A boy with a squeegee
Squeegee boys in Baltimore lay down violent cac
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IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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My mindset is that if I say "no" and they wash my windows anyway, they're not getting paid. No need for a baseball bat...just accept the free wash since they insist on providing services that were not requested.
Easiest way to teach the youngins not to offer shyt that wasn't asked for.
White guy got mad and attacked people. Can't do that.
I don't have an issue with it, this is a clear case of desperate kids trying to make money by rendering a service that no want wants, the people who have to deal with them on a daily basis have an issue with it.
I don't disagree with this. The second video in the OP deals with what you're touching on, an officer is trying to communicate this exact idea to one of the workers and he wasn't trying to hear it.
We dont have water boys or squeege boys in Detroit...probably because its too cold 9 months out of the year. Rudy Guiliani created a "quality of life law" in the 90's and got rid of the "squeege men " in NYC. It might be time for Baltimore to do the same thing.
Personally, I've never experienced any aggression and in a lot of cases the driver (usually a white person) pulls up already aggressive and mad, so instead of a simple "no thanks" it's "fukking no! Why don't you get a job?", etc. There are a lot of "Tim's" ready to pull up on a corner and correct what they feel is a wrong.
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Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
That a necessarily how it works. It depends on the temperament of the kid. After you say no:
1. Sometimes they just walk away
2. Say some disrespectful shyt
3. Ask for money anyway
4. Draw a heart or other item with the mysterious liquid
5 . Start breaking shyt on your car.
I've given money for the "service," politely declined the service, and even hopped out my car, gave some bread, and offered my cell phone number to make connections to work and services. Never had anyone serious enough to send me as much as a text. That aint all the kids, and surely I have not reached a fraction of them. Back when Mayor Pugh was in office she tried to make the program more legit and give them an actual space but I moved out the state before seeing what happened with it.
Brolic
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This. The water boys there do the same thing. I worked in bmore for 4 months and never had any problems with them. I don’t see how it’s harassment.
You can’t replace a “job” with a method that provides cash daily. Cash everyday means you meet needs daily, a job means working at least two weeks before seeing a dime.
My suggestion was to put them on a path to bidding on government contracts. A lot of dirty windows in the city and a contract can yield to more solid financial options.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
I hear you.
I'm 40 and have been driving since the late 90s so maybe I've just lucked out the whole time. I've only really encountered them on MLK, harbor east, president street, north Ave, etc...
That's just my experience though. Shaking my head no or just saying I ain't got no money has usually gotten me by where the youngins would keep it pushing and go to the next car.
saturn7
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Squeegee kid: 'If they were teaching me something, I'd be in school'
The incident hasn't deterred one squeegee kid, who didn’t want to show his face or give his full name, only telling FOX45 News he wanted to be identified as Jay. Jay said he’s been squeegeeing since 2019 and the only concern he has isn’t about getting hit by a driver.
“We worry about getting shot out here,” Jay said. “You gotta give respect to earn respect."
“If he would have stayed in his car and never got out, none of that would have happened,” Jay said, referring to Timothy Reynolds, 48, who was identified as the man who was shot and killed at the corner of Light and Conway Streets. “They always trying to act tough and think they can get out of the car, but they don’t know what we have. They gotta stop doing that. It’s 2022.”
Jay works on the corner where there’s an abundance of traffic. His corner isn’t far from Baltimore City Public Schools Headquarters; the main building for the school system sits atop several steps on North Avenue.
“Them City Schools, that’s bullshyt,” Jay said.
He dropped out of high school when he was in the 9th grade, he said, after feeling like he wasn’t truly learning anything. He called the school system phony.
“They [are] not teaching us. We’re learning the same shyt over and over and over,” he said. “They not really teaching us about our Black history, nothing. Shows you the school system is not no good.”
