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Macon Walmart overrun, sacked by 50 teenagers -- more civilized than the comments tho

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PantherLotus

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http://www.macon.com/2015/06/29/3821075_report-macon-wal-mart-mob-wanted.html?rh=1

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.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2015/06/29/3821075_report-macon-wal-mart-mob-wanted.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

^Here's the news.

vBut here's the real story:
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Hey, if I had to live in the waking hellscape that is Macon, GA, I'd probably lose my mind and loot a store, too.
 
It actually sickens me that people like that have no problem posting such racist filth with their name and photo right next to it. No shame whatsoever.
 
Some awful people said mean things on the internet.

Some other awful people trashed a store and assaulted and man on a handicap scooter.


And yet according to OP, I am supposed to be more angry about the first group?
 
The funniest part is on face book it does not take a detective to find out who you are. I don't think like that anyways but if I did I don't think I would make comments that link to my real name, location, friends and family.

But keep exposing yourselves asshats, it's getting easier and easier to figure out exactly who is not worth your time or respect these days.
 
Why do racists think the NYPD commissioner is on their side? Bratton has always talked about community outreach and engagement to poor and minorities (which in NYC are often one in the same).

Also: who said people are rude on the internets because of anonymity. These people are saying these things with their real names and pictures on a public forum. Might as well be Bruce Willis in the beginning of Die Hard 3.
 
What the hell? News to me.

I thought thug meant unruly behavior. Disregard/disrepect for authority and others.
Technically yes. But thanks to certain folks and media using it as "code" for black, a way to slur without using known slurs, it's just easier not to use it than argue semantics.
 
Some awful people said mean things on the internet.

Some other awful people trashed a store and assaulted and man on a handicap scooter.


And yet according to OP, I am supposed to be more angry about the first group?

Um ... yes?

Option 1: 50 kids live such a shitty existence this type of expression seems like a reasonable option in the minds of these teenagers (edited for clarity)

vs.

Option 2: White racists from all over the country jump on the news, calling them animals, advocating for segregation and slavery, while not even having the shame to hide behind anon comments.

I mean, if you're more worried about Walmart taking $2K in damage than the systemic racism and socio-economic realities that led to it, I guess that says more about you than you probably intend. Good luck with that!
 
How in the world did 40 to 50 people only manage to do $2000 worth of damage? Did they skip the electronics department?

Historical Vandals would be less than impressed.

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Why do racists think the NYPD commissioner is on their side? Bratton has always talked about community outreach and engagement to poor and minorities (which in NYC are often one in the same).

The same mentality that says moving to Canada is the solution to avoiding legal same sex marriage.
 
Make the thread about the news story. People really need to start ignoring random youtube/facebook morons. It's NOT the real news story here.

If you want to have a discussion about racist comments on news stories make a separate thread.
 
These asshole kids probably have asshole parents, many of these kids will have their own kids..who will probably be assholes too when they grow up. Soon there will be so many assholes running around on this planet that we might collapse in our own black hole of assholeness.
 
Who gives a shit what assholes post on Facebook.

Jesus could come back tomorrow and some assholes would post shit about it on Facebook.
 
It's just a flash mob, kids do this stuff all over the world.

Part of the cause of the rampant casual racism is the steady diet of Fox News and conservative entertainment, it encourages the hateful side of people's nature so they view the world around them through the lens of right wing fear and racism.
 
Um ... yes?

50 kids live such a shitty existence this type of expression seems like a reasonable option

vs.

White racists from all over the country jump on the news, calling them animals, advocating for segregation and slavery, while not even having the shame to hide behind anon comments.

I mean, if you're more worried about Walmart taking $2K in damage than the systemic racism and socio-economic realities that led to it, I guess that says more about you than you probably intend. Good luck with that!

Having grown up in a small rural town, there are many times I wanted like hell to run through a department store full of stuff I couldn't afford and just bust shit.

Of course, I didn't... mainly because you'd never get 50 teens together for anything but underaged drinking and football games.
 
But the Wall Street Journal recently told me that "Today the system and philosophy of institutionalized racism identified by Dr. King no longer exists."
 
Um ... yes?

50 kids live such a shitty existence this type of expression seems like a reasonable option

vs.

White racists from all over the country jump on the news, calling them animals, advocating for segregation and slavery, while not even having the shame to hide behind anon comments.

I mean, if you're more worried about Walmart taking $2K in damage than the systemic racism and socio-economic realities that led to it, I guess that says more about you than you probably intend. Good luck with that!

Did you just call ransacking a walmart reasonable?
 
Why are we putting so much credence into random Facebook comments?
Because it tells much about the problem the US is facing currently which got pushed a bit into the background in the aftermath of 9/11 but are on display now in strong fashion. The US is a deeply split country with an awefully powerfull racist right wing.

I disagree. I don't have any problem with the person who called this group of teenagers "thugs." That's exactly what they acted like here. Thugs.
That is nothing you can disagree with.
 
Why do these people jump on the comments section of what some black people did and make it into all black people are bad, instead of what the story is about.

And I have people tell me racism is a figment of blacks imagination
 
How in the world did 40 to 50 people only manage to do $2000 worth of damage? Did they skip the electronics department?

The article does say they went down the main aisle of the store(whatever that means, I guess maybe the area by the checkout?) and the electronics sections of Walmarts are usually at the back of the store, so maybe they didn't permeate that far into the store?
 
How in the world did 40 to 50 people only manage to do $2000 worth of damage? Did they skip the electronics department?

Historical Vandals would be less than impressed.

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I'm presuming they dashed in and out, and weren't actually thorough about going through everything.

If your options were minimum wage service industry work or crime, you would be stupid not to choose crime.

I'm always amazed so many people think that a life of crime is actually very easy.
 
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