Teen Clothing-Store Melee Caught on Video in Philly
- Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:39pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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One of the mannequins wore a shirt saying “Not Violence,” but that didn’t stop a group of teens from coming to blows in a Philadelphia H&M department store last Thursday.
According to video posted on the internet, a group of mostly teen girls started a melee in the middle of the sales floor. CBSPhilly.com describes the scene:
Video shows the store in disarray, a mannequin wearing a “Not Violence” t-shirt was knocked to the ground and lost it’s head, a gift card display was knocked over and pieces of a woman’s hair weave were strewn on the floor.
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According to CBS, police arrived on the scene shortly after the video ends and arrested several of those involved. They face juvenile charges, including reckless endangerment.



















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pajamash
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:12pm: ( Sigh….
Report Post »ByrdDogX
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:12pmOne word sums it up! CLASSY!
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:10pmprobably cause that was no maple syrup in the store-lol
Report Post »herculesmom
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:10pmCommon theme among all these video’s……young and black!
Report Post »Redhandpaddy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:06pmThis is what years of welfare dependency, political correctness and the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rengel and their ilk along with the rest of the Democrat party keeping blacks on the plantation they created, brings. Wake up black people and stop letting Jackson, Sharpton, Rengel and the Democrats keep you in poverty and enslaved.
Report Post »NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:37pmI agree. When children are left to raise themselves or left to the public schools and union teachers to raise them, teaching morals, right and wrong and basic common curtosy (sp?) are not in their job description. So this is what you get, kids resolving their disagreements in the most basic way with their fists, and the survival of the fittest.
Report Post »atl3128
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:06pmAnd the common denominator is??????? Thats right you guessed it
Report Post »i want the truth
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:06pmGoodness. Why is it so hard to keep your self in control in this country? Well no one is responsible for their actions anymore!! Look at Barry and his thugs for instance. Is it really that hard to ask congress the question of should we get involved with supporting the people of Lybia? If Bush would of done this we would never hear the end of it!! Or how about supporting Black Panther groups that were blocking our poll stations!! Which I am still turning my head about this one!! Supporting Acorn, Planned Parenthood, bailout after bailout, the car junk program, printing money, starting riots in Wisconsin! Or not letting us drill for oil on our countries soil! But we will support a terrorist drilling oil in the Gulf!! Mr Barry has been involved with corrupting America! Look at how many visits the White House has had by Lerner, Trumpka, Soros, Micheal Moore!! Just to name a few!! Believe me they are not baking cupcakes!!(you know b/c they are so popular) Wake up America! Barry has done more harm on our country and I want him to be held accountable!! If we can not start at the top and show example! then who is? The American people deserve someone who is trust worthy and a good leader! Lead by example!! I know Bush wasn‘t the best president but he didn’t cheat the system! He followed the Constitution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:05pmfunny, I think you’re spot on Voice. First thing I thought. People are acting like animals anymore. Maybe it’s just a sign of the times.
Report Post »jb1972
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:04pmActually the guy that admits having “some good video” sounds white (clear spoken english). I think what you heard was a black (sounding based on ebonics) male was laughing! Sorry it sounds racist.
Report Post »They were acting stupidly!
Carl1
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:04pmSuch honest and loving people. NOT!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:01pmLOL Jolly, you nailed it! And when stores and eateries begin to post the “2 student limit” signs on the stores they will pull the race card.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:41pm@termlimitsnow,you know they can‘t play something they don’t have anymore. that card was played way to much now ,as like the little boy who cried wolf,no one would come to his rescue for the many lies he told,so again,that card has been played,what is happening is they are turning on each other so where is the race card going to fit in???? it ain’t!!!!!!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:00pmjust think taught by unions and will be our future leaders???? lord please help us turn this around asap.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:07pmThese “people” won’t live long enough to be our future leaders, thank god! They’ll kill each other off soon enough, hopefully take a few illegal aliens with them!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:58pmThis kind of thing is happening everywhere. It’s causing normal people, especially the older people to no longer go to the shopping malls. Malls in central city areas are practically dead. There are job losses due to these malls closing down, and the final slap in the face is these same “customers” are driving out to suburban malls, to put them out of business too. These animals need to be put in cages.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:37pm@TEDDRUNK
As one drunk to another, you had me until the last sentence. sigh :-(
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:55pmWell Otto, by that I meant JAIL TIME. I’m tired of ANY race of people causing criminal destruction and mayhem and getting off with community service when they finally do get arrested.
