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Kentucky's Mall St. Matthews Shuts Down After Brawls Involving Up to 2,000
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| Dec. 27, 2015
| Elisha Fieldstadt
Posted on 12/27/2015 10:10:18 AM PST by PROCON
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To: Bratch
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posted on
12/27/2015 10:57:20 AM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: Alberta's Child
Also note AC, that more and more retailers are opening in the exburbs (away from both the suburban and cities).
To: PROCON
No doubt it was joyous "teens" celebrating kwanzaa. You can't blame them, all they wanted was to pick out their gifts in the mall..................for free and those bastard store owners refused them. Racism plain and simple, and on Kwanzaa no less.
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posted on
12/27/2015 10:57:53 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Almost. Its the tried and true tactic of communists to get minorities and outcasts to do so much violence and disruption they can justify Martial Law and take control.
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posted on
12/27/2015 10:58:36 AM PST
by
Mechanicos
(Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
To: Alberta's Child
Your right, you won’t see a riot in a Walmart parking lot in December.
For those riots you need to go to Walmart on the Friday right after Thanksgiving. ;-)
To: r_barton
To: PROCON
“There are two types of malls in America; the ones white people go to, and the ones white people used to go to.”
Chris Rock
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:02:06 AM PST
by
henkster
(Never elect a president with unresolved mommy issues.)
To: PROCON
Hello, work? This is Homer Simpson.
I won't be coming in tomorrow.
Religious holiday.
The, uh, Feast of Maximum Occupancy.
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:06:19 AM PST
by
Trillian
To: bigdaddy45
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:06:56 AM PST
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: ChildOfThe60s
You’d be surprised how fast they can get smart with the right motivation...
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:07:50 AM PST
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: UnwashedPeasant
At the corner of MLK and BHO boulevards, no doubt.
Nope - Mall St. Matthews is about as suburban a mall as it gets. But apparently the mall's clientele has changed significantly since a big multiplex theater was added a few years back. A nasty fight there a couple months back made the press after video was posted on youtube, and there was a brawl at the Santa Claus area back in 2013 that happened right in front of a TV newscrew.
According to the Courier-Journal article (behind a paywall, so I won't link) the cops figure most of the youts came in on public transit or were dropped off by parents. Given that it was raining a lot and it was the day after Xmas, there were a LOT of youts in that mall.
Found out that relatives of my wife were there yesterday afternoon. They got bad vibes about the atmosphere - too crowded, too many kids, too much general rowdiness (especially given the UK vs UofL game) - and left before the fun-n-games started.
To: Mercat
Malls are obsolete, +1...
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:11:48 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(Amendment 25...)
To: Truth29
Well said. The fact that no arrests were made should be enough to warn any prospective shopper that the “teens” will be emboldened to do this again.
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:11:55 AM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Mercat
Malls are obsolete. We have one mall left in our area. I've been there twice in ten years. The other major mall is shutting down. And that's happening everywhere.
I think they should add apartments and convert them to assisted living facilities. Plenty of room for exercise, no need to go anywhere for shopping...Provide clinic, medicial personnel, limited access and security. Otherwise, they're just sitting there, vacant.
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:17:48 AM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: ROCKLOBSTER
I agree about malls, I don't go anymore. If I can't drive up fairly close to the front door, I don't shop there.
You have to park in a huge garage with thugs roaming around, walk miles to all the stores and if you buy stuff you have haul it all back to your car.
No thanks!
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:24:56 AM PST
by
Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
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To: Truth29
The dirty little secret is that this is exactly why the Republican leadership in Washington will continue to fund Planned Parenthood to the tune of billions of dollars.
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:49:47 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: ROCKLOBSTER
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:50:15 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: CedarDave
Rocking a passenger train car? What were they, super mutants?
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posted on
12/27/2015 11:52:30 AM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: PROCON
Here’s an angle that is receiving virtually no attention: the riot in Louisville occurred only two hours after a similar event unfolded at the Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News, VA. As in Louisville, the altercation at the Virginia mall began as isolated fights, then quickly spread. As many as 200 “yuts” were involved in the Patrick Henry incident. Some of the stores closed temporarily as shoppers sought refuge behind their security gates.
The police response in Newport News was identical to that in Kentucky: no arrests and no citations. In fact, it was mall security that ordered unaccompanied minors off the premises while the local cops largely observed.
I spoke with a friend of mine at church this morning who is a member of the Newport News PD. He told me the incident is almost certainly gang-related. When I asked him why the police didn’t respond more forcefully, he shook his head and said “you can probably guess the answer to that one.”
There was also an outbreak of violence at a mall near Baltimore last night, in roughly the same time frame as the incidents in Louisville and Newport News. Yet, the media seems remarkably unconcerned about a possible connection between these events (coordinated through social media) and a potential correlation to the BLM movement.
One thing is sure: the tepid response from cops (who hands have been tied by the politicians) will only invite more of this.
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