FOX45 News’ Project Baltimore has been investigating and documenting the failures in some Baltimore City schools for more than five years. When looking at the first three-quarters of the 2020-2021 school year, 41% of high school students in Baltimore City Public Schools earned a 1.0 GPA or lower; that means nearly half of the 20,000 public high school students earned less than a D-average during that time.
Enrollment is also dropping across the school system. From 2016 to 2021, City Schools lost about 6,000 students, according to Project Baltimore’s findings.
Jay is one of those 6,000 students who dropped out of school in Baltimore City. He said if he wouldn’t have dropped out of school, he probably wouldn’t be standing on the corner of Mt. Royal and North Avenues squeegeeing.
“I’d still be in school. I swear I’d still be in school,” he said. “If they were really teaching me something I would be in school. I want to be learning.”
But even if Jay would have stayed in school, there’s a chance he wouldn’t have graduated high school. In 2021, the graduation rate in Baltimore City dropped to 69%, according to Project Baltimore; three years prior, 72% of high school students were graduating. The Maryland average high school graduation rate is 87%.
“There’s absolutely a correlation between the squeegee kids and the broken education system in Baltimore City,” said Pastor Shannon Wright, a community activist and a former Republican candidate for mayor.
The incident hasn't deterred one squeegee kid, who didn’t want to show his face or give his full name, only telling FOX45 News he wanted to be identified as Jay. Jay said he’s been squeegeeing since 2019 and the only concern he has isn’t about getting hit by a driver.
“We worry about getting shot out here,” Jay said. “You gotta give respect to earn respect."
“If he would have stayed in his car and never got out, none of that would have happened,” Jay said, referring to Timothy Reynolds, 48, who was identified as the man who was shot and killed at the corner of Light and Conway Streets. “They always trying to act tough and think they can get out of the car, but they don’t know what we have. They gotta stop doing that. It’s 2022.”
Jay works on the corner where there’s an abundance of traffic. His corner isn’t far from Baltimore City Public Schools Headquarters; the main building for the school system sits atop several steps on North Avenue.
“Them City Schools, that’s bullshyt,” Jay said.
He dropped out of high school when he was in the 9th grade, he said, after feeling like he wasn’t truly learning anything. He called the school system phony.
“They [are] not teaching us. We’re learning the same shyt over and over and over,” he said. “They not really teaching us about our Black history, nothing. Shows you the school system is not no good.”
FOX45 News’ Project Baltimore has been investigating and documenting the failures in some Baltimore City schools for more than five years. When looking at the first three-quarters of the 2020-2021 school year, 41% of high school students in Baltimore City Public Schools earned a 1.0 GPA or lower; that means nearly half of the 20,000 public high school students earned less than a D-average during that time.
Enrollment is also dropping across the school system. From 2016 to 2021, City Schools lost about 6,000 students, according to Project Baltimore’s findings.
Jay is one of those 6,000 students who dropped out of school in Baltimore City. He said if he wouldn’t have dropped out of school, he probably wouldn’t be standing on the corner of Mt. Royal and North Avenues squeegeeing.
“I’d still be in school. I swear I’d still be in school,” he said. “If they were really teaching me something I would be in school. I want to be learning.”
But even if Jay would have stayed in school, there’s a chance he wouldn’t have graduated high school. In 2021, the graduation rate in Baltimore City dropped to 69%, according to Project Baltimore; three years prior, 72% of high school students were graduating. The Maryland average high school graduation rate is 87%.
“There’s absolutely a correlation between the squeegee kids and the broken education system in Baltimore City,” said Pastor Shannon Wright, a community activist and a former Republican candidate for mayor.
BmoreGorilla
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I never had one issue with them. If I have a couple slugs on me I always break them off
They stay giving white folks the blues tho
That being said I usually try to drive on streets where I know they won’t be
They stay giving white folks the blues tho
That being said I usually try to drive on streets where I know they won’t be
I Really Mean It
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The persistence of the squeegee boys’ solicitations doesn’t give you a right to hop out of your car and confront them while wielding an aluminum bat.
