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who?

For these teens there are no consequences in court, and no consequences at home.

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Looking at the downvotes it looks like nyc softies getting butthurt

Oh yeah I agree definitely weird, but not unheard of

Yeah, still seems weird to pick someone out for an anti-black hate crime in area that's about half black.

I mean they were saying n word alert to describe the person hard r and all

Video is infuriating to watch.

Poor kid looks absolutely terrified the entire time.

Tries to get on the train twice before getting beaten.

This is why I'm not necessarily a fan of laws which restrict minors from getting charged as adults.

There are situations, such as this one, where adult consequences are warranted.

There's Haitians in the heights?

Conventional wisdom would say you would never get in trouble for defending a kid from a violent gang style beating, but this is the same borough where the DA charged a bodega worker with murder even after they had video of him clearly defending himself.

Also, you don't know how other people would react.

It doesn't seem like they cared about a bunch of teens bullying another teen, but if someone didn't know what was going on and saw an adult beating up some kids, you might catch a beat down of your own from a half dozen people

Exactly correct. Shits so backwards.

That's the shittiest part of this situation. We have so much to lose. Sure, we could deck one of those teenagers and knock them the fuck out and in defense of another kid, but if we are arrested or our names are dragged through the mud by a bunch of Twitter warriors, our paychecks, housing, careers, and livelihoods might be toast. These bum teenagers along with the bum adults who breed them have nothing to lose by acting like a bunch of zoo animals in public. Unless the government holds them accountable for their actions, we're powerless against them.

Fuck those bum ass teenagers who attacked this kid.

I used to skip school by riding the NYC subway lines with 0 problems

Nothing. Remember the reporter who told a group of teens to stop harassing a guy. He got beat up pretty bad

You have a gut feeling that 181st street is close to Washington Heights?

Indeed, risk going to real jail for hitting a kid and if the kid hits you they get a slap on the wrist. Another downside is you’re seriously injured, a lot of these kids know how to fight and want to, I don’t know how to fight and really don’t want to

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Indeed for assailants with high risk tolerance and lower understanding of consequences, more unpredictability and more error prone or lack of good judgement, you've got no idea what could happen, I can't say I'd be rearing to intervene with my lanky ass lol.

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This looks like one of the first runs of the new R211 train too and was likely packed with railfans, many of whom are teenagers themselves. Wonder if that played a role in this.

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Nothing more dangerous than a group of unsupervised teens in this city.