Parents and politicians dismiss violence and robbery as ‘just kids being kids’By Andrea Peyser
August 7, 2023
After thousands of people — mostly young men — trashed cars and Union Square all because a social-media influencer said he was going to give away a PlayStation, Mayor Adams asked the logical question:
Where are the parents?
“This is not a policing issue, [it] is a parenting issue,’’ he said.
As if to unintentionally prove Hizzoner’s point, a mother of two of the rioters, aged 18 and 19, went ballistic — not on her older son, who admittedly assaulted a cop, but on police officers who prevented him from doing horrific damage,
“You cannot blame parents. This is the blame of society, of people who use their guns to harm rather than protect,” Stacy Lucas told The Daily News — though not one NYPD officer pulled a weapon.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/parents-and-politicians-dismiss-violence-and-robbery-as-just-kids-being-kids/
