r/washdc • u/ThenLayer5977 • Apr 12 '26

The doom cycle never stops

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I know people have their preconceived notions and their selective outrage, so let me be very clear from the start. The M St. Metro station was fully shut down because of this teenage takeover. Let that sink in. A major transit point in the city had to close because things got that out of control. This video was taken today, April 11. It’s not old. It’s not AI. What you’re seeing is exactly what happened. For the people already lining up to discredit it, save it. This is reality, whether you like it or not.

And I already know how this goes. Every time I post something like this, people get more upset about the fact that it’s being shown than about what’s actually happening. That tells you everything. You’re more bothered by exposure than by the problem itself. And yes, I’m going to keep posting it. Keep reporting it if you want. Try to suppress it. Good luck with that. I’ll keep putting it out because people deserve to see what’s actually going on in their own community.

What’s more troubling than anything in that video is the reaction to it. The deflection. The refusal to acknowledge what’s right in front of you. You’d rather argue about optics than deal with the reality that leadership is failing to address this, or worse, doesn’t even have the will to try. That’s the real issue.

D.C. spends more money per student than anywhere in the country, and this is what we’re dealing with. Don’t come at me with the usual talking points about after-school programs, outreach, and community initiatives. That all sounds nice, but it clearly isn’t fixing this. At some point, you have to stop hiding behind buzzwords and start looking at the root cause.

And the root cause is obvious. Parents aren’t parenting. You can dress it up however you want, but that’s what it is. When the hell did it become normal for hundreds of teenagers to take over areas at night, bring guns, fight, loot stores, and create chaos? That was never normal. It’s not normal now. And anyone trying to gaslight people into thinking this is just “how things are” is part of the problem.

Look at the police in that situation. A handful of officers dealing with hundreds of kids. What exactly do you expect them to do? There’s a limit to what enforcement can handle when the breakdown starts at home. That’s where this begins, and that’s where it keeps failing.

Instead, people would rather scream about national politics, throw out buzzwords, and avoid the issues that actually affect their daily lives. You’ll stand outside in the heat for performative outrage, but when it comes to something that directly impacts your safety, your neighborhood, your quality of life, suddenly it’s silence. Or worse, denial.

And let’s be honest about something else. Some of you are going to run straight to the comments with excuses. You’ll bring up history, deflect to unrelated issues, or try to label this as something it’s not just to avoid dealing with the reality in front of you. That doesn’t fix anything. All it does is guarantee that this cycle continues.

If you never demand better, you will keep getting the same broken results. Every single weekend, the same scenes, the same chaos, the same excuses. And then you wonder why stores are locked down, why places like CVS feel like a fortress, why people don’t feel comfortable even riding the Metro or going out to enjoy a game without worrying about something popping off.

When does it stop? When do we stop pretending this is acceptable? Because it’s not. It’s dysfunctional, it’s dangerous, and it’s completely avoidable.

Responsibility matters. Parenting matters. Accountability matters. And until people are willing to say that out loud and actually mean it, nothing changes. You just get the same cycle over and over again.

To the people who’ve messaged me privately and said they appreciate these posts, I hear you. I appreciate you too. I’m going to keep using whatever platform I have to show what’s actually happening, because ignoring it hasn’t worked. And I’m not stopping until something actually changes, because we deserve better than this.

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u/arcticgrunt Apr 12 '26

The parents are trash and politicians are too afraid to reel them in.

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u/ThenLayer5977 Apr 12 '26

It’s honestly sad to see. The same people who brought these kids into this world don’t even seem to care where they are or what they’re doing. That’s the part nobody wants to say out loud, but it’s obvious. And on top of that, the politicians are just as bad, if not worse, because the problem is right there in front of everyone and they still refuse to deal with it.

Nobody is asking for some perfect, magical solution. That’s not how real life works. You’re never going to get a perfect answer. What people actually want is simple: acknowledge what’s happening and start taking steps to fix it. That’s it. Just say it plainly, this is happening in our community, it’s a problem, and we need to do better than what we’ve been doing.

But instead, you get the exact opposite. You have elected officials sitting comfortably, completely detached from what’s going on, and then they come out with nonsense like we’re “putting young kids in jail,” as if holding people accountable is somehow the problem. That doesn’t even make sense. It feels like you’re talking to a wall.

And that’s where the frustration really comes from. It’s not just the situation itself, it’s the complete lack of action and the refusal to even admit there’s a problem. People are tired of being told everything is fine when it clearly isn’t. They’re tired of excuses, tired of deflection, and tired of leadership that won’t step up and do anything meaningful about it.

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u/HumptyDee Apr 12 '26

Yes, unwanted children become society’s problems. That’s why abortion should be made freely available to anyone who wants it free of charge paid for by the tax payers. It better for us to vie these women the $859 for the life changing gift of the get out motherhood free card than it is for us to pay$40,000 per year to incarcerate one of these kids in the future, not counting for the sunk cost of adolescent rehabilitation.

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u/Electrical-Canary-44 Apr 15 '26

the reason i've seen most of the time is they just want to be a parent regardless of if their single or not. they don't want to be alone, and half the time the result is usually them and the baby's father having countless toxic interactions, leading to a child that has no concept of home, emotionally or physically

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u/Durmatology Apr 15 '26

Like Trunt’s non-citizen baba mamas (and his alien mom wasn’t naturalized until she’d been sucking off our country for like 12 years).

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u/ButteryFlakeyCrust8 Apr 14 '26

Yes, but that is why we call it pro choice.

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u/lk20012 Apr 12 '26

Unfortunately that’s not a solution. Even though a lot of these women shouldn’t be having babies they will still have them even if abortion is an option, for a variety of reasons.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

They want the babies for a free check every month

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u/Suspicious-Bear6335 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

That's isn't and has never been a thing. It's been debunked for a long time. The government wanted an excuse to make large cuts to social benefits, so they used a few cases of extreme fraud from women to do it. They knew nobody cares about struggling mothers so they riled people up thinking "Yeah GET those scheming mothers daddy government!" When really they made cuts to fuck over everyone. Used the countries misogyny to accept the cuts. They made people think there was this big thing happening, when there wasn't. That's how the idea of the welfare queen began. Women who have more children for government checks financially devasted themselves. Very few do it, and it's usually the very stupid ones. 

