are u naive?? this is how things are in american….same shit different day

WTF is the mayor supposed to do about the murder rate? That is what cops are for.

I agree!!! I don’t believe the whole burden should be bared by 1 man, but he should have had his priorities in CHECK!!! I would expect a 22 year old man to wait in line, but if it were SO importaint for him to have the phone RIGHT A WAY, he should have paid some teenager to wait in line for him? I would have and I don’t even have doe like he does lol!!!

It’s summertime for GOD’s sake, ALL the kids are out of school lookin’ for some extra doe, while also like my man 50 said “the summertime is a KILLING season, ALL OVER AMERICA!!! It’s that way out here in L.A. and I assume everywhere else.

But for the LIFE OF ME, I don’t understand why the Nations CAPITAL of all places, has had the highest crime, particularly MURDER rate, for most of the 27 years I have been alive? That area (D.C., VA and MD) also has a VERY alarming rate of Heroine sales and addiction ie that show The Corner!!! It (Heroine) took my father’s life out there in D.C. when I was only 6 and NOTHING has changed for the better!! Only gotten WORSE in my lifetime!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!! WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER!!!

You can’t be serious, thats what the cops are for? So the Mayor plays no role in controlling crime?

yo the mayor needs his iphone to rid the city of voilence haha.

instead of him wasting time juggling all of his appliances, he will save time by having them all in one.
in turn making more time for him to do his mayor shit lol.

Why should he care if we as black people are pumping murder music talking about killing all day, him taking a day off won’t hurt..

Yup i said hip hop is influencing and causing the killing or young black males…..

Furthermore, he probably used a sick day or a personal day..

@ gerold u must me be white or oprah so i wont comment on ur dumbass….

Yes the mayor plays a very important role in controlling crime but he isnt the only one that should be held accountable. Its not like its illegal what he did…the attention that this is getting is crazy to me…come on, all this drama over waiting in a long azz line… itz not like thoze 15 hours would have changed anything. You cant stop a man from wanting to kill another man…no matter what laws you set in motion or how much time you put in, you can never stop someone from killing someone else…. besides he prolly was enjoying a little leisure time to get away from the bullshit… the crime rate cant all be blamed on one man.

#6 kinda has a point, to a certain degree…KEEP IT REAL, but its not all to be blamed on hip-hop, hell no. The bullshit that goes on in the streets is neither caused by hip-hop or hip-hops fault its the other way around…REAL hip hop is a product of what goes on in the streets…what goes on in the streets is not a product of hip-hop. However, in some cases hip-hop is the culprit, for example the kids that cant seperate fact from fiction or right from wrong might listen to hip hop, take it the wrong way, and copy what they hear and see in hip hop, thus rising the crime rate.

is it the mayors fault: he can only do so much, what about self control & each individual handlin themselves in a grown up manner. damn tv & movie companies 4 teachin the youth. damn the parents 4 not doin their jobs. 200 is a crazy number.

STOP THE MADNESS? Give me a fucking break. You’re blowing this way out of porportion. He spent one friday waiting in line for an iphone, big deal. You expect him to be in the office 24/7? Even Mayors are entitled to some free time.

cosigns #6 Niggas in d east kill more niggas in thier music. The truth is violent crime as a home in hip hop and whethere you like it or not hip hop fuels crime and glorifys it. Its only when becomes O.C. then people be like we need to come down.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT MAYOR JOHN STREET ISNT SHIT AND HE’S BEEN OUR MAYOR FOR MADD LONG AND I AM DFEINITELY NOT PLEASED WITH HOW HE IS HANDLING OUR MURDER RATE IN PHILLY. HE JUST SEEMS LIKE HE DOESNT HAVE A PLAN. AND IM TIRED OF THE YOUNG BULS GETTIN AHOLD OF THESE GUNS AND SHOOTIN PEOPLE OVER DUMB SHIT. STREET WILL NOT BE MAYOR FOR LONG THO.

I def agree with #13…also as a resident of Philly, he hasn’t been the best. Hopefully, Nutter can bring some needed change. But it ain’t just the Mayor, its everybody’s responsibility to help deal with the crime up here. 6 people were murder on the first day of summer, it doesn’t make sense. Its not even the middle of summer and I know that its about to be out of control up here. John Street’s time is up so I could care less if he’s buying an iPhone.

That mayor is a scumbag he don’t care about other cat’s he wanted an Iphone thats ugly he shuda got stomped out for it . hip hop is like 20 percent to blame then poverty and peoples parents not giving a fuck , come on most rappers only care about themselves they wanan get out the hood thats why they rap

At the same time how much can one man do at one given time. that like going to Bush while he’s on vacation and saying. How can you chil at your vacation home when there are millions of homeless people.

I’m sure the mayor is concerned with the murder rate but damn unless you expect dude to throw on a cape, cowl and bat symbol on his chest and deal with the murderers with vigilante justice then what can he do that he may not already be doing?

Holy Cow!
Some of these politicians really makes you upset. Him waiting in the line was bad, but he could have given a better answear to the question he was given.

Let’s make changes, work beatch!
STOP THE MADNESS!

he didnt have a assistant or somebody to wait in the line for him? i gotta admit, this isnt really a good look, but at the same time, dont nobody wanna be at work all the time. he mighta did this to get away from work, cuz why wouldnt he just tell somebody to stand in the line for him? he got security guards and secret service and all that shit ya know. please believe i woulda told some muthafucka who worked for the city to stand in line and get the phone or i was gonna fire his ass. what type of dumb ass mayor is he

“im bout to take over the city of philly like john street”

never knew what beans was talkin bout until just now.

Damn! if philly really that bad dis dude need to get tha boot. niggas need to get a petition started to get him outta office. plus niggas is already having problems with dat phone. shit aint even worth it.

Michael Kay (Yankee announcer) told an interesting story yesterday/today that fits to this situation:

“Pat Neshek (a Minnesota Twins pitcher) is an avid hockey fan and as recently as a year ago, he was waiting outside of a hotel for the hockey players to come out so that he can get their autographs.

“The NHL heard the story yesterday and had a big bag of hockey memorabilia delivered to him the next day.”

So for ya’ll that don’t understand, it’s not how Street chose to spend his time that’s a problem. It’s his questionable decision making.

first of all let me say that I live in Philly and it’s a damn shame that John F. Street was caught standing in line for that damn I phone, abd just for the record as of tonight I murder rate is now an astonishing 214 murders on the city’s hands. So much for brotherly love on his behalf, and to think we voted for him not once but twice, and his brother had a nerve to think he was going to get elected into office. And every election his son always runs for city council and time after time they fail us as a city of 1.5 million, with most of them living on a poverty level and that bastard has anerve to say that he’s doing his job. Let the world be the judge of that, because that’s what it’s come to at this point, thanks to all that bad publicity from the world news.
Thanks John F. Street