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Six Joyriders Steal an R Train

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New York City police are searching for a group of people they say took a subway train on a joyride.

The department released images and video Wednesday of six individuals who they say commandeered an unoccupied “R” train over the weekend.

Surveillance video from inside the train shows the group, who all wore jackets with their hoods up, as they exited the conductor’s compartment and walked through the otherwise empty car.

A video of the group on their joyride was also shared on Instagram.

The clip shows one of them seated at the controls while another appears to be sitting on the outside of the car, their legs dangling over the edge.

“Cover your faces. Cover your faces,” one of them says on the video as the train accelerates through the tunnel.

The department said Thursday that they believe the joyride occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday at the 36th Street and 4th Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn.

Police and transit officials have not said how long and how far the suspects travelled in the stolen train. They said the suspects damaged glass panels on the train’s camera.

The group fled on foot, according to police. No injuries were reported.

Spokespersons for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said they are working with police on the investigation.

Police in September said two teens took an empty subway train in Queens on a brief joyride before crashing it and fleeing.

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STOP FILMING YOURSELF

Posted on by neversleep

It is a great idea to go out into the night and attack the structures of domination. It is a terrible idea to film yourself doing this and post the video on the internet. Yes, even if you covered up impeccably in clothing you never wore before and destroyed after, even if you used a pawn shop camera and cleaned the video of metadata, even if you submitted using Tor running on Tails at a cafe. When you film you are always snitching on yourself and encouraging others to do the same.

Everything in one of these videos is evidence: your height build and gait, the tools you used, how many of you were there, what you touched at the scene. The video’s pixels can be traced to the recording device using digital forensics just like a bullet can be traced to the barrel it came from. If you used a phone to record, cell towers tracked your location every step of the way, even if location services or the phone itself were off. Think the cops won’t go this far for some broken windows and paint? Are you willing to bet your freedom on it? I wouldn’t.

If you agree that symbolic arrest is meaningless, if you would grab your comrade from a cop’s grip, if you would spray a surveillance cam or smash an OMNY, if you value your freedom and continuous ability to act against the state, why would you turn yourself in for a cool tweet? There are other options for making propaganda and encouraging people to take action that do not needlessly create more political prisoners. Make a flier out of your communique and paste it around. Add an inspiring graphic, song, or quote to your anonymous submission. Emphasize how your tactics are reproducible and urge others to do more than applaud as spectators. Be creative, be bold, be dangerous. But I’m begging you, don’t film yourself.

Submitted anonymously over email.

Two teens surrender after stealing subway car at the Briarwood-Van Wyck Blvd. station

Posted on by neversleep

Two teenagers turned themselves in at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows, where they were booked for stealing an unoccupied MTA subway car at the Briarwood-Van Wyck Blvd. station and taking it for a brief joy ride just after midnight on Thursday, Sept. 12.

The 17-year-old girl surrendered just after noon on Wednesday, and her accomplice, a 17-year-old boy, turned himself in the following morning. They were each charged with two counts of criminal mischief in the first degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree.

The two teens are accused of breaking into the vacant, out-of-service subway car and operating it for about 50 feet before they struck another unoccupied subway. No injuries were reported, but the train sustained around $1,500 worth of damage to the subway cars due to the collision, according to the criminal complaint. The two teens fled the scene before officers from the 107th Precinct and Transit District 20 arrived after responding to a 911 call about the incident.

They turned themselves in after their images were widely disseminated in local media. The young man boasted about his photo, telling a detective, “That’s me in the flyer,” according to the complaint.

At an unrelated press conference at the Corona Yards on Wednesday, MTA Interim President Demetrius Crichlow addressed how the subway snatchers were caught on camera.

“We’ve continually said that we have cameras. We’re aggressively installing cameras. We’re at approximately 70% of the fleet right now have cameras in and these cars specifically do so. We have great video which has been turned over to the police, and we’re confident that they will get the people, the perpetrators in this case.”

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