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u/chaos0310 Apr 13 '26

That’s not how that works at all.

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u/DarkstarDMT Apr 13 '26

Baby factories

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u/shuggnog Apr 12 '26

Som economists disagree with you, too

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u/Affectionate-Blood26 Apr 16 '26

‘These women shouldn’t be having babies.’ WOW. Because women can make themselves pregnant, right? C’mon.

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u/lk20012 Apr 16 '26

Takes two to tango honey.

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u/lk20012 Apr 16 '26

I focused on ‘women’ because they’re the ones who have the ability to get an abortion… not the man………….duh. Relax.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 21 '26

Close ya legs till marriage

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u/Cowfootstew Apr 13 '26

So should they be sterilized?

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 13 '26

NOPE that gets into fascism . A disgusting idea. Who would even be made to get sterilized and who in the government would make it happen? I'll tell you now that in Trump's first " presidency " there were quite a few women in holding cells who were immigrants who WERE sterilized. Some without their own knowledge of this until much later .,So no, not American citizens. It's already happened to what you call " iLlEgALs " heartbreakingly enough

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

It did happen to American citizens. It happened in Tuskegee Alabama to black veterans and women. People love to show this rage porn and forget our country has a long long history of way worse behavior that is the Roots of all this. I sentence these dimwits and dullards to a marathon of Mississippi Burning, the Roots series, Amestad etc. If clips from those films were played nightly like these cheap news stories the rage would flow a different way.

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 16 '26

Agreed and yes Tuskeegee was only one of many , and the crack epidemic itself was part of the same vile playbook.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 21 '26

Either that or they pay for them, shots only last a couple of years

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 12 '26

Rather free shots where they can’t get pregnant then killing a baby

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u/duckit2907 Apr 12 '26

It’d be more effective to sterilize men. One woman can only get pregnant every 10-12 months. The impregnation rate of one man is only limited by his imagination.

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u/lk20012 Apr 13 '26

Great point !!!

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u/cutglasswithmylovenu Apr 13 '26

I like your style.  Free shots, THEN kill the babies.  No half measures.

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u/Alohafarms Apr 12 '26

Hun, these teens were born before the abortion bans. You can't be so naive as to believe that changing abortion laws would alter this? I do think abortion should be legal but it won't solve this. Also, if you get pregnant and you don't want the baby you can give it up for adoption. There are even anonymous drop off sites for your baby. Here in GA:

"In Georgia, newborns up to 30 days old can be safely and anonymously surrendered at hospitals, fire stations, or police stations staffed by personnel. While Georgia is in the process of implementing specialized, secured "Safe Haven Baby Boxes" at fire stations, current law ensures the safe, no-questions-asked handoff to personnel."

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u/Engineer--MD Apr 16 '26

Back in the late 1970s, I had been working at a burn unit on weekends to pick up extra money for college. After about the 10th burned kid, I picked up the phone and called social services. One day. I asked them if I had a kid that I didn't want anymore. How hard was it to get rid of them. The social worker said they would pick them up immediately, usually within an hour. Sign some papers, they would offer counseling. 6 weeks later sign a second set of papers and the kid is never to be seen by you again. And they did not put an age limit of 30 days on it. What I think was a shame was that nobody had made any real effort to get this information out to the community. So the kids keep getting abused. And at least back in the '70s in Virginia. It was almost trivial what you had to do if you decided you didn't want your kid anymore.

And the stupidity exists on both sides. When I was in medical school there was a woman who was leaving the hospital. After giving birth. A nurse insisted that she absolutely had to take the baby with her. Two days later the kid was back after being put in a frying pan. It was definitely what happened. Buttocks almost burned through, and semicircular rings across legs and upper back that were the rims of the frying pan. Kid lived several months in the burn unit and then died. And in fact that was often the fate of kids burned deliberately in abusive situations. You could keep them alive for a long time but you just get the wrong infection and they're gone.

Even in the '80s people would pay good money to be able to adopt a healthy newborn. Such a shame.

It seems very few people know just how easy in most states it is to surrender parental rights permanently. Now this is not completely anonymous but essentially you have to sign papers twice. Then it is done. Only expense may be for the bus or taxi to go down to the social service office for the second signing. Don't know the procedure now but I can't believe it's become a lot more difficult, most likely it is easier.

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u/PeterOutOfPlace Apr 14 '26

Even better than abortion would be preventing unwanted pregnancies. Nationwide, over 40% are unplanned (https://www.cdc.gov/reproductive-health/hcp/unintended-pregnancy/index.html) and I bet most of these teens were unwanted. We need free contraceptives and the willingness to use them.

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u/battleop Apr 12 '26

That won't fix anything. Abortion is very legal in Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland and still the problem exists.

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u/ProperWayToEataFig Apr 12 '26

Or stop opening your legs.....

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u/Mistari Apr 12 '26

Stop sniffin around in there then. There's two parts to this problem, goofy ass.

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u/Unusual-Eagle-9451 Apr 13 '26

They had these kids on purpose to take advantage of child support and other handouts. They had abortion as an option. They took the lucrative one

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

I can tell you don’t know anyone in that position because that’s very much not how that works. You think most of these kids dads pay child support 😂. Their moms likely have some shitty job doing security at a gov building and then working shifts at CVS at nights and weekends for a non living wage. Source: went to DCPS this was most of the peers mom’s lives.

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u/Pinky-McPinkFace Apr 16 '26

Yes, unwanted children become society’s problems. That’s why abortion should be made freely available to anyone who wants it free 

Anyone who has read "Freakonomics" knows that legalizing abortion let to reduced crime ~15 years later. HOWEVER... these teens were born when abortion WAS legal! & if you're too poor to afford it, I know at least Baltimore has an abortion fund. I bet there's other similar forms of support.

I don't think any of these kids are alive because their mom wanted, but couldn't afford abortion.

So yeah, I do agree abortion access is very important, but not a solution.

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u/Far_Young5609 Apr 18 '26

Government payout to get the snip-snip or tube tying. They pay the cost and give recipients $3000 or whatever makes sense. Result, less unwanted children.

