Clownery in this thread lol. I grew up in this neighborhood, and when this event occurred others I met who know Tyrone’s family, as well as witnesses to the event have said the cops basically immediately exited their cars and actually fired their weapons first. Yep, the cops shot first. Forgetting what is “legal” or the supposed “criminal history” Tyrone has, take into consideration this: you’re in a gang for whatever reason, you have a firearm to defend yourself if need be, and two random guys begin shooting at you unannounced in broad daytime? Yeah, you would shoot back.

> It’s smack in the middle of downtown.

Geographically (maybe), but not socially. Like, it used to be the case that there were more people when it was surrounded by offices and right across from the Fleet/Bank of America offices. But almost all of the buildings around it have tons of vacancies, and it’s centered in a bunch of parking. It’s not a “place” so to speak, it’s just a building out of the way.

Like, if you think about how people flow Downtown, they don’t flow east along Exchange and Weybosset. They mostly flow southwest down Washington and Westminster, south towards PPAC, or north toward the mall and train station. With the CIC and the beer garden and the pedestrian bridge, that’s a new destination.

But the Arcade is just sort of tangential to all of these flows, just a little too out of the way to attract the foot traffic it needs to thrive. That’s not its fault, of course, it’s just the reality after years of Downtown being hollowed out.

It’s possible to imagine a future where it’s the focal point of a journey with some creative placemaking, but I don’t think that’s necessarily what a lot of its neighbors care about.

No, I want to get where I'm going faster.

I do... when approaching these cameras.

Far too simplistic. We’re talking about the supply of affordable housing, which remains unchanged with the introduction of luxury units. Go back to Econ 101.

You’re advocating for a weird sort of trickle down housing which is almost offensive in how much it assumes the poor and working class stand to benefit from policies and practices that solely benefit the wealthy.

Downtown has added thousands of luxury units in the last decade. You’re telling me the guy looking to move in there is freeing up a unit of housing in silver lake? Give me a break.

CourtConnect is free and easy to use. I counted at least 8 different arrests / sets of charges from the start of 2018 up until (and not including) this incident in August of 2019.

That is a long-ass rap sheet. This isn't even fucking debatable.

That’s awesome! If rich people wanna build new houses & pay property taxes, why not? This will stop them buying up everything in poor neighborhoods and gentrifying them. Let’s take property taxes from the rich and pay teachers/firefighters/bus drivers what they deserve.

If Lamborghini produced more cars then they could sell, would that raise the price of a new Civic?

Price = Demand / Supply. In what world is that not true?

Those JWU students are no longer clogging up other city apartments; sounds like a win all around. Unless they're getting government handouts, if some developer builds a tower and can't sell the apartments, that's their problem, not ours. I suspect anyone willing to plow millions of dollars into something like this will have thought of that ahead of time.

Community Libraries of Providence has classes at the Rochambeau library on Wednesdays stating next week.

At the Knight Memorial Library, they have classes on Monday’s starting at the end of the month.

They also have a drop-in class to practice Spanish starting in February on Wednesdays.

They also just opened a virtual Spanish class Saturday mornings .

All classes are free, but a $25 donation is suggested.

You also have Mango for free through the libraries.

Just keep in mind, the downtown library is Providence Public Libraries.

The 9 other libraries in Providence are Community Libraries or Providence.

They are two entirely different systems. Although, when you use any library in Rhode Island, you have access to all the materials statewide.

>long-ass rap sheet

Once again just making shit up.

>You act as if cops don’t lie all the time and that journalists don’t publish those lies as fact

What are you specifically alleging is a lie here? Obviously, that fucking happens.

I think it's possible to acknowledge that and that maybe the dude with the long-ass rap sheet who tried to kill the cops on sight maybe isn't the good guy either. That's not middle ground the middle ground. It's just common sense.

Great more overpriced condos that will saturate a market that doesn’t need them.

This happened back before the financial crisis where they built the water place condos, Westin tower and that original condo building near the train station. The condos by the train station ended becoming jwu dorms because no one wanted them.

This is luxury housing. In what world will this free up market rate housing to alleviate the pressure? Hint, it won’t.

Nice!

You act as if cops don’t lie all the time and that journalists don’t publish those lies as fact. That cop has a history of harassing people. You keep giving your opinion on things you have zero fucking clue about. The epitome of some cringe ass armchair expert redditor.

Cops lie all the time, journalists publish those lies all the time.

It’s funny how you try to say something is divorced from reality, yet you’re the one who has zero experience in the kind of world he lives in. You’re damn right 40 years is too steep. They wanted to give him life. You know why prosecutors do that? They intentionally over charge to pressure people into pleading into lesser charges. This justice system is a sham. It’s always been like that specially for people of color. Maybe he should have become a cop instead. At least then he’d have gotten a paid vacation.

A) This is assuming they were plain clothes which is only coming from 1 person's "Dude, trust me"

B) One of those cops looks like he was ripped out of google image search for "cop haircut"

C) If you've had enough prior run-ins with law enforcement where they know you on sight, odds are you probably recognize a few cops yourself. As I just said in other comment, I think it's more likely that he knew exactly who they were, rather than he mistook them for rival gang members.

I dunno, why are you arguing in bad faith? The entire premise that these cops wearing body cameras were being mistaken for a gang threat is so far divorced for reality, I'm not even sure why I've wasted my time acknowledging it.

Even if that were plausible (and it isn't), what's the point? 40 years is too steep for the kid who turned Laundromax into the O.K. Corral?

I think a person could make a better case, based on his rap sheet, that he personally had prior interactions with these 2 cops than him mistaking them for random gang members.

Exactly what are they going to put in this monstrosity?

Because that dude likes to speak not from experience, but from his own judgmental point of views. He tried to tell me, someone who drives an ambulance for a living, that I should be fired if I drove the speed limit… as if I don’t know the rules and policies for my job.

Why are you profiling?

That cop sure does find himself in this kind situation a lot…

If those men were in plain clothes you wouldn’t think they were in gang? How can you come to that conclusion without seeing them in plain clothes I’m confused.

SO true, my life always felt less in danger at that 7-11 than the one up the street