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.”
Those damn Koreans, AGAIN? Amish? Jews?
He was just getting ready to turn his life around... wanted to be a doctor after getting off probation for other crimes...
If they were white it would be mentioned in the first paragraph and there would have been pictures...
Facts:
A mob of 40-50 vandals went on an organized rampage and only did $2,000 worth of damage.
Conclusions:
1) This must have occurred in a Wal-Mart. My dog could do $2,000 worth of damage in a Dollar Store.
2) You’re truly at the bottom rung when people can mock your pathetic looting and vandalism skills.
The pharmacist at my Walmart told me about the change in shopper profile as related to time of day.
But it is rather intuitive.
He won’t be so haughty after he’s done a dime in prison.
That is totally cool, Deo.
Is it the only one? Unique is grand!
just young scholars letting off a little steam.
Not-so-smart-bombs
Is that a typo?
40-50 feral yutes on a spree of intentional destruction in a Walmart and they can only do $2,000 in damage?
I bet I could do at least ten times that damage all by myself before they would be able to stop me, and I'm a slow, old guy.
Sorry, I didn’t read the back page of comments before I typed mine. Didn’t mean to copy / GMTA.
“Rocket Scientist.’
That’s racist and insulting to this young mans intelligence.
He be warp drive scientist.
He be havin dat starship design on his obamaphone why he can’t be leavin it.
Ahhh... I love it!
Probably can’t take it to the highways, though.
The first underpass you come to, and it’s curtains.
It’s definitely taller than a semi tractor-trailer.
They say this like it's a bad thing!
And that only if you consider making license plates productive.
I doubt this will make the national news
It is on Drudge upper left corner. . .with link to the “Telegraph’s” story. It’s not only national but international. We are the laughing stock of the world. The probable reason for immigrants to come here these days is a handout not a handup.
TEENS STORM WAL-MART IN WILD RAMPAGE OF DESTRUCTION...
Drudge doesn’t count. You won’t see it on CNN or Yahoo’s home page.
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