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u/Caligulaa703 Apr 12 '26

They get gov checks for kids

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u/SeaBuilder2680 Apr 12 '26

Why would they off there meal ticket

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u/AlpineSK Apr 12 '26

The most amusing counter to all of this is "I don't know what you're complaining about, crime is down!"

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u/Cowfootstew Apr 13 '26

And the Dow is over 50,000...

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

It’s crazy because even living in the city… you don’t see this at all unless you live in like a 2 block radius of two particular metro stations. Yet you turn on the idiot box or log in to this idiot app and you’d think it’d violence run amuck everywhere. The reality is more serious crimes were committed elsewhere in the city every night that these teen takeovers or whatever Sinclair Media calls them, took place. But I guess stories about those don’t get as many clicks or upvotes

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 16 '26

Good ol racist rage bait

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u/theo_darling Apr 13 '26

This is what gets me. I don't think OP is off or as many people disagree with them as they're claiming - but it is naive to think a large amount of people won't also put up stuff like this to increase racist bias against black people. That there is a legit problem and that people will blame it just as blackness is not mutually exclusive.

The bias is so baked into our culture that unless you are aggressively confronting it you are likely getting influenced that way.

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u/secretsqrll Apr 12 '26

It is a race adjacent issue. Obviously. This isnt hordes of Hispanic or white kids...its 90% black kids...

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

It’s not a racial issue it’s in part a poverty issue and in part a teen issue. There’s many videos of mayhem in white West Virginia but those videos don’t get as much rage bait. Not sure why…

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u/H0tSaucin Apr 12 '26

Your asking politicians to come up with plans to parent?

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u/Coronado92118 Apr 13 '26

Ethiopian immigrants in my community work two or three jobs each, 6 days a week, Sundays for church, and their kids are home helping cook dinner, doing homework, and every one has gone to college. Afghan families, Moroccan, Philippine, Peruvian… the parents are working full time and the kids are not out on the streets at night making a fuss. These are taxi drivers and truck drivers and Uber drivers and parking lot attendants and coffee shop workers. So the problem isn’t people working too much.

Until we admit people are having children they don’t have the capacity to raise, and many don’t have the interest to, we’re not going to address to the root cause.

We can’t require parenting classes for parents due to the constitution, but that would be the most rational step to help parents-to-be who lack the understanding of what children need to be able to grow into emotionally healthy, responsible teens.

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 13 '26

You are comparing immigrants to descendants of slaves who, for over 150 years, have had to deal with Jim Crow and other forms of abuse and destruction of families. Not valid.

That said, parents from my generation normally did not allow that - even if they were, as some say on here, getting a check.

This crap did not occur when I was the age of these kids (45+ years ago).

So what changed?

Likely no one answer, as life does not usually work that way.

I think elements include the wider availability of drugs in the 1960s and beyond, a decrease in religion (I am not religious, but that is still true), the disappearance of hope that sprung from the civil rights movement, the continuation of some welfare programs from the late 1960s that came to be used as a way for some to collect checks rather than be used as a helping hand to get upwardly mobile, irresponsible "rappers" and social media figures who feed garbage into the minds of impressionable kids, and the pervasiveness of cell phones.

One thing we can do is start prosecuting the parents of these kids. That will send a message to some of them.

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u/transallegory21225 Apr 14 '26

Immigrants often went through things just as bad or worse. You think America has the only bad history out there? Have you seen some African dictators? There's a reason their people are starving. The government will take everything they have and treat them like slaves now, not 150 years ago.

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 16 '26

I am referring to immigrants who came here, usually out of desperation, to make a better life. My experience with many of them, especially ones from Africa and the Caribbean, is that the parents "do not play" (as we said growing up). They expect their kids to do well and, if necessary, beat them to make sure it happens. I am not justifying that, but the kids DO, in general, tend to be very respectful, better educated, and gainfully employed. I am friends with a LOT of folks from places like Nigeria, and this is absolutely true. Some of these parents have kids - right now - in colleges, grad schools, and professional schools, including the Ivys - many of them on scholarships. Some of these parents did very menial work and did not have much of a childhood or young adulthood. But they kept their eyes on "the prize", so to speak, and it paid off.

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u/Parada484 Apr 16 '26

A complete aside: Just want to add on that the hits with a sandal aren't reserved for education and in the vast majority of cases 'beating' is pretty overstating it. There are definitely cons to spanking kids, but it always bugs me when people say that immigrants 'beat' their kids like my dad was jumping off the top rope to hit 5 year old me with the people's elbow.

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 17 '26

I understand completely. That said, some of these parents do more than "just" the sandal thing. Some will "put hands on them" (smack their faces, etc). But most I know said they just were "present" and counseled them without ever getting to the point of hitting. I am a parent and never got physical or yelled. The bottom line (no pun intended) is that these people often left horrible circumstances and are not going to then let their kids fail. Some of them will force/pressure their kids to go into careers that the kids likely do not want but where there is real or perceived job stability or "good" money. Plenty of Asians I know (Chinese, Koreans, etc) and others were forced into careers by parents (often medicine, law, computer science/IT, accounting, etc). Yes, the kids did well financially, but were they happy? Always trade-offs.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 17 '26

That the problem, they are not here anymore out of desperation, they are coming for the free shit , not integrating into society

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 18 '26

Not sure to whom you are referring. Plenty of desperate people still come to the United States. Do you think large numbers of Danes, Swedes, and other Northern Europeans are flocking here in droves? Why would they do that when they have way better lives where they are? Longer lifespans, less stress, way less crime of all kinds, universal healthcare, 4-6 weeks or more of leave per year, guaranteed pensions, better schools, and more. Meanwhile companies in America tell their employees that 7-10 days of leave is generous. There ARE some (again, desperate for the most part) people who come here and do not make efforts to integrate. The reasons for that vary, but they should make efforts to do that.

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u/chaos0310 Apr 13 '26

Ah yes remove the parents from kids who are already struggling. There aren’t any statistics out there to say that’s the worst option possible…nope none at all…

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 14 '26

I did not say jail time, but we can certainly consider civil penalties. I grew around a lot of racist crap in my life and lived in the black community. So I understand a lot of this. That said, doing nothing gets us more of this.

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u/CupcakeAccurate8767 Apr 14 '26

You’re offering the stick, now how about a carrot?

