video), my co-workers are like, ‘You’ve got to get a car,’” said Williams, who is white.

The March 23 video shows a small group of African-American men attacking a seated passenger, 43, who is white. A security guard said he saw three men attack the man around 10 p.m. on an eastbound train stopped at the Forest Park MetroLink platform.

The victim, who refused medical treatment, told police that he wouldn’t lend his phone to one of them who had then asked him what he thought about the Brown case. After he said he hadn’t thought much about it, the same suspect began punching him in the face.

According to video surveillance, police said the two other suspects contributed to the assault.

Metro spokeswoman Dianne Williams reassured on Monday that it’s one of the safest public transportation systems in the country and that “senseless acts” like the recent assault are very rare.

“Having one of the safest systems doesn’t mean that we are immune,” she said.

But she said violence goes well beyond Metro. She mentioned recent brazen shootings on Interstates 44 and 70, and unruly behavior at the St. Louis Zoo and other places.

Also last week, a white man allegedly sucker punched former Cardinals outfielder Curt Ford, an African-American, at a gas station in Fenton, telling him to go back to Ferguson. The incident happened after the two men approached the same gas pump from two directions. The suspect was charged with one count of assault motivated by discrimination in the third degree, a Class D felony.

“We are looking at what we need to do to harden our security because of what’s going on around the region,” said Williams, of Metro. “There have been senseless acts plaguing our region and the nation for a while.”

Metro’s security budget is supposed to increase by $263,000 in fiscal year 2016 to $11.2 million. About 1 million tickets are stamped each week on Metro buses, trains and vans.

MetroLink, which has 46 miles of service between Scott Air Force Base, Shrewsbury and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, has the most diverse ridership of the three services. Of MetroLink riders, 54 percent are African-American, and 40 percent are white.

On a quick ride Monday around lunchtime from Forest Park to Eighth and Pine streets downtown, one rider who tried the train out for the first time said it was nice and planned to use it more. He hadn’t heard of the recent assault. But another who had heard of it said he had never felt unsafe in years of riding light rail.

The Rev. Charles Hale said there could be better control. “They need to start enforcing their rules on foul language and loud music.”

A man behind him, Mitchell Thompson, was going to catch an Amtrak train to Jefferson City. He was released from prison Friday.

“This would normally be considered a safe place,” said Thompson, 58. “(The incident) shouldn’t make somebody not ride the train anymore. The safety features far outweigh one incident.”

Paul Walls, 59, merely shrugged. “I still go on the train. Wrong place at the wrong time.”

Recent incidents have caused an unhealthy amount of fear and assumptions, said Travis Brown, 26. Soon after he boarded the train, another African-American man pushing a bicycle nodded in agreement.

“It just makes us look bad,” he said of the attackers. “You have to have self-restraint.”

Brown wore a black Chicago White Sox baseball cap. A small speaker played music from the pocket of a black hooded sweatshirt.

“Everybody is not the same,” he said.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime...a0891.html

(03-31-2015 09:27 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  After videotaped assault on MetroLink, riders and officials reflect

The Metro spokesman called it one of the safest in the country....Which country?

Quote:ST. LOUIS • Much like the diversity of the region, a random sampling of MetroLink riders on Monday had mixed reactions about taking public transportation one week after a man’s assault was caught on video.

“Since the whole Michael Brown issue came about, there’s tension between blacks and whites, for sure,” said Shelly Williams, waiting for a train near Forest Park. “Things just seem more aggressive.”

The riders’ comments came hours before police announced Monday evening that two people had been arrested in the attack. Another person believed to have been involved was in custody and cooperating with police.

The two people arrested are 21 and 15, police said. They had not been charged.

Williams was going to see a friend Monday at lunchtime and regularly rides the train home from work at 10:30 p.m. She has advocated for expanded public transportation options through the group Citizens for Modern Transit.

Now, she’s saying Metro needs more security at night.

“After seeing (the video), my co-workers are like, ‘You’ve got to get a car,’” said Williams, who is white.

The March 23 video shows a small group of African-American men attacking a seated passenger, 43, who is white. A security guard said he saw three men attack the man around 10 p.m. on an eastbound train stopped at the Forest Park MetroLink platform.

The victim, who refused medical treatment, told police that he wouldn’t lend his phone to one of them who had then asked him what he thought about the Brown case. After he said he hadn’t thought much about it, the same suspect began punching him in the face.

According to video surveillance, police said the two other suspects contributed to the assault.

Metro spokeswoman Dianne Williams reassured on Monday that it’s one of the safest public transportation systems in the country and that “senseless acts” like the recent assault are very rare.

“Having one of the safest systems doesn’t mean that we are immune,” she said.

But she said violence goes well beyond Metro. She mentioned recent brazen shootings on Interstates 44 and 70, and unruly behavior at the St. Louis Zoo and other places.

Also last week, a white man allegedly sucker punched former Cardinals outfielder Curt Ford, an African-American, at a gas station in Fenton, telling him to go back to Ferguson. The incident happened after the two men approached the same gas pump from two directions. The suspect was charged with one count of assault motivated by discrimination in the third degree, a Class D felony.

“We are looking at what we need to do to harden our security because of what’s going on around the region,” said Williams, of Metro. “There have been senseless acts plaguing our region and the nation for a while.”

Metro’s security budget is supposed to increase by $263,000 in fiscal year 2016 to $11.2 million. About 1 million tickets are stamped each week on Metro buses, trains and vans.

MetroLink, which has 46 miles of service between Scott Air Force Base, Shrewsbury and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, has the most diverse ridership of the three services. Of MetroLink riders, 54 percent are African-American, and 40 percent are white.

On a quick ride Monday around lunchtime from Forest Park to Eighth and Pine streets downtown, one rider who tried the train out for the first time said it was nice and planned to use it more. He hadn’t heard of the recent assault. But another who had heard of it said he had never felt unsafe in years of riding light rail.

The Rev. Charles Hale said there could be better control. “They need to start enforcing their rules on foul language and loud music.”

A man behind him, Mitchell Thompson, was going to catch an Amtrak train to Jefferson City. He was released from prison Friday.

“This would normally be considered a safe place,” said Thompson, 58. “(The incident) shouldn’t make somebody not ride the train anymore. The safety features far outweigh one incident.”

Paul Walls, 59, merely shrugged. “I still go on the train. Wrong place at the wrong time.”

Recent incidents have caused an unhealthy amount of fear and assumptions, said Travis Brown, 26. Soon after he boarded the train, another African-American man pushing a bicycle nodded in agreement.

“It just makes us look bad,” he said of the attackers. “You have to have self-restraint.”

Brown wore a black Chicago White Sox baseball cap. A small speaker played music from the pocket of a black hooded sweatshirt.

“Everybody is not the same,” he said.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime...a0891.html

wishful utopian society rhetoric.....me tinks notz in da realz of social welfare <sic>

you wouldn't have a clue how to toss a 'punch'....

what is the point of this thread?

oopsy daisy....I'm on ignore....