After having an unpleasant experience with Oakland, California’s crime wave, two parents from Florida had to make the painful choice to take their son out of a college in the Bay Area and start putting their broken hopes for his new life away from home back together.
On “Fox & Friends First,” they talked about how scared they were when they found broken windows in their rental car while they were helping their son move into his apartment. Some expensive things had been stolen, and they were upset to learn that no one, not even the cops, could help.
Nerissa Murray Watson, the mother of Rhomel Crossman, who wants to go to Lincoln University, said, “When we called the police, they said they can’t come now and we have to go to the station.”
“Sorry, we don’t know where the station is,” I told them. Someone just stole from us. We have no idea where it is. We’re scared. Could you come help us? “They said no, they can’t come,” she said.
The family says they called the cops three times but got no help. Watson said that things didn’t get better when they got to the stop because they had to wait outside for about 15 minutes before they could go inside.
Before the strange event, Crossman, who just finished from high school in Florida, had planned to go to Lincoln University in downtown Oakland on a football scholarship.
“I was actually excited because I was beginning a new part of my life and I love football,” Crossman told Carley Shimkus on Thursday on Fox News.
Five bags were stolen when thieves broke into the car. The thieves also have a bag with $3,000 in it, as well as Crossman’s high school diploma, IDs, social security cards, and even a sleep apnea machine, according to The New York Post.
Watson said that the whole thing made her not want to send her son to college in the area, so she has chosen to keep him in Florida.
In response to what happened, Lincoln University President Dr. Mikhail Brodsky gave a long comment to Fox News: “The news about a student’s broken-down car is unpleasant but not surprising.” These kinds of things happen in the U.S., in Oakland, in San Francisco, and in the Bay Area. “It’s not the worst thing; there are much worse things,” part of the message said.
“Earlier, Lincoln Vice President Doctor Guerrera sent our letter of support to the parents of the students… Lincoln University is being hurt by this.” Still, we love Oakland. It’s a lovely place with lots of interesting history. I feel bad for the kid. He can choose Florida, but Oakland and Lincoln University have a lot of great options for him that he won’t find in Florida. It went on, “I hope that these losses are the worst things that will happen to him in the future.”
