CV NEWS FEED // A Home Depot store in a New York City suburb reportedly hired guards equipped with bulletproof vests and a German Shepherd to ward off surging migrant crime.
“Two men wearing MSA Security caps and bulletproof vests with a German Shepherd in tow patrolled the Home Depot in New Rochelle on Tuesday,” the New York Post reported this weekend.
According to the Post, the store hired the security company “to protect shoppers from aggressive migrants and thieves flooding [the store’s] parking [lot].”
One guard further explained: “It’s not just because of [migrants], but because of a myriad of other things too, like people breaking into cars, that kind of stuff.”
The Post specified that the newly guarded New Rochelle Home Depot “lot was quiet and no migrants loitered there” when its reporters stopped by last week.
However, at another Home Depot store “seven miles away in Throggs Neck, The Bronx, at least 30 male migrants hovered at the doors,” The Post’s report added.
Per The Post, some of these migrants “aggressively confronted shoppers, trying to sell them phony Apple Airpods or soliciting tips for lifting items from shopping carts into cars — even when uninvited.”
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The story broke the same weekend a youth soccer game was canceled at nearby Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem after dozens of migrants stormed the field.
New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were called to the scene, yet even after this, the migrants still refused to leave.
That day, the “Manhattan Kickers soccer squad was originally scheduled to play FA Euro New York,” OutKick indicated.
When the young players tried to take the field, the “group of about 30 migrants refused to leave the premises, arguing that they didn’t have to, leading to not only the game being canceled, but now a safety concern for the teams,” OutKick continued.
Kickers coach Erik Johansson told reporters that some of the migrants responded with profanity when he politely asked them to leave the field.
On its website, Manhattan Kickers states that it “is a non-profit youth soccer school in New York City serving players ages 5 to 12.”
“We are a small community of families and coaches who love soccer and believe in the positive outcomes the game achieves for dedicated players,” the Kickers’ website describes.
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During a Monday morning broadcast, FOX News noted that the field at Thomas Jefferson Park “sits near two major illegal immigrant shelters with multiple reports of violence.”
To the west of the park sits 31 Central Park N, which houses up to 500 migrants. On February 28, one migrant residing there stabbed another in the stomach and the neck.
Across the Harlem River to the park’s immediate northeast is Randall’s Island. The island is reported to house up to 3,000 migrants and was the site of two stabbing incidents so far this year.
Shortly after news of the soccer game’s cancellation broke, youth football coach George Lanese told FOX that a similar incident happened to his team.
“We showed up early to set up the field,” Lanese shared. “And on the field there was a full [pick-up] soccer game going on.”
The coach stated that the president of the Harlem Jets – one of the youth teams scheduled to play – walked up to the migrant who appeared to be in charge of the pick-up game.
The team president showed the migrant his permit and explained that the youth organization were allotted the field at the time. The migrants refused to leave.
The ordeal “ensued to an argument for about 15 minutes,” before the migrants eventually walked off the field, Lanese recounted.
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The coach added that New York City uses a permit system to reserve teams for youth sports competitions as fields are sparse.
“When you’re going out there and all of the sudden your game gets canceled because people won’t get off the field that don’t have a permit, it’s heartbreaking,” he said. “The kids in New York City just went through all this with COVID.”
Lanese is the co-founder of About U Outreach NYC. The mission of the program is: “to level the playing field for NYC students by providing high quality academic resources, physical preparation, [and] high school [and] college admissions assistance.”
“We strongly believe that all children should have the same probability of reaching their full potential,” About U Outreach’s website adds.
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