Last Friday, officers on patrol in Lake City busted a teen for carrying several knives while he was hanging out near a community center.
According to a police report, officers spotted a group of teens sitting in the park behind the community center, which was hosting a hip hop night. Police smelled marijuana and contacted two teens they saw blowing smoke, the report says. Officers asked one boy if they could search his backpack, and found a foot-long machete in his bag.
The boy told the officers the weapon was for self-defense, the report says. When police patted the teen down, they also found a three-inch blade in his pocket.
The teen was driven to his home in Lake City and released to his mother. Police are requesting weapons charges be filed against the boy.
On May 15, a teenage girl was reportedly assaulted at the Lake City Community Center. That same night, police also detained and released a group of young men in possession of a bulletproof vest and suspected crack cocaine near the community center.
In other unfortunate-and-tenuously-connected-with-hip-hop-news, it appears that a man who was stabbed outside of a Fremont hip hop show was friends with members of local rap group Black Senate, who’ve already had plenty of problems in the last year. Find out more over on Line Out.
He should have brought some plastic buckets to drum on, then he could have claimed he was a musician exempt from our laws …
machetes don’t hack people up people hack people up
Que “Divershitty” troll in 5,4,3…
A machete? I thought Juggalos usually carried hatchets?
celebrate divershitty!
Someone should tell that kid that when a police officer asks if he may search you or your belongings, the best answer is always “no”. Do you suppose the officer fooled the boy into thinking that his request was a demand?
See also: Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters” from the Flex Your Rights Foundation (or on Google Video) and their FAQ.
@6,
A lot of people cave to authority right away.
But that sort of stuff should be taught in a required civics course in public schools.
Looks like he should have listened to Crack Stuntman’s PSA:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/2manyknive…
@6: Agreed. I’m not thrilled that teenagers were smoking weed and packing machetes outside a hiphop show, but neither do I think that anyone should just roll over and let the cops fuck them in the ass.
Posession of a machete? You guys are pussies in Seattle.
@6 and @9 are correct.
Rights don’t magically appear, you have to insist on them.