Posted on 07/01/2015 10:19:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
JUNE 30--Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they could cause,” police allege.
During the 1:45 AM ransacking of the Walmart in Macon, rioters pulled a patron from an electric wheelchair and dragged him to the floor, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office report.
As seen below, a Walmart surveillance camera recorded the vandals racing through store aisles.
Investigators say that a “crowd of 40-50 individuals consisting of black males and females” were led into the store by Kharron Green, 17, who can be seen on surveillance video “presenting gang signs in the air with his hands.”
For about a minute, Green & Co. ran through store aisles “destroying merchandise and vandalizing the property,” cops reported. Upon arriving at the trashed Walmart, a deputy noted that one aisle was “destroyed and coated with broken merchandise” and that the “length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.”
Green, pictured above, was arrested at the scene. A Walmart employee interviewed by cops said that he spoke with Green in the store’s parking lot and that the teen “stated that this was a planned event, and that they had planned to see how much damage they could cause.”
A Walmart manager estimated the value of damaged merchandise at $2000.
While Green refused to identify any of his fellow marauders, he told cops that the group “had all come from a party.” Charged with criminal street gang activity, inciting to riot, and criminal damage to property, Green is locked up in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. (2 pages)
Kharron Green, 17, who can be seen on surveillance video “presenting gang signs in the air with his hands.”
so which Ivy League engineering school was this homeboy bound for?
Walmart’s cameras suck.
Trashing Walmart? What's his FR nick? Thanks Red Badger.
“40 to 50 animals and they only manage to do $2000 worth of damage?”
It’s Walmart. I am surprised it is that much.
Can’t watch it. Savages annoy me.
If he is shot by a white cop, he will be immortalized.
If he can be charged with inciting a riot, why can’t Sharpton?!?!
Right, the cops are lying in an attempt to make these innocent black teens look bad!
Perfect!
“The disrespect he gets from his own community would serve as a disincentive for him and his friends in the future. “
I wish that were true. If this young man had a community which valued civic responsibility and personal achievement none of this would have happened.
Put this kid in the stocks and within an hour he would be a hero with his own reality show, and whoever had put him there would be out of a job.
Sharpton has ‘connections’..................
Hahvahd, of course!.............
Were stocks commonly used around America in the late 1700’s?
If so, then they would not be considered ‘Cruel & Unusual’...................
Black Friday causes more damage to Walmart than these clowns did.
Oops, was that racist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks
From Wiki:
Modern Usage in the Criminal Justice System
On August 5, 1989, the Dermott, Arkansas (U.S.A.) City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting children from breaking curfew, by providing for a sentence of 30 days in jail with 2 days in an open-air public stockade for their parents.[12] The ordinance was modified two weeks later to delete the reference to the stockade, as the term was undefined, the town did not have a stockade, and no funds were allocated to build one.[13]
Whether punishment by placement in the stocks may be allowed under the American criminal justice system, is an unanswered question. Normally, criminal punishment is through incarceration in jails and prisons, and probation which may include community service. However, alternative sentences imposed by trial courts have been upheld on appeal. For instance, in United States vs. Gementera, the defendant was convicted of mail theft and sentenced, among other measures, to stand in front of a post office for eight hours wearing a sandwich board that read: “I stole mail. This is my punishment.” On appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the United States affirmed the sentence, finding that the sentence was not imposed solely for the purpose of humiliation, but also served the criminal justice system’s goals of deterrence and rehabilitation.[14] The Ninth Circuit further found that the alternative sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, noting that the sentence was “within the limits of civilized standards,” and noting that the sentence did not include a lengthy prison sentence, which could have been imposed.[15]
Using the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning in Gementera, it would appear that punishment in the stocks may be imposed in America in certain circumstances, particularly since the United States Supreme Court has held that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment must be determined by reference to punishments uncommon at the time of the Bill of Rights.[16] Given the long history of usage of the stocks in Colonial times, it cannot be said that the stocks would have been considered ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ in Colonial times. Given this fact, circumstances in which the punishment may be lawfully imposed in the United States currently would certainly include sentences involving a significantly lesser time period for incarceration when measured against the time period specified in the statute (as noted by the Ninth Circuit in Gementera), and times when the offender elects the stocks in lieu of a different punishment, which would waive any error on appeal. Regardless of whether the offender agrees, however, sentencing in the stocks may be available without violating Federal law. State and local law, however, must be separately analyzed to determine whether the stocks as a punishment may be available. The mainstream media has recently directed attention towards whether using the stocks violates the United States Constitution, and concludes that such usage may be allowed under precedent which notes that public shaming punishments have been permitted in other cases.[17]
In South America, on March 19, 2012, married thirty-four-year-old Alfredo Blanco Basilio and her eighteen-year-old lover Luis Martinez were placed in stocks by the Sampues tribe in the South American nation of Colombia due to Basilio’s adultery. Basilio spent 72 hours barefoot in the stocks for her offense.[18]
I know. They’re so useless they are not even good at breaking things.
Don Reid, is that you?
The cop claims to have viewed them pull a man from an electric cart and drag him to the floor. Watch the video closely. The cart is standing empty behind the display with the bunting on it. One of the little darlings hops aboard so he can loot and vandalize in comfort and ease. His brilliant plan is thwarted when the mob of apes scatters when the deputies arrive.
Macon is the Baltimore of Georgia. If you have never been there don’t go.
GA Freeper ping; a follow up on the earlier report.
Put the parents in jail overnight.....then we’ll see how often this happens in the future.
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