New York Police are in search of a gang of bonnet sporting girls whom they declare are chargeable for not less than 2 separate violent assaults in Harlem, MTO Information has discovered.
Social media has named the violent girls the “bonnet gang” as a result of all of them look like sporting bonnets on their heads – in the course of the assaults.
One of many “bonnet gang” assaults, was captured on video. Look:
Within the video, the bonnet gang ran down on a 61 12 months previous disabled lady. As you possibly can see the video, the older sufferer was overwhelmed and robbed in broad daylight in a residential neighborhood in Harlem.
The “bonnet gang” robbers used a cooking pot to beat the sufferer earlier than taking $22, the sufferer’s pockets, and the sufferer’s handicapped walker.
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Sporting bonnets in public has turn out to be a social situation in Black Twitter.
It began when comic Mo’Nique Hicks despatched out a PSA by way of her Instagram on Might 29: She wished “younger Queens” (learn: Black girls and femmes) to assume twice earlier than deciding to put on sleep and loungewear in public.
Mo’Nique is a revered comic identified for her function within the early 2000s sitcom The Parkers in addition to tons of comedy specials and movies. Within the Instagram video she posted, Mo’Nique remembers a latest journey to the Atlanta airport the place she noticed a bunch of Black girls sporting bonnets and head scarves as they waited to board their airplane.
The sight of the ladies, “too many to faucet,” as she says, was so offensive to her, she determined to touch upon it.
Mo’Nique’s feedback sparks a debate on Black Twitter on whether or not Black girls ought to – or shouldn’t – put on a bonnet in public.