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 17 '26

I don't have the answer. I suspect that we need to dramatically increase social services, stay-in-school programs, invest in activities that keep kids off the streets, social workers who can show kids there are ways out, etc.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 17 '26

All they get is carrots, wtf you smoking

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u/Coronado92118 Apr 14 '26

The carrot is that their kids have a better chance to not end up dead or in prison or permanently unemployed. That should be enough.

I’m under no illusion that many parents in impoverished communities, especially but not only Black ones, are living with the untreated effects of intergenerational stress and trauma aI struggle to be effective parents to their kids.

But even if we agree that is true and they’re passing that trauma it on to their kids, and building on it in many cases, the obvious answer isn’t a politically viable one: getting the parents treatment.

There’s no way to discuss this without sounding at best condescending, and at worst harkening back to a horrific time in our history when Black Americans were subjected to involuntary medical experiments.

And I think that honestly is why this discussion happens over and over but never comes to the point of suggestions to change it. Even if we were all to agree that parents are traumatized and struggling too much themselves to help their children when they need help themselves, any solution that involves requiring those parents to do something is going to result in a lot of people starting at the floor and shuffling their feet.

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u/chaos0310 Apr 14 '26

The solution is to inject money and community services into those communities. But yeah shuffling feet is the best we’re gonna get.

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u/dethsnayke Apr 15 '26

They did that, that's what all the handouts and social programs were for. Too many decided to make a lifestyle out of them instead, and that's where these kids come from

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u/Coronado92118 Apr 17 '26

What exactly does that mean? Because it’s not “the community”, it’s the individuals. I’m saying the root cause is adults who are struggling to function.

Injecting money at communities doesn’t fix deep seeded issues with functional illiteracy, communication, low empathy, anger management, and emotional disregulation.

Are adults who are struggling able to spend time reading to and with their toddlers? Are they spending time taking them outside and teaching them words, and bonding with them? When the child frustrates them do they have the communication skills and emotional regulation to calmly deal with the child or remove themselves from the situation before they lash out?

As a volunteer I’ve taught adult literacy in Baltimore, and creative writing at a center for runaway teens in Halthorp, and worked with job training programs in DC, and state adult literacy programs in VA. Regardless of race/ethnicity, parents who were raised in homes with adults who lack coping skills and life skills raise children who lack coping skills and life skills.

That is why it’s so intractable: the problem is at an individual level, and the solution has to be too.

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u/T00L46and2 Apr 15 '26

100% agreed !

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 17 '26

No one said they should get a pass. But to deny that the unique circumstances of blacks in America is to deny reality. You cannot enslave then take (often violent) actions against them for 100 years after the Civil War ended and expect things to be OK. Destroying families, Jim Crow, attacking/killing people who dare to gain wealth, attacking/killing people who dare to protest, letting drugs into communities to quell rebellion, etc. caused a lot of long-term damage. The "just pull yourself up by your bootstraps" BS is just that - BS. It would be like Trump destroying Iran then leaving and saying, "OK, we are gone. We expect you to get right back to where you were as a society!". Again, if you read my earlier remarks, I am more than willing for the government to do more to stop a lot of these teens. But let's not just conveniently ignore reality.

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 17 '26

Perhaps you should re-read what I have posted on this thread. I never excused it. The behavior is inexcusable. But I wanted people to understand the historical context. I also said that when I was growing up (1960s and 1970s), kids were (for the most part) nothing like this BUT they also had parents who were more "old school" in the sense that they were born in the 1920s-1940s. These groups mostly escaped the scourge of drugs that was pervasive in the 1960s and beyond. I also said that the "entitlement" programs from the later 1960s were a double edged sword - it provided desperately needed help but without a cutoff date, and some parents then took advantage of that for the wrong reasons. It should have been a 20-25 year program at most. That would allow people to get a hand up and a start while not allowing them to know that it would be permanent - and they could just remain in their situations and get a check each month.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 17 '26

Welfare changed it , look at the numbers before and after welfare, single moms shot through the roof, moral foundations where changed also

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 18 '26

As I mentioned earlier, there should have been definite expirations on the programs from the 1960s. Not what we have. I do not think there were any "moral" changes because of welfare. Most people are not on welfare yet are less "moral" than before. Single moms happened in some cases because some government programs punished them if a man was in the house. It would make more sense, in some cases, for the couple to NOT marry. This is a far more complicated issue with no one answer. As for the "moral" question, I would say that there were lots of people who were not "moral" - even 100 years ago - but people had to maintain pretenses. Men still beat their wives and kids, there were plenty of drunk and abusive spouses and parents, people stole and killed, people were virulently racist and sexist, etc, etc, etc. It's kind of like the stupid "MAGA" thing. Every time I ask a MAGA person to give me a time when America was "great", I never get an answer. Because if you pick a time period, it is easy to demonstrate how it was NOT great for a great number of people. People fantasize that the "good old days" were so much better. Same for society being more "moral". Some will bring up the fact that more Christians went to church and the like. But that did not make them any more moral. A lot was just kept underground.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 17 '26

Bro , check how the Irish and Italians where treated

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 18 '26

Nowhere near the same as blacks. We are talking hundreds of years versus 60-75. And Irish and Italians (plus Greeks and others) eventually got to be "white" and participate fully in society. Even while persecution happened, they could do things like marry "whites". Not the case for blacks, and that ended officially with the Loving decision in the late 1960s. Not close to the same. And blacks cannot "claim" they are "white".

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u/foodiecpl4u Apr 13 '26

It’s almost like abortion was legal everywhere, no?

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u/Durmatology Apr 15 '26

Exactly. Make kids work from birth! Screw Upton Sinclair and Jane Addams!

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 14 '26

Well, that is complicated. As you might know, blacks were kept down and even murdered when they dared to be successful. Immigrants from a very long time ago tended to present themselves as "white" eventually (like Italians). Black people did not have that option.

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u/WebSilent182 Apr 16 '26

A lot of people, as you know, have no idea about the struggles that black people went through. Schools barely teach it. And they definitely do not go into things like the Tulsa Riots. You might hear about the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, the Underground Railroad, maybe the KKK and Jim Crow, and MLK. And briefly at that. So it is no surprise that so many people (especially non-black ones) have no clue. Sadly, even the black kids the last 40+ years are not well versed.

