Bryan Bartels, 20, tried to turn a peaceful protest in Pittsburgh, PA, into a riot by vandalizing a police vehicle. Protestors — voicing their objection to police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd — tried to stop the man-boy later dubbed “Antifa Kid”. A co-worker saw the video and ratted him out, then Mommy and Daddy marched him to the police station. Good.
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12 replies on “Antifa Kid in BIG Trouble: Man-Boy Rioter Gets Marched to Police by Mommy & Daddy”
I understand the praise of the protesters that ‘told’ this young man to ‘stop’ when he assaulted the police vehicle but I would not overdue the praise as the protesters ‘did nothing’ to stop him.
I am going to predict this get plead to a misdemeanor and community service and he doesn’t learn a thing. Too bad, because if that does happen he might eventually actually join Antifa. Scared straight is a term that comes to mind.
God Bless the parents – Having been a less than perfect & obedient son, as I matured I realized the pain I caused them and finally got on the right track… It was their “tough Love” that got me there— Thanks mom and dad……
If you think this kid was Antifa, you’re sorely mistaken. He is nothing more than a wanna be “poser”. An analogy would be if he was wearing a fake Hell’s Angels jacket and you were calling him a Hell’s Angel gang member. ANTIFA is a well funded highly organized Terrorist group. Lara Logan has just done a great investigative report on them. They have highly technical encryption for secrecy, highly scrutinized vetting process to become a member, etc…They are the real deal when it comes to Terrorist Organization not only here but around the world.
Dangerous instigators are all too common in these emotional circumstances. The problem is not that they exist. The problem is that there are not enough people (like those that caught and bagged this miscreant) to keep the instigators in line.
Maybe someone should kneel, and let him know this is real, and we care.
I grew up in a neighborhood where all of the kids parents had authority over all of us. Basically, our parents ganged up and made sure we were all behaving ourselves. We had a cop that lived down the street and a guy that worked for the phone company that would listen in on the girls phone calls to make sure we weren’t sneaking around and seeing that “boy” that we weren’t allowed to hang around with. We couldn’t get away with much as a result.
Parents are no longer parents. They’re friends and they turn the kids over to the schools to tend to them. Instead of being taught right vs. wrong behavior, they’re first taught where their safe spaces are, then ushered into diversity training where they learn about their white privilege, minority oppression and micro-aggressions. Kids from affluent families, in particular, are taught that they need to get out of the way of the minority segment du jour and support their [taught] oppressions. The parents, if lucky, wake up when their kid is out of control.
So although I applaud the parents for frog-marching this kid to the police, I also have to ask where were they when this kid’s social mores were being formed? If their actions are sincere, I hope they can turn this kid around. But I’m not holding my breath as I don’t look good in blue.
When I was 17 and outta HS, not only couldn’t I get outta my folks house fast enough, I couldn’t get outta the state and to the big city fast enough.
Kids today….
I like that Scott brought out the positive aspects of this story. I really do hope that there are many more responsible people stepping up during these times.
The biggest reason we don’t see more of this self-policing is that most of the protesters don’t care if there is violence, rioting and looting. Only if it threatens their protest. We don’t see much of it because it is rare.
I applaud it, but my question is at this point what do the real protesters really want? Itn isn’t justice for Floyd or the officers involved because that is happening. Social justice is a myth, justice is individual. Police reform has only caused ineffective policing and created a under seige mentality within the police. This is not the mentality that results in self-policing of the bad cops by the good guys. Police unions are also part of the issue because they are motivated to obstruct the discipline of bad cops. Cops don’t trust their leadership because it has be politicized by “merit” promotions to create ethic and gender representation and bureaucratic unaccountability.and processes in the guise of reform.
We are likely to get more of this as a result of these protests and the division between the police and minority communities will widen as policing effectiveness further reclines. The hardest hit will be these communities. I expect this unrest to blow up repeatedly, more violently and on an even larger scale.
They have been carefully taught that they don’t live in reality and that actions don’t really have consequences. The cure for that is to bring the full force of reality upon them early and often.
Bryan Bartels was lucky that he was able to be marched to the police. In the real world, he should have been dropped to the ground as a consequence of his simply threatening to burn a police car.
It was his parents who had the responsibility for not raising a petty thug. They failed. Now the rest of us have to pay for their failure. Where is the justice in that?
My heart breaks with the Bartel family’s; that they accompanied him to his appropriate fate is proof of their success as parents. Errant children can come from the best of families who trained them up in the way they should go, leaving the parents to weep as the child wanders from poor choice to poor choice.
We do not know how this man-boy was raised, whether Mom & Dad bought him toys to shut him up or made him take out the trash. We should be grateful that they brought their petty thug to face justice.
And we should offer them love and support as they had to endure one of the hardest parts of parenting: watching their precious baby boy fail.
Maybe if Bryan changes, matures, and becomes a fine citizen, the Bartels can barbecue the fatted calf.