Report Post »AceRusso
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:08pmit is a cultural issue unfolding just as you speak. i live in an area where the cities all meld together. in one city the lower class people destroyed their mall and it is now closed. so every day they bus over to my towns nicer mall and cause all kinds of trouble. there needs to be a cultural shift.
Report Post »dtitus1304
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:56pmMore black women fighting? I am shocked. They are such calm creatures.
Report Post »jollylama
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:56pmkinda a metaphore of the obama admin shell game.. they create a crisis with their left hand while they rob us blind with the right.
cjgemelli
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:56pmGo figure….
Report Post »brian910
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:55pmWell….there they go again…
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:55pmHolders people?
Report Post »the iceman
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:38pmBarry’s people!
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:54pmI think you are just a bit over the top here, well past the point of being racist….
Report Post »Ozymandias
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:54pmAs Henry Ford so deftly stated, “It is what is IS!“ or in the parlance of our times ”It be what it be!“ Racism is a ”Red Herring” Trump Card for pseudo intellectual elitist liberals.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:57pm@ozymandias. they can’t plat that trump card. the deck is now equal remember??? is that not how the left see it???? you can‘t play something you don’t have any more. only if they play the race card own their own race!!!!!!!
Report Post »Schteveo
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:00pmA.T.T.R.
Report Post »read my comment above yours, I JUST said race plays no part in this. ‘Stupid and selfish’ isn’t a race!!
texasfarmer
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:00amTruth hurts doesn’t it.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:49pmWow, I am shocked. Please don’t let this destroy your faith in the integrity of the African American community. I know, I know, two days in a row we see this type of occurrence. Where’s Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? And yes, please throw all the labels at me. As I said yesterday or the day before this is the sort of thing that happens when all of your life everything has been handed to you and you expect something. No self respect or respect for others. Shame on democRATS for doing this to the African American families.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:58pmmy next door neighbor is a black family and in all honesty, my favorite neighbors. One of the sweetest black ladies I have met in a long time just left my store.
Report Post »It was mentioned in the Burger King video by someone that these kids relatives fought for their rights, and this is what they do with it. Very sad…
TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:00pmTwo days??? More like EVERYDAY! Don’t make them out to be victims, they are not.
Report Post »SoCalWalt
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:52pmYou are right that it’s the liberals who have done this to black America. They’re the ones who force fed the “victim” agenda to them, and they’re now surprised that they feel themselves victims. With the number of thoughtful, open-minded, wonderfully educated, well-spoken and even wildly successful blacks in this country, it’s time for the black community to start focusing on those role models rather than the punks with their “pants-at-their-knees, you owe me” attitudes.
Report Post »Sheltiman
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:04pmWhat we have to start doing is to stop looking at this kind of behavior as a racial issue and call it what it is, it is a cultural issue. These kinds of acts, the bikini girl in BK, the spaghetti Hog on the MTA, it is the result of a FAILED CULTURE. We must call it out every time without being afraid of what we may be labeled. Don’t participate, don’t let it into your home, and don’t subsidize it. That means most music, TV shows and movies. That means contacting your representatives and insisting that any assistance be tied to measurable progress to join a civil American society.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:00pmI totally agree. The liberals in America have not done any favors for the black community. But this doesnt make blacks victims, or unresponsible for their own actions. When will we see a black leader come forth and lead this culture back to some sort of respectability? DO NOT point to Sharpton and Jackson, and certainly not Obama. They make their living off keeping this going. Talk about shame.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:48pmBefore I watch, I predict that it is gong to be black girls.
Report Post »Now I’ll watch it.
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:51pmSpot on right. Now, who is going to pay for the damages?
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:53pmGood guess. But did you actually think it would be anyone else?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:54pmDon’t only blame the kids, blame their lazy, un-caring, so-called parents.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:02pmI blame them both T, they are not victims, they have no common decency. And they wonder why employees follow them around the stores.
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:03pmThought the same thing and I was hoping I would be wrong.
