First, what the hell was that?
You know what I'm talking about.
The 2nd melee' on the Country Club Plaza last evening.
Again, what the hell was that?
There are so many questions.
Like what were these kids doing? Was there an event, in their eyes? There must be. Some reason why they all converged right there on the Plaza.
Then, how do we get these to not happen again, for obvious reasons? I was walking out of Unity Temple on the Plaza about 10 pm (after seeing a terrific Celtic concert you may have missed, but that's another story) when there were police and people and the local police helicopter--the whole shmear--converging on our beloved Plaza.
You have to know the "city fathers" are concerned about this one.
It's only Spring--April, for pity's sake--and things are busting out all over--and not in a good way?
Here's another question for us, and it's my favorite today: What are you, Mr. and Mrs. Mayor, going to finally do about this?
I mean, you totally, completely and utterly ignored all the shootings in the city last year and while you've been Mayor, thank you very much, but this one you can't overlook.
Once more, with feeling: What are you going to do about this?
I'll tell you what you'd better do, even though it's unsolicited advice--you'd better get with the Police Department right away (like you didn't for the murders and shootings, to repeat) and develop a plan for handling this.
And then, the 2nd and last thing you'd better do is get with all the African-American leaders in this city you can get in a room and calmly, quietly and intelligently address this situation.
You're going to need to ask questions like:
--why did these 2 melee's happen?
--what are these kids doing down there on Saturday night that they collect like this (because we sure don't understand it)?
--how do we keep these things from repeating because every responsible parent in this city doesn't want things like this happening.
Finally, there better be answers quickly, otherwise, this is going to happen again and again, for the rest of the summer.
And they'll only get bigger and uglier, in the meantime.
(Pssst, Rep. Cleaver. Can you help us with this? Do you have any information? Input? Can you help?)
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If there was an "event" it was a Flash Mob intentionally created by mass communication among these young thugs who made a plan to converge on and overrun the Plaza with intimidating and disruptive behavior. I have been a patron of the Plaza since my grandmother took me shopping there around 1960 & I worked there during college and became engaged at Fedora's decades ago. So I KNOW my Plaza. Have been closely following the news repts about what happened this weekend and am appalled: City buses full of youth arriving at the Plaza; Winstead's forced to close early; business windows broken; kids deliberately jumping out in front of cars and banging on car windows. You can bet the slacker parents of these thugs, who want nothing to do with the kids when they need guidance or homework help, will be the first to file frivolous lawsuits when one of these young animals gets his/her as* kicked. Disgusting.
I'm not sure you actually know what a flash mob is. A flash mob is a non violent, BRIEF, activity. MAybe breaking out into song and/or dance, then going back to a normal activity.
I was on the plaza last night, and that wasn't a flashmob. but it was a bunch of thugs.
and did you know last night was prom for several kansas city area schools? Don't buy into so much media propaganda.
Rep. Cleaver. Can you help us with this? Do you have any information? Input? Can you help?
ROLMAO ... I don't care who you are, now THAT was funny ...
Flash mobs used to be groups of nerds getting together for a little harmless street theater. Recently black youths have used flash mob techniques to get together for a good old fashioned "wilding".
Whatever the police do will be wrong and ample evidence that the "Man" is racist.
KC is too big and the police force too small in numbers to really do anything about crime. Be prepared to protect yourself or move out. Soon the Plaza will be like Westport, not a place to be after dark.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that Highwoods Properties and the city of Kansas City, Missouri is going to lie down and let this go on, week after week. On the contrary.
If anything, they'll either find some way to give these kids something to do on the East Side--not likely, as it would be extraordinarily expensive and take a great deal of creativity, which seems to lack downtown--or they'll push them back to Westport.
Westport sounds far more likely.
We'll see.
mr
As a resident of Westport, literally on Pennsylvania and 40th, I have never been scared to go out after dark.
To me, this sounds like a bunch of kids with no parenting or lack of things to do.
According to the official police report of the nights incidents, two firearms were involved, one recovered from a 17 yo in a vehicle stop, another stolen during a vehicle break in.
This was not a bunch of kids having fun, this was a bunch of kids looking for trouble. Someone will be shot unless the community takes charge of their children. From the video of the incidents I saw, it was 13 to 17 yo's. Parents, do the right thing or your child may not come home next weekend.
I know that at my lake there is a huge issue of skateboarders skating on the band stand. Damaging it. People need to respect what was given to them for free. If one person ruins something then nobody else can enjoy it. We need to respect what our community offers us.
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