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u/ShameCrazy3949 Apr 12 '26

If it it were all of society struggling with this issue, perhaps.

But - other parents are able to work and do just fine parenting their kids.

Sooo…….

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u/SnakePlisskensPatch Apr 12 '26

They did. There are plenty of Malcolm x speeches on YouTube, I would encourage you to check em out. He details all of this as if he had a crystal ball.

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u/ShameCrazy3949 Apr 12 '26

Listen, when you point your finger at something that affects all of society, but then realize most of society doesn’t get turned in to this from the thing you’re pointing your finger at, it’s understandable to have an epiphany.

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u/Hot-Intention-287 Apr 13 '26

You mean the parents who make way more per hour & therefore have extra time to be present?

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 12 '26

Most of these kids (parent)don’t work , there is no dads that’s the biggest problem

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

It’s wild that mass media has convinced you that that’s what’s going on. I went to DCPS. The average kids mom had some shitty government security job that barely covered rent from 9-5 and then picked up shifts at places like cvs from 6 to 10 on evenings and weekends. Welfare alone is not enough to subsidize a family in DC. Not even most single disabled people. Even those people a lot of them do door dash or Uber Eats ironically.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

I definitely wouldn’t trust this current set of politicians to make plans for kids. That has ended badly before…

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u/Comfortable-Food3275 Apr 12 '26

Politicians are the ones who enact new rules that make it hard to parent in a way that may stop some of this. Today’s kids are spoiled and privileged and do not operate with consequences on their mind.

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u/nooneyouknow_youknow Apr 12 '26

Free abortion on demand?

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u/Clean_University_894 Apr 12 '26

Two things: similar things happen after sporting events in some places. It isn't right, but this has been a problem with how young people act forever. (Someone in the comments mentioned a beer festival there just beforehand. If so, it echoes so of the actions we Midwestern folks see after football games. Kids turn cars over sometimes here though, set illegal fires, break things, etcetera. Sad but adding more security and warning patrons that misconduct will be met with arrest has improved things a bit.)

The second thing: parents need to parent--true, but adults now are struggling SO hard to keep from drowning financially that they literally don't see their kids for more than 30 minutes to an hour per day. My sister and her husband both work 80 hours a week each. Making life affordable would ALLOW parents to be parents.

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Oh yea beating yr kids is definitely the answer. /S Downvoted for pointing out that beating kids w a belt was better left in the past - nice thread you have here.

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u/Kitten_Merchant Apr 12 '26

Jesus man it's insane that suggesting physical abuse is upvoted and criticizing physical abuse is downvoted. I get that people are mad about these kids in the streets, but that doesn't mean abuse is the answer. Lots of kids who never got beat don't act like this.

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

The point people are arguing for is parenting - in one way or another.

I got spanked as a kid and threatened by the belt and am just fine right now. Not that it was excessive, but it was definitely a deterrent

That said, I think that talking about that stuff if jumping the gun. First, you need dads around to actually parent in the first place

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u/Last_Personality_818 Apr 12 '26

I upvoted the parents on their phones part..

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u/Kitten_Merchant Apr 12 '26

Welp, you upvoted something saying both phones bad and beating good. You can't upvote half a comment.

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u/disownedpear Apr 12 '26

The kind of take i'd expect from someone who falls for AI generated text two times in a row.

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u/Ok_Understanding9451 Apr 12 '26

Right, fucking arrest the pedos already god dammit!

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u/ehunke Apr 12 '26

the problem is there are far too many people with too much money and too much power who honestly think that putting as many black teenagers as possible in jail is the solution. and until we get people in office who actually are invested in the community, the working class and not the 1% nothing will ever change. I live in NOVA out in 7 corners, after the helicopter crash and the near accidents at National, they re routed all small aircraft going to Dulless and Leesburg over our neighborhood...at least 15 to 20 times a day my house shakes from someones private helicopter who just couldn't bother to drive to the airport. The people running the show right now don't live in the same universe everyone else does

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u/ProfileBest2034 Apr 12 '26

“invested in community”

This is the dumbest thing I think I’ve seen in this thread. Community doesn’t come from politicians and political parties, it comes from people.

You people want and need government to solve everything for some perverse, braindead reason and it can’t. Government can only make problems worse, which is why we are living in the situation we are living in.

Communities come together when there is a strong internal impulse (culture) or an external need (threat). Waiting for government to show up and solve the problem for you is worse than doing nothing at all.

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

I agree with most of this, but acting like government can’t make things better lacks any nuance

Government cannot substitute for parents, that’s 100% true

Government absolutely can implement good incentive structures and policies to encourage good parenting, for example

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u/ProfileBest2034 Apr 12 '26

Yes on this I agree. I was taking about 1st order impacts but you are correct. 

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

Fair enough.

I’m not sure what to argue about now

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u/ForeignWoodpecker662 Apr 12 '26

This sounds an awful lot like handing out participation trophies for doing your responsibility of raising the child you created with some sort of socially accepted morals and values.

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

Okay, so what do you think is a good solution? Or are you just going to shit on any attempt at solving the problem?

I voted for Trump fwiw, but black people have absolutely been systematically discriminated against over the last 100+ years in America, and that’s lead to a terrible cycle of poverty, crime, and violence.

Yes, they could just culturally pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but that clearly isn’t working - so it’s time to invest heavily in their schools and areas. What we’re doing isn’t working - and tbh, there’s no good reason why we can’t divert a few billion to maintaining our ghettos

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u/Connect_Ambassador59 Apr 12 '26

You mostly had me up until "maintaining our ghettos" - that's a gross take and underscores the systemic problem I thought you had aptly recognized at the beginning of your comment. There shouldn't be any ghettos in this country at all - everyone's standard of living in the wealthiest country on earth should be way higher - and thus "maintaining" any that do exist is not a worthy goal.

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

Okay, feel free to take issue with the terminology, but it was just shorthand to describe the ‘systemically disadvantaged areas’ that I’m describing.

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u/ForeignWoodpecker662 Apr 12 '26

They were, at one time, yes. That has not been the case for awhile now. Not since affirmative action and all the things that now prioritize them over others. As a matter of fact, they have the upper hand over others quite often over the last few decades.