Report Post »TargetDestroyed01
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:03pmTo, Anonymous T. Irrelevant – Good points. I do have one minor correction per your comment, “Don’t only blame the kids, blame their lazy, un-caring, so-called parents.“ Instead of the word parents” you should have used the singular “parent” and not the plural form of the word. Statistically speaking, there is about a 70% change that these mindless, ill-bred monsters had only one parent in their household. That is how they became the sterling jewels of animalistic behavior that they appear to be. The male “donor” (I will not use the term “father”. Father implies a loving, caring male household figure.) was probably never involved in these creatures lives beyond inception. There was probably only a rudementary mother involved and I am betting these offspring got very little in the way of proper behavior training from her. And a good guess would be that not only the parents but the grand parents of these malcontents were brought up in a similar environment. This is the result of the welfare state and how for serveral generations now it has damaged society to a point that caused what would have been normal, decent well behaved productive youth to become violent, sensless mindless animals. Some of you may think this is a stretch but I am betting many more will know it is not. Of course, in this particular instance, we will never know because no reporter or media outlet will ever hunt the truth down and find out what the background is of these delinquents really is. That truth would not fit their agenda.
Thank you for your indulgence. TargetDestroyed01
Report Post »BigBouy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:29pmShocking that it was blacks!
Report Post »freeus
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:39am@Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Report Post »I get so tired of people blaming the parent(s). There comes a point in everyone’s life, it is called “adulthood”, when a person is expected to accept responsibility for their behavior. Everyone has a conscience and whatever a parent did or didn’t do is no excuse for behaving badly. This isn’t about race, this is about adults acting like destructive animals.
LadyIzShy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:48pmMike i thought the same thing.. Its s sad thought that todays youth are so lacking morals and values that they would do these things.. if that were MY child I would have them back at the store working for free to pay for damages and to teach them a lesson..
Report Post »Mominfla51
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:05amMy child would be cleaning up too and grounded for the rest on the year. Did anyone think that this might be a “staged” fight!!! Kids now days like to “start” something so they can be on Utube and tell all their friends to “watch me and my drama”. There are no consequences to any of these actions and that is a big problem. Parents teach your children the moral and ethical things in life…it’s not all about “me”. SO sad to see the generations of kids that do not know simple manners. I work in a grocery store and we give balloons to the kids for free. They demand a balloon and the parent stands there saying nothing and of course they don’t say thank you. I look at them and tell them to say “may I have a balloon, please” and when I give it to them (joyfully) I remind them to say “Thank you”. The parent just stands there like a bump on a log. SO how else do we expect them to behave when they are on their own in any kind on store if they don’t get what they demand…….
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:45pmdang, people on the sidelines actually got involved and stopped this thing. Good for them….
Report Post »kindling
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:02pmThe great thing about using cell phones to organize something that harms or destroys people or property is that you can find the one that starts these and prosicute. I love cell phone records. I will say I do not know if there is any record of prepaid phones and I guess they can just say their phone was stolen, but it is a place to start.
Report Post »wallyworld
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:45pmAnd this is surprising because …
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:22pmWhat is a weave?
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:45pmPlease hold off on racist comments, these are not Wisconsin teachers!
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:17pmHere we go again, another racist video ! everytime I see things like this, it is almost always black people causing the problem, I mean there are at least 4 times as many white people as there are black, yet it is almost always black people in the video, same thing with the TV show 48 hours, almost all the crimes are commitied by blacks or hispanics …… HMMM ,,,,
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:36pmOk….no real shock here.
RLTW
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:40pmYou know it’s said that before an earthquake /major event the animals start acting strange, there not sure why, it believed to be instinct.
From what we’re seeing around the world I think something bad is coming on a very human level.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:43pm@KALISH
You mean to tell me that you haven’t seen union thugs (white) go after Tea Party people who were assembling peacefully? This is bigger than race and we must stay unified. We can’t allow these law-breakers to tear us apart; that’s what the Commies want. Those bastards!
Report Post »True2thereplublic
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:58pmKalish
Stop your crying you act like white people are just waiting for Blacks to screw up so they can post a video on Youtube.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:01pmBlack or white, trash is trash.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:21pmHmmm for some reason my previous question got yanked. I was simply asking about whether anyone else saw a common theme to this video and the one in the BK in Florida. Seems to me an obvious example of young adults not having been taught how to respect others’ property and to act with decorum in public. Just wanting to point out some apparent lack of parenting (ooops, is that racist?)
Report Post »tooksdad
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:24pmHere we go again. Now can you pick out trend class?
Report Post »NetGear
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:33pm@KALISH ~ How is the video “racist”? There’s no sign of racism in the video. Ironically, your comments can be considered more racist than anything in the video. You’re the one that speaks of “whites and blacks.“ I saw no other fights in the store where ”whites” were involved. I think you need to look more closely at the reason most videos, such as that one, have the people they do making fools of themselves in spite of demographic inequities. People shooting video like that one don’t care who the actors turn out to be, because they often sell the video to media orgs. You can even hear someone at the end of the video asking for a copy.
