Yesterday, City Pages posted a link to a YouTube video of a group of Somali boys “knocking bikers over, tackling unsuspecting runners from behind, shoving kids and generally threatening folks for what appeared to be the pure fun of it.” Well, apparently, viewers at Mpls Bike Love and other local sites identified the neighborhood, near Central High School on Lexington Avenue in St. Paul, as well as some of the assailants, sparking a police investigation. YouTube has pulled the video, due to violent content, but you can see an archived version here.
Hopefully, this will start a (very stupid) trend of posting crime videos on YouTube, and we can start a new era of online citizen policing. Why not?
Latest comment — Gabriel Cheifetz: Skug and jane - I pretty much agree. (Boring!)