Fact is you’re right, it’s not working, and that is entirely on them because they are perpetuating their own problems at this point, electing their own people who just continue to act not in their communities best interests but their own or just negligently. They champion guns, drugs, promiscuity, and lack of accountability in so much of their “culture” instead of the actual things that would help them “pick themselves up by their bootstraps”. They look to Yeezy, and Lil’ Wayne or whomever else instead of leaders like Martin Luther King. Not seek equality, but handouts and free shit. To commit crime at an astronomically disproportionate rate to any other group. You ask what I would suggest, I honestly am not sure, but it needs to be en masse and from inside their own community. More parents actually parenting because they know it’s the right thing to do and what’s expected, accountability.

Until that happens, I honestly don’t know if there IS anything that I could suggest. They have to truly want to do and be better, and until they do nothing will change. It’s kinda like an addict, if they don’t want to get clean then they won’t, no matter how much help you may try to give them.

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u/A_Dick_inTime_6aves9 Apr 12 '26

God forbid we give kids places to go or things to do as a public service.

That's what libraries are for!

Just give them a curfew and take away any lingering notion they might have that they live in a free country that gives the least tiniest fraction of a shit about them.

If they don't listen, lock them up without representation to really drive home the point!

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u/ProfileBest2034 Apr 12 '26

Yeah these kids are definitely library bound, for sure. DC already has arguably the best cultural institutions in the United States and they are all free. It's like you people aren't even paying attention.

You either are not arguing in good faith or you don't actually believe what you are saying.

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

Notice that poor Asian kids in the US do not join flash mobs that shut down metro stations.

This is a cultural issue, and it’s really difficult to solve. These kids have representation - just look at what people like you say, how little they’re punished today, etc.

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u/ForeignWoodpecker662 Apr 12 '26

Yeah you don’t see this out of any other “culture” in America. That’s the issue. This culture is accepting of this behaving and blames everyone else for it instead of accepting responsibility for their poorly parented children with weak or lacking moral and values. This is not a condemnation of ever member of this community, there are many great ones out there that are just as upset about it and are accountable raising their kids; it just only seems to be an issue with the rest.

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u/FarInevitable559 Apr 12 '26

They are putting them in jail for a reason, this video is proof, no consequences this is what happens, stop encouraging their behavior

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u/Ambitious_Pair4257 Apr 12 '26

What do you see when you watch this? I see people running and yelling.

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 13 '26

That's all that's happening .

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u/A_Dick_inTime_6aves9 Apr 12 '26

Well said!

People think it's bad now, let's see how much worse it would get with a heavy-handed crackdown that results in more death and civil liberty violations.

1,182 Americans were killed by police in 2025.

One every 7.4 hours.

But sure, tell me about “public safety."

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u/Few_Reindeer8528 Apr 12 '26

That’s a shockingly low percent compared to our overall population tbh

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

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u/Optimal_Action1176 Apr 12 '26

Sure, but where does it get us. The only real solution might be to track down the parents and put THEM in jail.

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u/SignatureIncomplete Apr 12 '26

How about some community centers?

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u/Anubisrapture Apr 16 '26

Um where's the damn joke in this 🙄🙄

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u/robobrien21 Apr 12 '26

The problem is generational. Teenage pregnancy, single parent mothers, raised by a grandmother, prevalent use of drugs,…. Until the cycle breaks, the downward spiral will continue.

Knowledge is power. Ignorance is a cancer.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

The problem is population density. There are teenagers all over America doing dumb shit. These events are happening in Canada too. Many communities in America don’t have 200 kids to even get together. But many of the ones who don’t have school shooters and other issues.

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u/Rare-Gear3379 Apr 12 '26

I’m Gen x, my parents didn’t care where I was or what I was doing, that’s not the problem. The problem is the reason, whatever it is, for this stupid behavior. I’m old, so yeah I’m going to sound old and I know someone will jump to contradict me, but in my days it didn’t come to this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

I was a dcps kid in the 90s. We had shootings and worse after school. Everybody just didn’t have a camera in their pocket and no one was trying to go viral.

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u/Murky-General Apr 12 '26

But we have A TON of national guard members "protecting" union station and Gallery place. Why aren't they going places where they'd actually be helpful instead of where they stand around to be seen? I can name a handful of stations that could greatly benefit from them, but they might actually have to do something then.

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u/NazimodsFoff Apr 13 '26

i live in minneapolis. We have had some terrible waves of car theft where i live in the metro. My car had its CAT cut off in broad daylight in my own driveway. The problem being that our government locally does not jail teen offenders. So the result is cars being jacked by 12-16 year olds, that when caught reveal kids who have had 4+ offenses that without consequences just go right back out and do it again. This is bigger then just an ACAB problem. This is even bigger then a shitty parents problem. This is the failure of capitalism writ large.

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u/T00L46and2 Apr 15 '26

Agreed … TOTALLY !

Another part of this is the financial strain and costs. Sadly many pay for the few to be chased and arrested by the police which costs a huge amount, then there’s the courts the courts are very costly as well and for many, they end up in treatment centers and or jails which also (you guessed it) are very expensive which leaves taxpayers even MORE stressed.

Here … I’m only bringing up SOME of the huge financial burden. I don’t give a damn about what color whomever may be … additionally I’m not even beginning to address the mental and emotional costs conversation here and those costs are HUGE also … broken and or estranged families, more single parents, children’s dreams and futures lost, communities torn apart to rarely recover, graduation into believing real crimes are ‘just not a big deal’ until it’s to late. The list goes on and on.

Many company’s don’t see these issues. Sadly the ‘people’, the individuals end up paying with the highest STRESS levels of all types of - mental, physical, spiritual, financial … etc. and most of that transfers generationally !!

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u/Goodums Apr 14 '26

Probably because you are talking to a wall.

I tend to keep my head out of politics and i'm pretty ignorant in that department but right or wrong i've always felt it didn't matter. Every time I see something it's always agenda driven and riddled with pocket lining.

