On the sunny last Saturday of March, 6-year-old Inez O’Brien and her mom Ellena headed home to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn after going out for mother-daughter haircuts.
They exited the J train at Halsey Street, planning to pop into a bodega on their way.
As they passed PS 137, Inez’s school, they saw a group of five pre-teens, all about 11 or 12, who were obviously out to make trouble.
The kids had surrounded a car in the street and were bashing it with the plastic barrels of their Nerf toy guns.
Once the car sped off, the gang looked for a fresh target.
“Let’s get that lady, now!” one shouted.
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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
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