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Walmart Flash Mob: Police Say 300 Youths Create Havoc at Jacksonville Store (VIDEO)

First Posted: 07/18/12 09:38 AM ET Updated: 07/19/12 01:52 PM ET

When you party at this place, you never run out of ice, chips, paper plates, beer and soda -- all at affordable prices.

Youths who had their house party broken up by the cops quickly moved the rager to a nearby Jacksonville Walmart on Saturday night, creating a veritable flash mob, according to News 4JAX.

A police report obtained by the station said the group of about 300 destroyed an electronic anti-shop lifting security scanner that costs about $1,500.

The Florida Times Union reports that the youngsters also allegedly stole snacks and sodas from the store and that gunshots were fired into the air outside the Walmart, but no one was injured.

Police are looking over video of the incident to determine if charges will be filed, and there was also a report that someone was shot at the preceding house party. Both incidents are under investigation, according to the Times Union.

Video of the Walmart flash mob posted on YouTube generated a number of racially-tinged comments about the mostly African-Americans featured in the clip.

Some commenters expressed a general sense of dismay.

"As you watch this video, you watch the future of America," one commenter wrote. "How does it look?"

 
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08:52 PM on 07/24/2012
If combined the IQ's of that entire group, it wouldn't equal one normal person.
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jchowell3657
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11:54 AM on 07/24/2012
Looks like some pretty good video of the perpetrators. How many will be tracked down and prosecuted?
08:39 AM on 07/24/2012
flash mob (or flashmob)[1] is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression
06:01 AM on 07/24/2012
If they can do this, they can push their way into your home too. I think I am going to begin carrying a gun. This is just to crazy,
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Farmerswife2
09:33 AM on 07/24/2012
Yeah, you better, I'll very well will stand my ground, no apologies either.
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Fred Stender
11:43 PM on 07/25/2012
Yep, very logical conclusion
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Bunny Olesen
01:00 AM on 07/24/2012
Just start calling it what it is BLACK FLASH MOBS or just 'black mobs' because that's what it is, when white people have a 'flash mob' they all break out in the tango or something in the middle of the mall at a predetermined time.
Black flash mobs are not 'set up' they just 'happen' and ALWAYS involve destruction; OFTEN involve assaulting whites; and are just ridiculous, low brow, trashy, and why do the rest of us have to LIVE LIKE THIS?
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Fred Stender
11:45 PM on 07/25/2012
Why to the 1% top and 10% bottom get to break the law with no prosecution, and the middle class gets robbed.
09:21 PM on 07/22/2012
White people just get free things with food stamps, wow, how noble.

These people are a spirited bunch who implicitly realize that money is printed and Wal-Mart is subsidized by -who else- the taxpayer. Maybe you've got a whole bunch of reasons why you want to make some family in Arkansas rich but I don't.
09:15 PM on 07/22/2012
LOL. The difference is that white people would rely on taxpayer dollars by getting food stamps.

These guys just cut out the middleman and are a heck of a lot more ebullient than the tragic scenes at 11:59pm before the 5th of the month when the local white meth heads load up their carts.
12:06 PM on 07/26/2012
Missing your point - are you trying to justify their behavior? someone was shot in the leg at their house party and more gun fire in the parking lot. - 1.5K damage.. spirited bunch? Seriously are you trying to be funny or am I missing something - please elaborate -
11:36 AM on 07/22/2012
Idiot newscasters don't know what a flash mob is. Get your terminology correct. That's a mob of looters, not a flash mob.
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04:37 PM on 07/20/2012
Well these are mostly all Obama voters. this does not bode well for obama and what he has done to America. Acorn members, hmm America is in big trouble
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dannywanny
06:31 PM on 07/24/2012
You seem to be confused, Willy. You're in the wrong room. The political rant room is down the hall and to the right. Just follow the sound of the whining and you can't miss it.
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Bunny Olesen
12:24 AM on 07/26/2012
They are ALL Obama voters. 95% of blacks voted for Obama.
THAT shows an incredibly high amount of hatred and racism.
I'm sick of hearing that whites are racist; while blacks scream racial hate word at us & if in a comment (like here) those comments are approved, showing total disregard for anti-white racism; while blacks only vote for blacks no matter how incompetent or unqualified. IF an all white voting district still existed and they NEVER elected a black official there'd be some kind of washington march & demands that blacks be cut into their district, while the EXISTING all black voting districts are 100% represented by black officials, those same people feel 'that's fair' because ONLY a black politician could EVER understand how they feel, what they've been through, and what they want.
OK fair enough.
I feel the same way about blacks representing ME in an official capacity, but, I'd be called a white supremacist.
However, if whites are TOTALLY incapable of representing a black district (politically) out of some kind of 'ignorance or inability to do their jobs' JUST BECAUSE he's WHITE; and they are black; then why am I expected to believe that blacks could understand what I need or want, what I've been through or how I feel? NON UNDERSTANDING is not peculiar to whites - and yet WE are forced constantly to have representation by people who only seem to want to help their own race.

America IS MOST DEFINITELY IN BIG TROUBLE.
12:18 PM on 07/26/2012
What you witnessed is where your (mine, our) tax $$$ will be going to support most all of these teen blacks in years to come... How dare someone make a comment that this behavior was caused because there are no jobs.. REALLY... Pls stop making excuses... I bet most of their parents had no clue or care where their teens were let alone worried about jobs... It's the "you owe me" mentality that's bringing the responsible American (Black, White, Yellow, Brown) down... This is SAD and yet no, let me repeat, NO outrage within their own community leadership...only Blame, blame, blame others outside of their race for ALL the wrongs of the world over the past 10,000 years... This video does not help change the stereotypes of young black teens in America - shootings, disrespect, disregard of property, on and on - Sure it's a big joke... and it's on the rest of America...oh and we're paying for it...
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12:19 PM on 07/20/2012
Civilized behavior cannot be voted or legislated to people
06:06 AM on 07/24/2012
You are probably right. We cannot legislate decent behavior. But we can begin to defend ourselves.
10:15 AM on 07/20/2012
just chimps chimpin' out mane...
04:24 PM on 07/21/2012
ya mama is a chimp too cracker!
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Bunny Olesen
12:09 AM on 07/26/2012
Yeah? Well I'm sure his mother is not out throwing watermelons across the floor of a Walmart while literally making chimp noises.
09:50 AM on 07/20/2012
I think the only reason people do this kind of stuff is to have their 10 seconds of fame on youtube. If the horrible videos like this are deleted before they go viral, maybe it might stop people from doing this kind of destructive behavior. I see this and think of all the people in the USA who are starving and these kids just destroy all this food. God help us. Those kids are the future, we are doomed.