Teens with AK-47 arrested after fleeing onto Trump's Mar-a-Lago

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Teens with AK-47 arrested after fleeing onto Trump's Mar-a-Lago

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is seen after local authorities restricted the activities of restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and other similar businesses and asked residents to practice 'social distancing' for precaution due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Palm Beach, Florida U.S., March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Police in Florida said three teenage boys were arrested after they entered U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with an AK-47 in a backpack.

 

Palm Beach Police Spokesman Michael Ogrodnick said the three 15-year-old boys jumped a wall at Mar-a-Lago while fleeing a police officer late last Friday.

 

The officer had approached the boys as they sat in a car a few miles north of the resort. The boys sped off in the car, trying to escape. They abandoned the car near Mar-a-Lago when they saw another police cruiser and escaped onto the grounds of the resort, Ogrodnick said.

 

“They didn’t try to get into any buildings, they just jumped over the wall and tried to hide,” he said.

 

Trump was not at the resort when the incident took place.

 

The teens, who were not identified, are being held in a juvenile facility while prosecutors decide if they should be charged as adults. The teens have denied they owned the AK-47, saying they had found it.

 

Trump’s resort has been the scene of several invasions since he became president.

 

In January, two women were arrested after police opened fire on them for running two security checkpoints nearby, in a car chase not related to Trump.

 

In February, a Chinese woman was sentenced to six months in jail for resisting arrest during an incident last year when she entered Mar-a-Lago without permission. That took place just months after another Chinese woman was found guilty of lying to federal officers and trespassing onto the resort.

 

(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

 

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[Tug]

Those kids are lucky they dident get shot!idiots!

[Yinn]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

after they entered U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with an AK-47 in a backpack.

 

 the three 15-year-old boys

Amazing USA.

[Emdog]

Outrageous! Packing an AK-47!

Why didn't they carry an AR-15? Buy American first, not this commie stuff!

[Puchaiyank]

I suspect the NRA dropped the AK-47 there as a gift to be found by visitors...

 

Too bad the kids were arrested in Florida...NY or Californian and they go free...just protesters having a little fun...

[EVENKEEL]

39 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Amazing USA.

Yes it is. Thank you.

[Chomper Higgot]

If papers before the courts are to believed, it’s a far more dangerous place for teenage girls to enter.

[bendejo]

Surely this president allows open carry of weapons at his country club, the god-given 2nd Amendment and all that.

 

[Eric Loh]

NRA will be proud of these teens exercising their 2nd amendment rights to bear arms. How is the NRA good for America.  

[Bender Rodriguez]

self defence?

[MaxYakov]

Teens who abandoned a car with an AK they said they "found". Let me guess...

[Enzian]

Florida is the gift that keeps on giving. Years ago Dr Drew had a regular segment on his radio show with Adam Carola where some bizarre event would be described and listeners would be invited to guess if it happened "in Germany or Florida", it was always one or the other.

[skytrooper70]

42 minutes ago, MaxYakov said:

Teens who abandoned a car with an AK they said they "found". Let me guess...

Guess what? At 15 yo, they're too young to have been driving a car, in FL, legally. Must have "borrowed" it and "found" the AK-47 inside.

[skytrooper70]

Just now, skytrooper70 said:

Guess what? At 15 yo, they're too young to have been driving a car, in FL, legally. Must have "borrowed" it and "found" the AK-47 inside.

 

[rudi49jr]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Those kids are lucky they dident get shot!idiots!

Anyone want to bet they were white kids?

[MaxYakov]

1 hour ago, skytrooper70 said:

2 hours ago, MaxYakov said:

Teens who abandoned a car with an AK they said they "found". Let me guess...

Guess what? At 15 yo, they're too young to have been driving a car, in FL, legally. Must have "borrowed" it and "found" the AK-47 inside.

If you don't know, you're in a pretty lame position - pretty lame across the board with your comment. Too young to have been driving a car? But not too young to play "Grand Theft Auto" for real and run from the cops for real. But I was speculating about another element of this weird story.

 

I hope you were simply being sarcastic (but not really very good at it, IMHO).

 

Keep guessing. You may hit upon it by pure random chance.

[natway09]

Pity they did not succeed. They were trying to do the world a favour.

[Jonnapat]

6 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Yes it is. Thank you.

Well it used to be.

[OneMoreFarang]

7 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

I suspect the NRA dropped the AK-47 there as a gift to be found by visitors...

 

Too bad the kids were arrested in Florida...NY or Californian and they go free...just protesters having a little fun...

Yeah, like these.

 

[DrTuner]

As far as stupidity goes, this one is a good effort.

[thaichina]

4 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Anyone want to bet they were white kids?

Anyone wants to bet you re a racist?

[CorpusChristie]

3 hours ago, natway09 said:

Pity they did not succeed. They were trying to do the world a favour.

Did you read the story ?

They just tried to hide from the Police and coincidently , the place they hid, was owned by Trump 

[Logosone]

Was it that British kid again?

 

Later, Michael wrote a statement saying that he wanted to “shoot and kill Donald Trump,” adding, “Donald Trump is a racist, he deserves to die.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/7821b5b9-4dda-4225-8bc0-e172f7d6ef70

[CorpusChristie]

2 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Was it that British kid again?

 

Later, Michael wrote a statement saying that he wanted to “shoot and kill Donald Trump,” adding, “Donald Trump is a racist, he deserves to die.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/7821b5b9-4dda-4225-8bc0-e172f7d6ef70

He had mental health problems 

[Sujo]

1 minute ago, CorpusChristie said:

He had mental health problems 

Of course, only white kids have mental issues, everyone else are terrorists.

[CorpusChristie]

Just now, Sujo said:

Of course, only white kids have mental issues, everyone else are terrorists.

He was diagnosed as having mental problems whilst still at school some years before

[Sujo]

6 hours ago, skytrooper70 said:

Guess what? At 15 yo, they're too young to have been driving a car, in FL, legally. Must have "borrowed" it and "found" the AK-47 inside.

Too young to drive. Too young to vote. But gimme them machine guns any time.

[rudi49jr]

35 minutes ago, thaichina said:

Anyone wants to bet you re a racist?

I merely wanted to point out that, had the kids been black, they would have been far more likely to be shot by the police.

[MaxYakov]

2 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

3 hours ago, thaichina said:

Anyone wants to bet you re a racist?

I merely wanted to point out that, had the kids been black, they would have been far more likely to be shot by the police.

Yeah, you're probably right because there's an off-chance that they would do something really stupid and threatening to the police (like pull an AK on them, for example) or resist arrest while having a reaction to drugs (George Floyd [link] - recently released police body cam and autopsies) or try to grab a policeman's gun and then assault him (Michael Brown [link] - Grand Jury) or resist arrest, grab a policeman's Taser and try to shoot him with it (Rayshard Brooks [link] - body cams and various videos) just for starters. Unfortunately, if the criminal acts are by black people, then it's turning out to be the cop's fault, especially if the cops happen to be white.

 

Far more whites doing criminal acts that are threatening the police are being shot than blacks. If one is doing any of the above, then anyone white, black or any shade of skin color is risking having deadly force used on them. Capeesh?

 

 

Edited August 7, 2020 by MaxYakov

[Redline]

16 hours ago, MaxYakov said:

Teens who abandoned a car with an AK they said they "found". Let me guess...

We’ll, there are 390,000,000 guns in the USA-owned by civilizations, and that’s only legally sold.  So it could be one of them was laying around, or someone else dropped it being chased by the cops