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Report: Macon Wal-Mart mob wanted to see how much damage it could do
www.macon.com ^ | June 29, 2015 | By JOE KOVAC JR.

Posted on 06/30/2015 6:10:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

Surveillance video of a wee-hours ruckus at a Macon Wal-Mart on Sunday shows a teenager race inside flashing gang signs ahead of a mob of four dozen or so people who burst in and smashed merchandise.

The commotion, which caused an estimated $2,000 in damage, appears to have been planned.

Some in the crowd also snatched a man, apparently a shopper at the Zebulon Road store, from a motorized shopping cart and dragged him to the floor, Bibb County sheriff’s officials said Monday.

The vandals, said to number between 40 and 50, sprinted down the store’s main aisle about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, “destroying merchandise displays and items,” a sheriff’s deputy’s report of the incident noted.

Floors in parts of the store were “coated with broken merchandise,” the report added. “The length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.”

When sheriff’s deputies got there, the crowd “began to flee into many different vehicles and leave the scene,” the report said.

The store, next to Lowe’s, is just east of Interstate 475 in one of the area’s most frequented shopping districts.

The teenager seen leading the rushing horde of young men and women told a Wal-Mart employee “that this was a planned event ... to see how much damage they could cause,” the sheriff’s report said.

The teen, identified as 17-year-old Kharron Nathan Green, of Ashton Drive in northwest Bibb County, was arrested when he returned to the store to retrieve his cellphone.

Green was jailed and later released on bond after being charged with inciting a riot and second-degree damage to property.

Green, according to the sheriff’s report, first told cops that “he did not know anything about what had happened in the store and that he did not know anyone involved.”

But when his mother and father arrived and watched the surveillance footage with sheriff’s deputies, the report said “Green admitted to his parents that the male in the video was indeed him.”

He refused to name others in the crowd, but according to the report said they had all come from a party on the city’s south side.

“Hopefully we can identify the others,” Sheriff David Davis said Monday. “Hopefully it’s not a pattern of behavior.”

Davis wondered about the parental supervision of the young people involved.

“Due to the lateness of the hour,” he said, “I don’t know that they were going to be going to church the next morning.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: diversity; flashmob; georgia; givespacetodestroy; handicapped; macon; mob; obamalegacy; spacetodestroy; vandalism; walmart; watchman
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To: needmorePaine

just young scholars letting off a little steam.


81 posted on 06/30/2015 8:37:01 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Red Badger

Yet we have all been made in God’s image, and we know that Jesus died for the sake of all humanity, and as it says in Revelation, which my tagline refers to, there will be people in Heaven from every nation.

And can’t we easily find so many examples of people of African descent exhibiting truly Christian and/or moral behavior (meaning from the conscience God has given all people), while we can so easily find many examples of people of other ancestries exhibiting unchristian and immoral behavior? We can find endless examples of both.

So then why should it be presumed from incidents like this one that evil behavior is any more in the nature of people of African descent than it is any other people? Humans are evil, as we all witness all around us every day, and that evil will tend to take the form of people’s circumstances. I personally grew up in almost all-white, middle-class and upper-middle class communities, and among the teens and the adults I saw so much evil of many different forms that it could be expected from that alone that young people of poor backgrounds, and in the case of African-American young people, whose families for centuries faced a great deal of systematic harassment, rejection, and sabotage, would also do evil, although of somewhat different sorts than that done by people in different circumstances.


82 posted on 06/30/2015 8:41:27 AM PDT by Faith Presses On ("After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations...")
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To: TexasCajun

Is that his mugshot? Looks really repentant.


83 posted on 06/30/2015 8:42:33 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: nonliberal
It just says “vandals.” Draw your own conclusions.

But what about the visigoths?

