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.”
I checked 3 articles and YouTube...there is NO surveillance video online - nor even one still photo of this mob scene. Can anyone find it? If not, I can probably guess why.
You would think someone with a cellphone would have one..............
I don’t pretend to know much about the law, but are you sure of that? Would his lawyer not object to his being tried as an adult if we was technically not an adult at the time of the crime?
Probably don’t want to prejudice the jury pool before trial?
Figgers.
Truer words were never written. But it's equally true that all those who spurn His love and die without repenting exclude themselves from His grace and face eternity in a very inhospitable place the gentle Jesus Himself called hell.
Therefore, as for the "utes" who die (or more likely killed) young and unrepentant, I'm sorry to say that their eternal abode won't be in God's heaven. And that's according to God's Word, not merely my opinion.
I don't say any of this out of hate or racism. As a born again child of God I don't hate anyone except the great deceiver Satan and his supernatural minions. Nor do I wish hell for anyone of any race, ethnicity, or religion, Christ died for sinners, not perfect human beings.(Although I have to admit that after watching the evening news I sometimes hope that all ISIS torturers and murderers suffer a rather lengthy period of excruciating physical pain just before they accept Christ. Is that a sin?)
Drudge doesn’t count. You won’t see it on CNN or Yahoo’s home page.
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I won’t see it on CNN or Yahoo’s home page because I never go there.
If the Macon police have it, you should be able to get it using a GA open records request. Send an email to the city clerk requesting it. Be specific as to date and location.
I can’t stop laughing at this post.
Lemme guess...opponents of civilization reaping its benefits while tearing it down.
I didn't see it listed in the Top Ten...............
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