A woman was the victim of an attempted strong arm robbery on Southside Saturday night, according to police.
The 17-year-old woman was walking on Channing Way near Telegraph Avenue around 8:45 p.m. Saturday when she was approached by two females, according to a UCPD crime alert released Monday.
The suspects demanded that the victim hand over her iPhone and threatened bodily harm, according to the crime alert. The victim managed to maintain possession of her iPhone, and the suspects fled westbound on Channing, according to the alert.
Berkeley police officers were unable to locate the suspects after searching the area.
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Get you some pepper spray and learn to use it. Don’t be hunting by profile, but do defend yourself if accosted. Another thing; Thieves and muggers are every color of the rainbow and when you show off your wealth- goodies you take for granted- you’re just begging to get held up. They are emboldened by the fact that you won’t carry weapons of self defense, either because law denies you the right or you’re too ignorant to do so.
Criminals may come in every color of the rainbow but I’ve never seen a Green guy randomly run up and punch a girl on the sidewalk (Yay Telegraph!), or a fat Blue lady yell racial epitaphs at a mother with her young daughter on a bus, or an orange guy wave a gun out a car window. There are no “Purple” sections of town that I must avoid in fear of being singled out and victimized because of my color. I don’t have to constantly deal with groups of Indigo people yelling vulgar things at my girlfriend in public. I don’t have Red neighbors blasting terrible music in my apartment building at all hours of the night then threatening me when I ask politely for them to stop. Hell, I would be absolutely shocked if I turned on the local news one day and saw an endless string of Violet people wanted for murder, rape, and shootings.
BUT
I have seen/experienced all those things and the people committing these acts were very monochromatic (mono=one, chromatic=of color). Unless my white-privilege has made my eyes and ears lie to me all these years, the people committing most of crimes are not every color of the rainbow at all. They’re the color that appears when the lights go out, not when its refracted. Profiling could save lives……..why let white guilt get you killed?
Hey Adelyn Baxter, if I ran one of the nations top new papers I wouldn’t hire you
And yet again the Daily Cal deliberately deletes the suspects’ race (which was black, by the way) from the UCPD police bulletin.
Yet another triumph for the glory of political correctness!
Channing Way Near Telegraph AvenueApril 14, 2012
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, at approximately 8:45 p.m., an attempted strong-arm robbery occurred on Channing near Telegraph Avenue. The victim, a 17 year old unknown affiliation female, was walking on Channing when she was approached by two females. The female suspects threatened to harm the victim if she didn’t give them her iPhone. The victim was able to hold onto her phone. The suspects fled the scene on foot westbound on Channing. The victim was not injured during the encounter. BPD searched the area but was unable to locate the suspects.The suspects are described as:
Suspect #1 – A Black female juvenile, approximately 17 years old, with a thin build, 5’6” in height, and wearing an orange top, a dark coat and dark pants.
Suspect #2 – A Black female teenage juvenile, with an average build, 5’4”-5’5” in height, wearing dark jeans.One of the two suspects was wearing a white beanie cap.
Wow, all these crimes seem to be committed by black males and black females and the Daily Cal never includes the criminals’ race for some reason. I wonder why…
That’s because telling the truth is racist! ;D
And yet the Daily Cal doesn’t have a problem with printing a suspect’s race on the rare occassion that he or she is white.
Weird.
To be fair, I don’t think this is true.