84 posted on 06/30/2015 8:43:21 AM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: Red Badger

Nathan Williams · Top Commenter

Judging by the comments, I am guessing this story has hit the drudge report? Admittedly there is a higher crime problem with black Americans. But most Walmarts were not ransacked last night, most businesses were not robbed last night. Almost everyone managed NOT to be murdered. Yet typical racist and biggots flock to black crime stories like flies on cattle dung. Some of you almost seem orgasmic to fault the many for the crimes of a few. Although many of you profess to know God, few of you seem to follow his example and judge a man on his own merit’s. By your own playbook, type child sex offender into Google news search. The vast majority are white middle aged men. We all know most mass muders have been perpetrated by white male’s, including the recent church massacre. Would be fair to the call all white male’s pedophiles, perverts and mass killer’s? I think not. I think the Lord’s way of judging every person for their own action is the best and most correct course. Apparently some of you think you know better than our creator.


From the comments section at the site. A pretty even response? Many of us are reacting to the media’s manipulation of the events both past and present?

I will note that the commenter stopped short from saying this is wrong and we need to change it.................

Regarding the pedophiles, there are few trying to justify their actions. Is that the difference?


85 posted on 06/30/2015 8:44:00 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: headstamp 2

Didn’t think about security cams, not the sharpest knife in the drawer:...


86 posted on 06/30/2015 8:44:09 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Red Badger

Macon, GA Demographics

White alone, percent, 2010 28.6% (Georgia 59.7%)

Black or African American alone, percent, 2010 67.9% (Georgia 30.5%)


87 posted on 06/30/2015 8:44:54 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Red Badger

Anyone caught doing this should be under court order to hand in their cellphone, and permanently banned from the Obamaphone giveaway for life. (That’s just a temporary measure until Obamaphones can themselves be put to sleep.)


88 posted on 06/30/2015 8:47:56 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: TheOldLady

He won’t be so haughty after he’s done a dime in prison.

(((
But, as he’s 17, will they claim he is just a child?


89 posted on 06/30/2015 8:51:05 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: TheOldLady

He won’t be so haughty after he’s done a dime in prison.

(((
But, as he’s 17, will they claim he is just a child?


90 posted on 06/30/2015 8:51:06 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: needmorePaine
I guess the Vandal's made it from Constantinople (not Istambul/TMBG)

The remaining Vandals were then shipped back to Constantinople to be absorbed into the imperial army. As a distinct ethnic unit they disappeared after the Vandalic War

91 posted on 06/30/2015 8:51:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Bigg Red
Is that his mugshot? Looks really repentant.

He'd look a lot more repentant with a 9mm hole in the center of his forehead.

92 posted on 06/30/2015 8:54:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Faith Presses On

There are good people of all nations and ethnicity...................


93 posted on 06/30/2015 9:05:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Isaiah 53 New International Version (NIV)

1
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

7
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8
By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.


94 posted on 06/30/2015 9:11:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Bigg Red

Depends on how close he is to being 18. Ringleaders always get the blame and pay the price.
If they send him to Juvenile Hall to “await trial,” and he should happen to have a birthday
there, then he can be tried as an adult, which at 18, we are assumed to be adults and we are
responsible for our actions.


95 posted on 06/30/2015 9:37:27 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8 - Look it up. I miss the Gipper. Wish we still had someone like him.)
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To: MHGinTN

“Snatched.” What a benign word the writer uses for assaulted.

Hey Joe, who’s your editor? JOE KOVAC JR.
jkovac@macon.com


96 posted on 06/30/2015 10:27:53 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Hey! That reminds me of a song.")
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To: TexasCajun

And most of the country doesn’t think this type of destructive behavior will come to their neck of the woods.

So, they roll over and go back to sleep.

When it happens, they’ll scream that nobody warned them it could happen.

There are agitators who want these problems for America.


97 posted on 06/30/2015 11:37:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Bigg Red

Vanity Fair needs this punk on a “Call Me Kharron” issue cover!!


98 posted on 06/30/2015 11:48:57 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess...oh, never mind.


99 posted on 06/30/2015 12:08:24 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Red Badger
Some in the crowd also snatched a man, apparently a shopper at the Zebulon Road store, from a motorized shopping cart and dragged him to the floor . . . The teenager . . . told a Wal-Mart employee “that this was a planned event ... to see how much damage they could cause,”

Conspiracy to commit assault and riot should put these thugs in prison for at least ten years each. They'll still be dangerous when they get out, but at least their neighbors will be safer for a decade.

100 posted on 06/30/2015 12:10:22 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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