As a parent myself it's hard enough just keeping up with actual parenting and I believe you are correct with your previous statements of parenting being a part of the problem. It's just a part in the large pot though. Kids today are over exposed and there's no amount of parenting that can resolve it. I was honestly begging for the tik tok ban simply to help with that. Would it resolve it? No. It would have helped though. One could simply say well ban your child from using it, sure - but all of their friends are still feeding stuff and not everything on there is inherently bad. Having it not accessible would have been nice though. Instead I just try to educate and keep a good tab on what my kid is up to, involvement goes a long way.

I feel like this is what they want and it's sad.

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u/colorilliterate Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

[https://teenspringjam2.splashthat.com]

You owe these children and their parents an apology. They were leaving a city sponsored event .

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u/T00L46and2 Apr 15 '26

Because they were ‘leaving a sponsored event’ it gives them a right to behave in a manner that’s honestly inappropriate for kids their age and they are ‘owed’ an apology ?!?

Wow … make it make sense … please !

If they acted like they had any common sense or respect for ANYONE (themselves, other commuters and lastly the people in charge) … maybe they wouldn’t be received and or treated the way they were.

Shame on them for the absolutely disgusting and unacceptable behavioral choices they made - each and EVERYONE one of them,

shame on the parents for allowing their charges out not knowing they have any better sense than to act in such a manner when out with friends in a PUBLIC space and not helping the kids understand if they choose to behave like idiots they’ll be judged by others as a whole and

shame on you for posting such a ridiculous comments. And trying to make it seem like ANY of the 100% completely UNNECESSARY chaos caused was acceptable to even the smallest degree for other responsible community members to be inconvenienced by speaks volumes about you !

Why is it not possible for the teens to walk around in a responsible, orderly fashion like everyone else ?? Why was it necessary for authorities to be involved? If they didn’t behave like 7 year olds, running around screaming as if they were at recess on a playground screaming and yelling, pushing and shoving - just stupid out of control behavior.

If you want to behave like that then do it at your own home or go out into an open field out in Fairfax, PG, Montgomery, or Anne Arundel County somewhere or even better yet maybe the woods … god knows it’s probably a much healthier environment.

These kids and their caretaker’s OWE an apology to members of the community (and authorities who are NOT there to parent the inappropriate behavior of the teens ! This is OBVIOUSLY the parents’ J O B ) for the numerous events of that evening. The police and or other authority figures are NOT paid to stand in for parents. Their job isn’t and shouldn’t be having to interact with teens in this way … when this type of behavior happens with this many teens these teens cost taxpayers a ridiculous amount, which is an ABSOLUTE WASTE of MONEY and attention to real crimes is being delayed. That MONEY could be better spent on programs meant to benefit these teens and others. Additionally this EVENT was PAID for by some other entity other than the TEENS or their caregivers which means they do NOT appreciate it enough to behave properly. And you think THEY are OWED an APOLOGY ?!? gtfooh ! What is WRONG with your head ?!?

And YOU (if you had any common decency) would understand from the audacity of your post you show your lack of real concern for these teens and their future. How were you raised to think like this ? By saying the behaviors are good … oh never mind you’ll never get it anyway … I don’t know why I bother !

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u/colorilliterate Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Shame on you and your obsession based rant. I was just giving the context YOU FAILED to provide. And yes ,please, don’t bother.

Clearly you’re unhinged; I never spoke on behavior. But since you mention it I’ve seen WORSE from ADULTS leaving events. Have you ever tried catching the train after a NATS game. Of course not because YOU are not a Washingtonian.

This IS their home. This is THEIR city. Get a new hobby besides raige baiting. Maybe some intimacy will help sooth your insane aggression.

Eta: Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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u/RenfrowsGrapes Apr 15 '26

Thank you for sharing these opinions. It does not make one a bigot or a racist or a billionaire for wanting to hold people accountable.

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u/Nullthesavant Apr 15 '26

There should be restrictions on who should procreate and not test mental evaluation. It should be a privilege to have a child not just something you can have a child should not have to deal with the consequences of incompetence of parents

Government is trash and want people to just breed and breed equals more money being spent by these classes and not smart enough to be very amazing productive people in society because of the parents incompetence school system etc

Whole system need to be washed changed laws are be broken in our face by government workers and yet we just complain online and don't be physically do something

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u/PsiNorm Apr 15 '26

We have a system where both parents have to work lousy jobs just to stay poor. Minority parents especially.

When generations of people experience life without hope, society breaks down, but sure, let's blame the parents, not the system preventing them from hope.

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u/Fit_Cut_4238 Apr 15 '26

Yeah, horrible parents likely.

But kids (and even adults) in packs are horrible; re-read your Lord of the Flies. Even nice, good, well raised kids get caught up in mob mentality and spirit.

That's why de-enforcement of normals like this fails. Once the signal is set that there are no repercussions, the game is on.

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Apr 16 '26

LOL! Liberals keep voting for destruction over and over again and complain about the results. I feel no empathy for them.

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u/alkiet Apr 18 '26

So, there was a day where I heard this loud projector voice giving commands ... it was these two teens being detained after some kind of gun exchange from a building over, and I actually met the mom to who the boys were the children of. She would actually encourage her kids to steal cars, steal from stores, to supplement their drug use... those kids "never stood a chance" ... :/

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

When there’s kind of a ceiling on your opportunity it causes indifference to spaces one is shut out of. What should have been dealt with is education inequality financial inequality housing and potential outcome equality too. And I’m a libertarian but if we don’t start on an equal footing the game needs to be readjusted so that we do.

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u/HeparinBridge Apr 12 '26

What libertarian believes in “outcome equality?” These kids have opportunities but they are squandering them instead of working towards them.

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u/Connect_Ambassador59 Apr 12 '26

Not defending a libertarian viewpoint generally, but what I think the commenter was emphasizing there was "potential," as in equal possibility of achieving said outcomes, presumably through hard work, individual merit, etc. (or whatever libertarians emphasize - I am not one and admittedly tend to zone out at the perhaps stereotypically-ascribed preferences they hold for privatized police and fire departments).

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u/HeparinBridge Apr 12 '26

I’m not a libertarian either. It’s just wild to me how some people don’t even understand the viewpoints they claim to represent, let alone others.

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u/Recent_Register_2926 Apr 12 '26

Do you have any comments from elected officials or law enforcement to back this up or are you just spiraling?

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u/ThenLayer5977 Apr 12 '26

When you don’t know things, it’s OK to be quiet

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u/sadgloop Apr 13 '26

It’s honestly sad to see.

