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Brawling teens, onlookers clog up Forest Hills T stop
By adamg on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 4:34pm
A brawl that erupted around 2:45 p.m. yesterday at Forest Hills disrupted bus service through the station as MBTA and Boston police tried to clear both combatants and groups of teens who gathered to watch, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
The DA's office says officers found three of the teens on the lower bus level "yelling, flailing their arms, and challenging one another to fight," while two more were at the upper busway whaling on each other.
Arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court were:
Ato Botsio, 19, of West Roxbury; Tamaria Toney, 17, of Hyde Park (also charged with assault and battery on a police officer); Treavon Treadway, 19, of Roslindale; Steven Ulysse, 20, of Mattapan (also charged with possession of pot with intent to distribute); Stephen A. Wright, 18, of Roxbury and a 16-year-old from Dorchester not named because of his age. All except the 16-year-old were released on personal recognizance at arraignment in West Roxbury District Court; Judge Ernest Sarason denied prosecutors' requests to revoke Treadway's bail on a West Roxbury larceny case and Wright's bail on a Dorchester gun case. The younger teen had bail set at $250 and was ordered held on an unrelated warrant from Boston Juvenile Court, the DA's office says, adding another 16-year-old is scheduled for arraignment Friday on a charge of affray.
Toney was not charged with fighting, but the DA's office says that she refused to move when police officers tried to clear out teens clogging up the bus lane: "When officers specifically instructed her to leave the area, she allegedly screamed at the officer, pushed him, and attempted to provoke the group."
Toney's Facebook page would seem to indicate she was putting her own personal philosophy to work: "Ima Cool ass female but once ya on my bad side its ova! I chill wit nothin but tha baddest! & i can careless about wat anybody thinks or says about me cuz dont none of yall do shit for me!!!"
Innocent, etc.
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Clockwork Orange?
Clockwork Orange?
I'm not sure (just kidding)
I'm not sure (just kidding) whether the Clockwork Orange reference is to the youth violence or the seemingly impenetrable (not really) slang. Seriously, her facebook page should (again, not really) have a glossary at the back, like A Clockwork Orange. Honestly, I loved that movie, but I'll be damned if I'm going to have to refer to a glossary every fifth word just to get through a novel. So, I basically never read more than the first two or three pages of the book.
Anyway, I was at Forest Hills for the aftermath. I was on the upper bus level and there were cops all over the place, including one who was taking digital photos of the inside of the station. I ducked away from being in one of his shots, a la the scene in The Godfather at the wedding. (Actually, in The Godfather, the film was stripped from the camera and the camera thrown on the ground. I thought it best to avoid provoking the cop in that way.) (Seriously, though, why did I duck away from the camera; I'm not exactly one of those privacy freaks.)
Anyway, more striking than all the cops was the ridiculous number of kids there. I think it was reported in the Metro today that the schools are now letting all the kids out at the same time or something, which might have contributed to some of the friction there yesterday.
That whole station is Clockwork Orange
It's obvious for miles around, what with that tower and all ...
Well, not exacty
I've never known Orange Line trains to leave the terminal stations and head through the system like clockwork.
Why aren't these kids in
Why aren't these kids in school? Why are they on the street instead of in class? Why do the public schools close at 2pm? Why aren't they in class and studying until 5pm? Is it because the teacher's union says that teachers don't have to work past 2pm?
These kids should be in school, not on the street.
School is out!
I can understand your argument but being an educator myself I know for a fact that forcing these kids to be in school any longer is counter-productive. It is hard enough to keep their attention for the 7 hours we have with them now. I don't think anyone in any profession would be willing to work 12 hr+ days especially when it involves children. It's a catch 22! I think more parent involvement would go much further than keeping the kids stationary for a longer period of time. Everyone has free will but I feel that if you train your child to attempt to avoid trouble at all cost, and teach them that life has more in store for them than what they see out in these streets, they would definitely have the capacity to use better judgement and carry themselves with more self-respect.
Kids should get the same kind of breaks that working adults do..
... and which used to be routine.
Reducing "lunch hour" to 20 minutes or so (as is often the case) is a joke. Kids should have time to go through cafeteria lines (or the equivalent, when applicable), eat in a leisurely fashion (not bolt their food down) , and socialize a bit. Having a bit more time between classes might also be nice.
And schools should have the resources to allow meaningful post-school (voluntary) activities for all kids who want/need them.
Exactly!
Funny how many of the 9 to 5 school crowd bellow about the obesity epidemic and blame it on parents while they advocate shutting down the only time the kids do have any opportunity for activity or other enrichment?
I will support full day curriculm ONLY when and if it means including meaninful blocks of time in the schedule for socializing, running around, and eating - not to mention music and art and language classes.