Morehouse College student shot during robbery

[that damnYOGI....]

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/morehouse-college-student-shot-161353.html

that's all...

[Jaimac]

 

 

[Jay_Thomas]

another one?  Good grief!

we're going to have to start arming students with weapons.

[LULions]

    This incident follows the murder of the Spelman student, and shooting of her CAU friend.

[Golden Kitten]

 

I don't know about arming students but perhaps there needs to be more AUC campus police patrolling the vicinity...

[Jay_Thomas]

after the poor Spelman student was shot and killed, the school issued a letter [about safety] to the parents of students:

http://www.morehouse.edu/emergency/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=98

If you're around late at nite, you can have campus security escort you to your car; the AUC shuttle runs 7 days a week; there are emergency call boxes throughout the campus. Still, GK, I think you're right, in that considering these recent events, visible campus presence needs to be upgraded so the students feel safe and so the thugs know that it is not just an open season on robbing and killing students.

 

[SkegeeFAMU]

Not to mention that two more GA Tech students got robbed this weekend.  It's come to the point where you just about need a gun to go anywhere within the City of Atlanta.

[Jay_Thomas]

SkegeeFAMU, sad but true about that.  As you know, Atlanta Police Dept is on the outs with Mayor Franklin as they get ZERO support from her; we really need MORE officers...but I think she had at some point CUT the number of officers and no raises either.

Some were complaining about a raid at a gay club recently while criminals go on breaking and entering, robbing and killing local students...but, thank God they raided that gay club...which led to NO ARRESTS. 

We feel sooo much safer now. 

[J007]

Atlanta police to beef up campus police presence
By Bill Rankin


To combat crime at local college campuses, the Atlanta Police Department will put an increased presence of uniformed and undercover police officers at the Georgia Tech and AUC campuses, police chief Richard Pennington said Tuesday.



Pennington  said the city is responding to recent assaults and robberies on college students, including the shooting of a Morehouse student shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday as he walked home from the college library.

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 Pennington said the student was released from Grady Memorial Hospital Tuesday morning after being treated for a gunshot wound in  the arm.

Over the weekend, two Georgia Tech students were robbed as they were walking near the campus. The assailants hopped out of a white vehicle, robbed the students, got back in their car and drove away, Pennington said. Both cases are under investigation, he said.

Pennington said APD will put four uniformed officers at AUC and four more at Tech. There will also be an undisclosed number of undercover officers at both campuses, he said. These officers will help AUC and Georgia Tech campus police.

The Atlanta officers will be paid overtime and work shifts from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher said. He estimated the officers working overtime will be paid about $30 an hour.

After 30 days the APD will evaluate the effectiveness of the deployment and decide whether to continue the increased presence, Dreher said.

"We're going to do everything we can to make our college campuses safe," Pennington said at a press conference at City Hall.

Pennington noted that many of the attacks on college students have come in the late night or early morning hours a few blocks away from the campuses. Students, he said, need to be mindful of their surroundings and to try to walk in groups. "Some of these areas are still not safe at that time of the morning," the chief said. "We hope these students will be a little more careful. ... I think they have become easy targets for some of the criminals."

Robbers are targeting students to get their computers, iPods, backpacks and and cellphones, the chief noted.

Mayor Shirley Franklin noted the thiefs re-sell these items on the street and urged citizens not to buy such items from unauthorized sellers. "It's a cycle," the mayor said.

At the press conference, Franklin announced that the city will begin posting weekly crime statistics on the city of Atlanta's website. The statistics will date back to 2007 and give readers a comprehensive view of city crime over the past three years, the mayor said.

[SkegeeFAMU]

SkegeeFAMU, sad but true about that.  As you know, Atlanta Police Dept is on the outs with Mayor Franklin as they get ZERO support from her; we really need MORE officers...but I think she had at some point CUT the number of officers and no raises either.

Some were complaining about a raid at a gay club recently while criminals go on breaking and entering, robbing and killing local students...but, thank God they raided that gay club...which led to NO ARRESTS. 

We feel sooo much safer now. 

Let's not forget that three of the four candidates for mayor have been direct victims of crime in the last few months. 

Atlanta needs a lot more officers, a lot larger police presence.

[Brother Tony]

NATIONAL GUARD TIME! 
...oooppss, i forgot...they are somewhere else protecting another country citizens...
 

[Pmist]

  As you know, Atlanta Police Dept is on the outs with Mayor Franklin as they get ZERO support from her; we really need MORE officers...but I think she had at some point CUT the number of officers and no raises either.

Zero support? That is a little over the top. Have some of that fustration been aimed at your city council rather than Shirley?   SURELY, they have played a part in the mess. Ive seen as much with my own eyes. They have stood in that woman's way on a number of times when she tried to balance those books and then they want to go and hide their hands till election time when services had to be cut back and brown out had to occur ..

Shirley took on those issues in Atlanta head on when other mayors before her have punted on and as a result she is taking the heat.  She may be to blame on some of this but PLEASE AIM THAT AT THOSE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ALSO.

[Lonewolf]

Florida Evans says " damn damn damn". can`t even go to school to learn because some ahole trying to take what you got. NewsFlash ahole you could have it to if you would put in the time.  These types of aholes are why i won`t give up my gun. Like I said the last time I am sick of this s**t. i don`t know if we need to hire more rent-a-cops. I think we need to start busing some caps in the azzes of some these robbers. I feel like pulling a Charles Bronson in Death Wish on one of these Mofos.

[Capler]

Cats it is not about the police, it is about changing people's behavior. Until we get serious about that nothing is going to change. The sad part of all of this violence it that it is largely an African American event. White people don't really care because it affects them in very small numbers.  Locally in Winston Salem another police office was killed by another armed African American thug. Everybody is running around crying and looking for answers. The way to stop this is not with more police officers but we must go to the core of the problem and look at the African American community. Before I go any further I'm going to stop the folk right now who are going to run up this thread and say; "it is not a black problem because whites do it too."  Yes they do but not at the high rate at which we do it. In Greensboro 85% or more of the murders happen among African Americans and we make up only like 30% of the population. 
Right now black folk are a nuance in my neighborhood, and we can't figure what to do about them. We had a murder Sunday, and yesterday they tore down a decorative street lamp post and the neighborhood sign. I called the city this morning and told them that if they don't do something, I'm going on the local news and call the worthless niggers out. No it won't be politically correct for me to air black folks dirty laundry in public but I'm tired. They can call me a heater all they want but I have the truth on my side. Many of these African Americans are nothing but animals, and don't deserve the respect of any other human being.

[Wildcat1025]

If you know an area is dangerous, why are we out walking at 1:30 am?  I am not saying the victim is at fault because no one deserves this but we have to be a little smarter with our decisions.