Wizbang notes that gangbangers in Boston have used a marketing approach to scare the public into keeping quiet. Now that their "Stop Snitching" t-shirts have gone public, I think their plan is about to backfire.
A teenage City Hall day-care worker who wore a gangbanger "Stop Snitching'' T-shirt to work yesterday has the district attorney seeing red and Hub officials vowing to re-educate its summer employees. "We've had too many cases in this city in recent years that go unsolved because people are unwilling to cooperate,'' said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley. "This is the type of wardrobe I'd recommend employees in City Hall or anywhere in society stop wearing.''The teenager is a summer hire working at the city-run day-care center. He was spotted with the controversial T-shirt while accompanying his little charges on a trip to the New England Aquarium.
In Boston last year, the mother of one gang member accused of gunning down 10-year-old Trina Persad made "Stop Snitching'' T-shirts for spectators to wear at her son's trial. Authorities have said they consider the shirts a gang intimidation tactic.
No kidding. Talk about trying to instill some seriously warped values into your child.
Posted by kswygert at July 22, 2005 12:52 PM