While filming my latest blockbuster comedy How to be a Man, I heard a woman screaming her head off.
She just had her iPhone stolen at gunpoint by a six-foot-tall black kid (the paper likes to leave it at “kid”) who was running like the wind away from her. My ribs were broken from a previous fight scene so I didn’t give chase but I’m not sure I would have participated even if I was in perfect health. This kid risked—what—five years in jail for a cell phone? He obviously has a retard-level IQ and his understanding of consequences ain’t great to say the least so what are the odds he’s going to shoot back at you? I’d say 1 in 10.
However, screaming her head off got everyone’s attention and before you could say, “Fuck it,” the medic from our shoot dropped everything and tore off after him. The kid was running like a gazelle but the forty-something EMT caught up with him, tackled him, and got the phone back. The medic said he was “pretty sure” the gun was fake so he let the kid go. For the record, the Post said a lot of people joined in but it was just the medic risking his life to catch a thief.
It would have been more just to kick the kid’s ass and hold him there until the cops came. Who cares if the gun was fake? The trauma the victim suffers is still the same. Cops shoot at kids with fake guns the same way they shoot at kids with real guns. He committed a real crime and breaking the kid’s arms would have been totally reasonable. But should either of them bothered chasing that kid in the first place? I’m told local gangs are conducting initiations this time of year and armed robbery is a good way in.
Vigilante justice like this is good for the rest of us. This woman and the super-medic who intervened have sent the message that you can’t just wander through the park midday robbing people, but is a cell phone really worth three lives? Is it really about the principle of the act?
I spoke to the medic later and he was very modest about the whole thing. I found out from another medic that this dude flies all over the world running triage for catastrophes. He was Hispanic and I bet you a million dollars he’s Catholic. I spoke to the woman after too and she was alert, coherent, and even funny. She said, “You can’t take my cell phone! That’s my whole world right there” and laughed. She’s probably pregnant with a boy because she definitely had balls.
In the end, I’d say it wasn’t smart what they did but I’m glad they did it? Wait, now I feel like a pussy who wants pregnant women to make my neighborhood safer. What would you have done?
—GAVIN McINNES
My sister was jumped by three black teenagers on Havemeyer and South 3rd two days ago. They basically tackled her and forced the phone out of her hand – in plain view of a bunch of people/traffic/cameras. She said the kids were basically retarded, but knew exactly what they were doing. The cops brought her back to the station and told her “its been happening a lot lately”. She said to the cops “I’m stupid to be walking with my phone in my hand out in the open” and the cops “No you’re not, this is America. You should be able to change songs without being fucking afraid.”
As for giving chase, these fools see value and consequence in a completely different way than we do. It makes me feel like a pussy, but I’m not gonna get stomped out over an iPhone.
While filming “how to be a man” man watches pregnant woman get robbed and stares.
a wise man once had a sticker on his guitar that read, “vandalism: as beautiful as a rock in cop’s face”
doesn’t really have anything to do with this article, but(t) fuck the police -if i could, i would beat the kids’ ass
If you asked me beforehand and gave me a choice I would probably say that I wouldn’t get involved in these kinds of things, but whenever they happen I find myself jumping into the fray without thinking twice. I guess I’m just a great guy.
Gavin you kind of get a pussy pass for this one because it was only a phone and the kid was egressing but if someone’s in danger you should step in if you can. But yeah guns do change the equation a bit.
“How to be a man.”
Id fence the cell.
The main gangs in Williamsburg is DDP (Dominicans Don’t Play). If the kid was non-Hispanic black and this was a gang thing he was most likely a Blood. There is one small group of Crips in NY but the vast majority of black gang members are Bloods. Latin Kings are usually Puerto Ricans but they are pussies who are more interested in dealing coke than getting into trouble.
^ I have a feeling that this is the guy pictured in that “Duke of Fall” Onion re-post
Ryan Belt doesn’t know half of what he’s talking about and just learned the shit he’s saying from documentaries on A&E. It’s not that the Latin Kings turned into pussies, it’s that the FBI has had their number for two decades and they can’t do anything besides deal drugs, they’re in the same boat as the Italians, they’re all high profile, US born citizens with U.S records, the FBI and NYPD knows who each and every one of them are, and they’re the easiest high profile targets for arrests. All the other gangs are ethnic immigrants who don’t stay here permanently, have fake identities, their members change every coupe of years as wanted members basically just get back on planes and go back to their homes after few years and a new cycle of immigrants replace them in their gangs. Those gangs are way harder for the FBI to fully investigate because their members just disappear and leave the country.
Vinnie – haha
I’d have screamed until someone did something, which they wouldn’t.
I would have ran after him and he would have left me in the dust since I run about as fast as a one legged sloth. BUT, I would have definitely broke his arms had I caught him.
I had a guy run off with my laptop. I chased him even though it was corporate and insured, because, fuck you asshole.