Seems that the Thugs and Hood Rats set fire to the playground off Truesdale Place in Raintree on Friday (5/20/2022).
CMPD and Charlotte Fire investigators have collected evidence and video tape from a nearby home. Reward Offer from the Raintree HOA and CMPD is apparently forthcoming.
This is personal because I’m a sucker for nostalgia, my kid used that playground just down the street from my parents house. Been there 30 years or more the last time I drove by I saw someone had "tagged" the slide last summer - totally unnecessary and given the price of gas crazy.
The CMPD Atlas One system has no mention of this so I'm guessing CMPD with just ignore this but it is clearly arson. And the next time it will be someone's house.
23 comments:
How do you know they are Thugs and Hood Rats? You racist POS!
They have them on video.
I thought South Charlotte was safe with no noggies?
10:59 Thugs and hood rats are made up of all races. For you to suggest otherwise is racist as hell you racist POS!
I looked on Atlas and there's only an auto theft on Woodfox which is nearby.
South Charlotte has gone dark. I went to Tipsy Taco at StoneCrest on Saturday. Been to the Greenville location figured Charlotte would be just like it. Nope.
Me the Wife and our 2 girls 14 and 16 walked in at 7 and thought about turning around. We were the only white people in the place other than the help.
I felt like we were intruding.
It wasn't that there were Black people in the place rather they were the only customers the restaurant had and it wasn't an anomaly. We were there more than a hour and during that time black people left and more came in. Not one white couple came in to the place. Maybe two or three at the bar.
So what's the draw? I'm going to go back just to confirm but what is this the new Red Lobster?
Pledge fund?
11:56...Thugs and hood rats of one persuasion are the only ones who do this shit!
It just proves that a certain race of people don't know how to act!
11:56 is absolutely right. This could have been any race. There are a lot of rich white kids doing things like this too.
Please stop with the racial name calling with everything. It makes you look as much like a fool at the "retired" officer who feels he must post "pledge fund" in every story --- so a retired officer got caught up in a Ponzi scheme suctioned by CMPD.
Neither the racial name calling nor the Ponzi post make the writer look intelligent. In fact, you look like fools but that is the benefit of social media, you get to show your ignorance to the world...
1:09 but this wasn't a bunch of rich white kids. The video is on next door they are clearly not white kids.
Not that white kids don't do this shit. The first case I ever worked was a Black Church on Old Providence Road. Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church 1996 burned it to the ground. The suspect was a 13 year old white girl. The media promptly went into racist mode. The girl wasn't a racist didn't even know it was a black church just didn't like Jesus. Said Satan was her God. But the news kept it up with the white supremist BS.
Y'all be WOKE!
3:28 The point was that Cedar didn't mention race in his story. He just said thugs and hood rats which could have be any race, yet 10:59 insinuating that "thugs and hood rats only refers to a specific race with the idiotic comment "How do you know they are Thugs and Hood Rats? You racist POS!".
In this case, they may happen to be black or whatever race, but 10:59 is projecting his/her racist issues onto Cedar even though Cedar never brought race into the equation. Apparently 10:59 believes there is only one race that can qualify as a thug or hood rat. That means 10:59 is a true racist. That was the point of the discussion.
There was a Black Church on Providence Road West now Ballantyne Commons Parkway where the storage place is next to Home Depot. Some white guy drove up on a Sunday and started shooting. Didn't get a lot of coverage at the time. But race hate crimes do happen but not nearly as much as the media would like to think. Hey maybe this was a hate crime. Black kids burning down the white kids play ground? Nah.
Thugs and hoodrats can't drive neither!
5:26 Remember only white people can be racist, blacks are WOKE!
Because we all know it was thugs and hood rats. Racism? Yeah, blacks are racist.
There has been an entire generation of white thugs and hoodrats down there. Mostly strung out on Arboretum heroin. Without video, I wouldn't guess what race they are, but it doesn't surprise me. Sadly, this used to be a wonderful part of town, but the liberal creep has continued on into what still is solidly middle class Charlotte. I would guess the gas came from someone's lawn mower shed or garage nearby. Just a crime of boredom and stupidity.
