Oh, no, not again! Montgomery County police responded to a report of a 2nd-degree assault at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on Thursday afternoon, August 8, 2024. The assault was reported at 3:16 PM. Like some of the assaults at the mall in 2024, Thursday's was related to a shoplifting attempt. This was the ninth assault police have responded to at the mall this year.
There were 12 assaults reported at the popular retail center in 2022. That number dropped to 5 last year, after the Montgomery County Police Department opened a "resource room" at the mall, in response to the 2022 numbers. But the violence has rebounded this year, with the mall now on pace to more than triple last year's assault total.
Was this a 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree assault or a love tap.
ReplyDeleteMe and my wife were strolling the mall the other day and had a group juvenile delinquents staring me down to pick a fight. It was both hilarious and sad. What can be done? Doubt anything unless there are better and harsher laws to deal with these problems.
ReplyDelete"unless there are better and harsher laws. . ."
DeleteDon't hold your breath on that. The part-time MGA specializes in inserting latent legal loopholes in the existing laws so that they can get their clients off the hook with minimal effort.
Putting in jail
ReplyDelete