Fights break out at malls across United States
Source: CNN.com
(CNN)Disturbances that included gunfire, massive brawls and food-court fights played out at more than a dozen malls across the country in what proved to be a chaotic day after Christmas.
The disturbances, some of which were captured on social media, prevented some shoppers from clearing off clearance racks and returning Christmas gifts as they intended.
The mall incidents, which ranged from minor melees to mass evacuations, occurred nationwide from Colorado to Tennessee, Texas to New Jersey. Here's what happened at six of those malls.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/mall-disturbances-after-christmas/
Although not mentioned in the article, Destiny USA - the mall in Syracuse NY, also had a huge fight broken up: http://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/fight-at-destiny-usa-prompts-large-police-response/631922716
Was something posted on social media that caused this?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and the people wept.
Abouttime
(675 posts)Entitled tRump voters now have the right to become violent if they somehow feel slighted in the least way.
I drive a 2011 Prius, I have Obama 2012, Bernie and Hillary stickers and several others such as 'coexist' on my bumper. I get harassed every day by what I assume are tRump voters in their jacked-up smoke belching diesel pickups. I can feel their hatred and sense of violence and rage directed at me and progressives in general. I fear there is a civil war brewing. Never in my life did I feel like I needed a gun to protect myself but now I'm actually considering getting a concealed carry permit.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)loosely organized on social media according to BBC 4 so I wouldn't call them regular shoppers.
At least 8 malls were involved.
Abouttime
(675 posts)Anger directed at tRump and his supporters, you can't campaign on hate and not create more hate directed right back at you.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Although I'm assuming it's going to get worse.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)"sigh"
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)(African American) running through malls?
Igel
(35,197 posts)Trump-supporting African-American underage voters.
The video didn't show entirely AA populations, but it was far from the Aryan-looking population assumed in some posts.
But hey, whatever's necessary to blame the usual suspects and make those believed innocent out to be truly innocent.
We good, they bad; we moral, they immoral; we smart, they stupid; we like facts and honesty, they like lies and falsehood. And anybody who says otherwise is one of them, and to be ignored.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)since he was "elected," there have been an enormous number of violent incidents throughout the country.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/this-post-election-violence-is-not-normal-and-it-is-un-american/
It could be I misunderstood the context of the particular type of violence described in the post and mistakenly associated it with his post-"election" violence.
I was at work when I saw the post and neglected to read through the article. (That'll teach me!)
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)at one time or another.
I try not to, because I usually make a fool of myself.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)it was a slow-ish day and I needed my fix!!
Lesson learned
niyad
(112,434 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,675 posts)where everyone wants to be a rock/movie/cultural star
has bred a nation of narcissists who cannot distinguish
boundaries, decency, prim and proper behavior and their
leader is now elected
It's like a culture of borderline narcissists
expect more of the same
zippythepinhead
(374 posts)Get down! Whoopie.
[block quote]
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)There must have been something connecting them all.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Millennials are going to bring so much fail to the workplace....
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)take your slurs elsewhere.
oh and...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1283856
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)Time for a tweet threatening "Marshall Law"!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)nor news. Kids have been brawling in malls for as long as there have been malls and kids. Then, of course, there are the Walmart Black Friday brawls which feature adults. Same shit, different year.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)is definitely new.
Oh, well...there's always Amazon.
Iggo
(47,487 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)by shopping online.
Iggo
(47,487 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)there was the cell phone; before the cell phone, landline phones and before those there was word of mouth. But even if you only want to look at the social media phenom...Facebook was founded in 2004, My Space in 2003... brawls are not new and have nothing to do with the outcome of the recent election.
And yeah, I do more and more shopping on Amazon, it is safer.
yagotme
(2,847 posts)it is called "wilding". Group gets together on social media, certain place, certain time, all hell breaks loose for 10-15 minutes (police response time), and everybody disappears. Some, if not mostly, gang related. Going on for several years now, I believe.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Several years ago the authorities blocked transmissions from cell phone towers serving around a BART station in San Francisco because of expected trouble.
jpak
(41,742 posts)yup
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)according to BBC 4. These weren't people fighting over sale items.
Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)There was a time when malls were rich and vibrant with youthful abandon...
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)I've never heard of Robin Sparkles and I'm so intrigued. I especially like how she rhymed "a-boat."
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)I've watched some of that show, but never would have pictured that character as a Debbie Gibson type.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)No, just good old American consumerism. Shit like this is always going on during big shopping times.
Initech
(99,914 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)2 wks straight. If my family of origin is any indication, the sugar consumption was especially massive this year, and the crankiness displayed by family members was especially vile.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)gun shots being fired at more then one mall. That is not the same as a food fight http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/us/mall-fights-brawls.html?_r=0
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)I stopped with eight examples from each year, so I surely missed others.
The articles often mentioned possible social media influences, just like this year.
2015:
St. Matthews Mall, Louisville KY
Sherwood Mall, Stockton CA
Weberstown Mall, Stockton CA
Patrick Henry Mall, Newport VA
Deptford Center Mall, Deptford NJ
Orange Park Mall, Orange Park FL
Roosevelt Field Mall, Long Island NY
North Riverside Park Mall, North Riverside IL
2014:
Monroeville Mall, Pittsburgh PA
Arden Fair Mall, Sacramento CA
Beachwood Place Mall, Cleveland OH
Chicago Ridge Mall, Chicago IL
Kings Plaza Mall, Brooklyn NY
Wolfchase Galleria Shopping Mall, Memphis TN
Independence Center, Independence MO
Opry Mills Mall, Nashville TN
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)I bet you could go into other days in history in which fights broke out at the same # of malls, but since it wasn't reported as a "rash" then no one thought it was. The same with media-created "crime waves," etc.