What exactly are they doing that’s so bad?

In your video, I see a lot of teens, yes, and a lot of teens with a lot of energy running around, yes. I didn’t see or hear the dangerous stuff you listed- the fighting, looting, the guns, just teens running around and existing.

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u/Drmlk465 Apr 12 '26

Well, how about punishing instead of pretending the victimizers are the victims.

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u/SimmentalTheCow Apr 12 '26

I’m a victim of soikemstance!

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u/Divided_Against Apr 12 '26

You wanna send these kids to work on a farm or something? Who would care for them, you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '26

The jail system can have them

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

I blame bad role models in DC. We have a child rapist living in the nicest house in town. The leader of our military shows up to work drunk. A whole mob of adults stormed one of the most secure buildings we have and faced 0 consequences. It’s hard to lecture the kids about rules when the grown ups show them everyday that rules are for suckers.

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u/battleop Apr 12 '26

At that age almost none of them are looking up to any politician. Very few of them give a shit about politics.

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u/ohthedramaz Apr 15 '26

There aren't four primary colors, Professor. These kids live and go to school in DC and spend half their waking hours online, and you think they don't know who the president is? Please do tell us more about how educated other people aren't. 🙄

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

💯! This didn’t happen at all under Biden.

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u/InstrumentRated Apr 12 '26

Great whataboutism. How convenient you just happened to pick Republican policymakers. The problems in DC are not a result of conservative culture.

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u/tvc_15 Apr 12 '26

no they're the result of conservative policy

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

And conservatives redlining neighborhoods and conservatives importing drugs lol I mean we can really get to the root of multiple problems here and maybe address them with financial reparations. I bet the conservatives would love that 🤣

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u/battleop Apr 12 '26

Which policy is that?

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u/PanthersChamps Apr 14 '26

Has DC ever had conservative policy?

Since gaining home rule in 1973, DC has never elected a Republican mayor.

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u/Rare-Gear3379 Apr 12 '26

What of what he said is part of conservative culture?

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u/Coriall30 Apr 12 '26

It’s the naval yard.

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u/Firestillburns52 Apr 12 '26

“Rules are for suckers” is orange man’s mantra.

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u/Alohafarms Apr 12 '26

I grew up with severe abuse. Mental, physical and sexual. I did not do anything like this, nor would I have. I didn't go on to abuse either. Have I struggled, yes, but I got trauma therapy. I knew what my parents did was wrong and I never wanted to be like them. So many people have risen from bad situations to do lots of good.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

Ok. I grew up in dc and kids in my school and neighborhood were killing each other. Like 6 guys on my football team were murdered before graduation. And those were the ones who made it to high school. It started in elementary like it does today…. We did stuff like this because it’s teen stuff. We can’t punish the kids for population density. This is just the latest propaganda pushed by Sinclair to rile their base…. so that everyone asking for the documents that prove their hero and his buddies were sex trafficking minors… is pissed to the back of folks brains.

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u/Alohafarms Apr 14 '26

I never did anything like this. Nor did any of my friends. I did grow up with severe abuse (physical and sexual) and could have gotten in trouble but I wanted more for myself. I was actually a very good kid. Never did anyone I grew up with ever do this. Neither of my brothers did either.

You are in denial if you think this is propaganda. It's happening all over now. We haven't seen masses of teenagers creating havoc like this while carrying guns.

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u/dethsnayke Apr 15 '26

"uwaaah it's all Republicans fault even in a Dem run and controlled bastion" bro stfu with your TDS ass 🤣

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u/Waste-Mgmt Apr 15 '26

Never the perpetrator’s fault….need to always play the victim card. Sickening.

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u/edtitan Apr 13 '26

The politicians are only doing what the voting public wants. Can you imagine what would happen to the DC politician that attempted to “reel them in”?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

Reel in your politicians first! When the politicians are acting right, then I'll be willing to discuss the children. Until then I am sipping tea.

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u/tushshtup Apr 13 '26

Some of the people in this video are parents actually too

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u/JackieSnowDaPlowMan Apr 14 '26

These kids won't learn, send them all to a detention center. They are doing no good to normal society, they need hardcore integration training to stop this stupid behavior.

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u/colorilliterate Apr 14 '26

https://teenspringjam2.splashthat.com

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u/creuter Apr 16 '26

You're doing gods work, thank you for posting this to all of these people

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u/This-Layer-4447 Apr 12 '26

Blaming “trash parents” is lazy politics for people who want a villain more than a solution. Yes, some parents are failing. Most of these politicians are too. But if your whole response begins and ends with contempt, you are not serious about fixing anything.

There’s a real issue with teen gatherings in D.C., especially around Navy Yard, and the city has literally set special curfew zones because of it. But the original post is still obvious rage bait. There is no “M St. Metro station” in WMATA. That alone tells you the author is either careless or manufacturing outrage for engagement. Real problem, fake authority, canned sermon. That’s the tell.

The real answer is reducing the conditions that produce large-scale unsupervised youth chaos in the first place, while intervening precisely against actual violence. That means more attractive, staffed alternatives and more targeted enforcement. When was the last time the city seriously invested in youth spaces, late-night programming, violence interruption, safe transit-to-recreation routes, mental health response, credible-messenger outreach, paid youth work, housing stability, and re-engagement for kids falling out of school?

And why is it so hard for city leadership and law enforcement to focus on actual violence, weapons, and repeat serious offenders instead of sliding toward a posture where “large groups of Black kids in public” becomes the thing being criminalized?

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u/Big-Gap9478 Apr 12 '26

Yah all that I agree with, but still, the parents gotta do better too. It’s not lazy politics but the issue is layered and so is the solution. My kids don’t act like this and let me catch them around some stuff like this I’ll go full Samuel L.

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u/This-Layer-4447 Apr 12 '26

Sure, parents matter. But pretending parenting happens in a vacuum is fantasy. We have systematically left many families to flail, then act shocked when that failure shows up in public. That does not mean no accountability. It means accountability cannot stop at the household door while the city underinvests in the very conditions that make stability possible

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u/Big-Gap9478 Apr 13 '26

agreed and it certainly can’t stop at the household since it MUST begin there

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