Wild Teens Trash Court Street B&N, Assault Manager
A reader sent in a disturbing account of a visit yesterday afternoon to the Court Street Barnes & Noble. While she was on the second floor, she noticed a large number of teens she believes were from one of the nearby public schools. In addition to being loud and disorderly, they were also purposefully knocking…
A reader sent in a disturbing account of a visit yesterday afternoon to the Court Street Barnes & Noble. While she was on the second floor, she noticed a large number of teens she believes were from one of the nearby public schools. In addition to being loud and disorderly, they were also purposefully knocking books off shelves. A few minutes later, as she headed down to the first floor, she witnessed an altercation between the manager and one of the teenagers. The manager had asked him to leave the store. “You disrespectin’ me?” the teen shouted back. No, that’s why I’m asking you nicely to leave, but you need to leave, reiterated the manager. Then, wham, the teen wound up and socked the manager in the face, bloodying him and knocking him over, and took off down the street. Rather than stick around to help i.d. the assailant, whom our tipster overheard some of the kids saying they knew where he lived, the rest of them took off as well. No word on whether the cops caught the guy. Update: Turns out that someone did call the cops and they came very quickly, but the assailant had already fled.
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propjoe does that to troll….he’s actually black and thinks of himself as highly educated & successful
So where was the security guard!!!!???? Coffee break??
east new york- I lived half a block away form the B&N and still go there quite frequently. they do have a security guard and have always had one.
My question is why no one called the cops who saw what was happening.
propjoe- please stop making useless, inflammatory comments.
Live in Fort Greene, not dirty Jersey
There is most certainly a security guard in the Court Street B&N. I know because I looked the other day to see whether I would have to check my library book at the door, like the security guard at the Seventh Avenue B&N makes me. (BookCourt rules!)
East New York,
That someone got a beating a block from my house for no reason whatsoever is certainly important news to me. Could have happened to any one of us. The fact that there’s more serious crime going on would excuse all criminal activity short of murder. Hardly an acceptable approach for most of us.
“We can send them to the new prison on Atlantic Ave. Thanks Bloomberg for destroying a vibrant neighborhood. Seriously, what is wrong with these people. Prison should go in poor hoods like Bed Stuy or Bushwick or East NY, not Cobble Hill/Downtown. D’uh!”
propjoe lives with polemicist in Lodi. they rent from the What.
No, PS…its assault, pure and simple. On the “disrespectin” thing, many people don’t understand that free speach is free speach but assault is an inappropriate response and also a crime punishable by imprisonment!!!
The irony here is guess who has more rights if this comes to legal action?
The kids.
Some punks knocked down shelves and slapped a bookstore manager, who bled. I didn’t read where the injuries will be life-threatening. The reader followed the episode, but somehow didn’t simply walk outside and find a cop. The bookstore, located in the middle of downtown Brooklyn, doesn’t have a security guard, yet management is presumably shocked – SHOCKED – that this could have occurred! Mr. Brownstoner is also shocked – SHOCKED – that a bunch of teen-agers didn’t snitch on another misbehaving teen-ager, which is actually pretty predictable. Suffice it to say there are more serious crimes going down in Brooklyn. It’s too bad this happened, but sorry, this is not news.