As for the Tipsy Taco, I feel the same about every restaurant we've been to in Charlotte. Unless it is a brewery type, that seems to draw the millennial kids, the restaurants are chock full of AfAm folks. They must be doing better than me...or they're happy to live a life on the credit card. No judgment, just an observation. Nope, not your old Red Lobster crowd, this is a high dollar roller- Atlanta style.
I get my check every munt!
Knee jerk blame is easy, but reflecting on why a young Black male may do this is the difficult part. I am going to suggest that inside there is jealousy that the playground they grew up near either did not have a playground, or had an inadequate one. I am also going to suggest that the home life they grew up in- either with parents working multiple jobs, or single parents trying to make ends meet- did not allow for proper time to condition the children to such racial inequities. It takes a larger man to understand that institutional racism is real and alive, even in today's Charlotte.
Let us find the people responsible, understand why they lashed out, get them help, and use this unfortunate incident to grow as a community.
7:37 You are the problem, not the solution. I didn't have a playground and my parents were young, poor and soon divorced, but I understood consequences. I was taught that most other people had nicer things but what mattered was content of character. I didn't burn down someone else's playground or steal their things and never wanted to. We were creative and used our own imaginations to entertain ourselves. We climbed trees or played in the creek or hide and seek in the woods etc. Life is what you make it. Your constant racism and pity party claims hurt the community you claim to care about. You instill the idea that these people can't be expected to do better, so they don't. Causing them to turn to petty and/or gang crimes etc. Stop it! You really need to take a good look at the damage you are causing.
So by your definition, while white kids in Charlotte have access to an Xbox, streaming TV, and travel teams, we are just supposed to accept that the underclass, most of which are Black, but also other POCs, should just accept playing in the creek like it's some throwback to Opie and Andy?
This is exactly what defines institutional racism. Separating the poor and underprivileged also separates them by race. Teach them that they are to make do with less, and they do exactly that. Then when they learn how to hustle and thrive, you want to stop them and throw them in the prison like they are trash. Well, the system treated them like trash, so that's what you expect as the result.
Had these young folks, whatever race they are, had been given an opportunity to attend STEM camps in the summer, or been able to go to school without the stigma of free breakfast, I doubt they would be lashing out at a neighborhood playground. The school lunch and breakfast needs to be open for everyone, required for everyone, so that you do not continue this underclass creation. SNAP and EBT needs to be replaced with UBI, for everyone. Charlotte will get there, but it's going to take another generation of progress.
There are also a ton of white kids and every other race that are poor and underprivileged. How do you not know this? Maybe more so in Rowan County than Mecklenburg but plenty still. Also if you total all of the white under privileged versus the black under privileged, there would be a higher number of the white category in the US simply because of the higher percentage of white/vs black. Regardless all kids are getting way too materialistic and hung up on electronics, labels and coveting other things. They have no imaginations and act like brats. God help us. The future is a mess. I still want a good effing tree swing but i digress, the YMCA has plenty of activities. So do churches. But all people have to take their own initiative.
Why don't you start a program and go into these communities and help them locate the things, camps, and activities, instead of blaming everyone else, do something? I remember around 2005 touring some of the new section 8 apartments near downtown and the activity centers they were putting up for the kids. Those were very nice. They had more for the kids than most regular communities.
Also, lets not forget that certain groups like to burn down their own neighborhoods in the name of social justice which just leaves them with less. It makes no damn sense. Why so much destruction? I don't think that has happened in Charlotte on a large scale yet but it wouldn't be surprising.
I believe 500% that all of this focus on race is creating huge problems and resentment that would not be there otherwise from both sides. How do you have black leaders in all higher government positions in a city and still claim that city is racist against that same race? And if it is, wouldn't that be a direct result of the policies of the leaders you have?
Here's the thing...Most people of all races are good and have good intentions, then there is a certain percentage of all races that are not good. It will always be that way. We should deal with those issues individually, and stop grouping people by race. It is so ignorant.
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