Ahhhh... good old “Trumbull Shopping Park”.
I would guarantee that the “Amish” that caused this disturbance were African-Americans from Bridgeport.
“Trumbull Shopping Park” used to be a nice suburban mall and all of the African-American crowd would go to the downtown mall called “Lafayette Park”.
Not any more.
The bus from Bridgeport pulls right up in the front. The Bridgeport city line is just outside of the mall entrance.
Westfield Trumbull Shopping Park is now over-run with African-American ghetto trash and is an unsafe place to shop as this episode underlines. The parking lot is particularly unsafe.
This is the kinda stuff that destroyed Randall Park Mall in the Cleveland area. Gangs and shoplifting. It’s totally deserted and scheduled for demolition.
Indeed.
They just opened a new Target there too.
It is frequented by the Bridgeport crowd.
Same thing happened to one of my two childhood malls, the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, NY, as the trash from Jamaica (the neighborhood, not the country) started showing up. First it was unsafe to go at night, then folks were getting robbed in the parking lot. By 1990, you were as likely to see a martian there as a paleface. Damn same, as I used to love the pizzeria and ice cream parlor there.