Attention all Wal-Mart shoppers. The announcement you heard telling black people to leave the store was done by a 16 year old boy who picked up the phone and activated the paging system.
He has now been arrested, but since he is a minor, his identity will not be released. You may now resume your shopping unless you want to remain offended or you work for the SEIU.
I’ll take my speculation one step further and guess that the 16 year old is black, and was irritated that store personnel were watching him to see if he was shoplifting and has a relative working for Wal*mart who told him how to activate the phone system.
What ever happened in that case at Columbia with the noose on the college professor’s door? have they finished reviewing the security camera footage yet?
Already, my instincts are showing they are probably correct.
http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2010/03/atlantic_county_teenager_charg_1.html
“Authorities also declined to give the prankster’s race. Dalton said that does not factor into the prosecution”
Of course not.
The story also indicates that he was accompanied by a friend…..
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/nyregion/21walmart.html
More details… there were 3 people standing by the phone. The kid who has been charged, a friend, and the friends’ MOTHER (want to bet she used to work for Wal*mart?))
The police caught them because they blabbed about what they did on a social networking site.
KYW finally reports that this is the Walmart in Turnersville – this WalMart is located next to the Atlantic City Expressway,which connects Philadelphia to Atlantic City
See if you can find a suspect in this news story:
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Wal-Mart-Paging-Victims-It-Was-Disgusting-88264047.html
If you go to youtube and search on Walmart Intercom, you’ll see this is apparently a common recreational activity of bored young boys with cell phones…. Just a few days ago, I wrote about the issue of the problem of Youtube encouraging people to do stupid things to get their 15 minutes of fame….
I’ll bet that somehow, someway Wal Mart gets sued in this deal. Or, hauled into federal sensitivity court or something similar…
The story has died.
There are no additional details or developments. One small bit of data is that the police found the social networking bragging based on an anonymous tip.
….the story has been killed. No “good”angle…especially if the kid’s race doesn’t help reinforce the message the media wants to portray about racist conservative big corporations.
If he isn’t black, second guess is Hispanic. When I was living / working in Chicago, I was introduced to the black vs Mexican racial hatred. Illegal Mexicans have taken a lot of jobs away from blacks.
The chief of police is in charge of the investigation is Hispanic. The Kid’s race is not relevant.