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March 12, 2015 Prachi Gupta

Four teenage girls beat the shit out of another girl in a Flatbush McDonald’s on Monday afternoon, as “dozens of kids and at least two adults” watched and cheered, reports the New York Daily News. All of it was caught on video and then posted to Facebook. The video, above, is graphic. What’s perhaps more […]

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November 12, 2014 Prachi Gupta

Another video has surfaced of people getting into a fight while riding New York’s public transit system– that’s the second this week, and it’s only Wednesday, folks. Just after a group of people were arrested for clawing at each other on the F train, a new video has surfaced of a bus driver roughing up […]

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November 11, 2014 Amy K. Nelson

I’m not sure, but I sort of feel like teenagers who either drop out of high school or college to start up their own companies (or become one of the most notorious whistleblowers this country has ever had) somehow always make it. That is pure bullshit from me, but at least there is some measure […]

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August 18, 2014 Marina Galperina

Andy Henriquez died in his solitary confinement cell from a torn aorta, in severe pain, while guards ignored his and other inmates’ cries for help, DNAinfo reports.  After a shocking report detailing institutionalized abuse, rights violations, a “culture of violence” and frequent medical emergencies experienced by young inmates at Rikers Island, other cases of systemic corruption are being brought to light, […]

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March 13, 2014 Marina Galperina

“The old sent us to die and we hated them.” The new documentary Matt Wolf examines a most transient of identities. Teenage is comprised of archival footage of adolescent groups through the decades — flappers, punks, etc. — and anonymous narrations of once-teenagers. “We didn’t always exist.”  How did the youth (aged roughly 16-24) became labeled and recognized […]

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