Report Post »Steven Sullivan
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:53pmBlack people commit far more crimes. Simple as that..
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:04pmA people, I was being facetious
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:27pmSo who has to clean up the mess?
Somebody is upset and feels they have the right to fight about it, but does not feel a bit of remorse for the damage they caused defending their honor….then WHAT IS HONOR (if this is the case)?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:45pmWell now, wasn’t that a class act?
Interesting that it took so many guys to break it up.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:21pmPhiladelphia H&M department store announces 10% off if you show your welfare card.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:03pmOh look! ANOTHER VIDEO OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO CAN’T CONTROL THEMSELVES IN PUBLIC! Come on black community! Get some self control! Y’all look like animals!
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:37pmHaha blaze delete my comment? Ill say it again, why no videos of white kids on jersey shore real world? Doesnt fit your racist world view? and for the poster who said blacks commit more crimes, get real. Blacks are more likely to be prosecuted.
Ozymandias
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:56pmYou’re on target there as according to the Census and the FBI Blacks comprise 38% of the population of the US yet manage to commit 65% of violent crime. Their school colors are the jail cell pods they were last assigned to and their choice for post secondary education is the penitentiary. Children of Cain.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:10pmHey ozymandius, what hurts the u.s. more, blacks getting put in jail for petty drug crimes, or white collar crimes commited overwhelmingly by whites that go unpunished. Your comment shows a total lack of intellectual honesty.
Report Post »arx
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:29pmGinsberg read “the color of crime”, or just turn on the 6 oclock news once in awhile
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:43pmWhat on earth is going on in the world? Something in the cosmos is having a strange effect on the animals.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:00amSince 1964 the Gov’t has been pushing down our throats the POLITICAL CORRECT INDOCTRINATION with terms like the “beauty of diversity” myth. The irony is, the people that talk about diversity, like the Jimmy Carter‘s and Kennedy’s of the world don‘t live in those area’s they live in all white places called “compounds” like Hyannis port and Plains Georgia, code for “white sanctuary” cities. It‘s the white’s that can’t afford to move that have to suffer the “beauty of diversity” myth.
Report Post »COURTNEY SMITH
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:12amJust another example of lack of discipline and values….
Report Post »What do we expect when society teaches the young and old
nothing is your fault….Blame everybody else !!!!
Brasil2520
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:31amBlacks in groups = Violence
Blackest cities in America (2005 US Census)
1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Gary, Indiana
3. Birmingham, Alabama
4. Jackson, Mississippi (17th highest homicide)
5. New Orleans, Louisiana
Highest homicide rates by city (2006 FBI Report)
1. New Orleans, Louisiana
2. Gary, Indiana
3. Detroit, michigan
4. Flint, Michigan (13th most black)
5. Birmingham, Alabama
“ Tolerance and apathy are the first signs of a dying society” – Aristotle
Report Post »WTH
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:46amDon‘t act like a stereotype if you don’t want to be called stereotypical names. Once it is reality then it really isn’t a stereotype, but actuality.
Where are Jesse and Al on this one? Nevermind I guess black on black crime is okay, since I see it over and over and over again and Jackson and Sharpton remain silent.
Seriously, when is the general public at large going to start acting like civil humans? What is so important that could happen in a clothing store that would justify behavior like this? Answer….nothing. And yet another store gets trashed by trash.
Ps. I think I’m starting to see a trend…….Hmmmmm.
Report Post »The Realist
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:04amSteven Sullivan
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:53pm
Black people commit far more crimes. Simple as that..
DING DING DING! WE HAVE A WINNER. Pay attention (some of you) people-you can learn something. (But honestly I doubt it, you’ll likely go on insisting that there are more black people in jails because of all the “racist police” and such)
Report Post »Love glenn protect glenn
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:13amIn this pc world, teachers are afraid of these kids in the classrooms too.
Report Post »The Realist
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:56amAt what point will someone in the black communities besides Bill Cosby PUBLICALLY and LOUDLY DENOUCE this ANIMAL behavior? People call it monkey behavior- I honestly I think monkeys act better! This is no different from the Muslims. Muslims, just like the blacks, all want their reputations protected, but they AREN’T WILLING TO DO WHAT IT TAKES-HINT: it STARTS with GETTING YOUR PEOPLE UNDER CONTROL, and PEER PRESSURE and CONDEMNATION is a GOOD START. As at least one other person mentioned, the stores are little by little playing a VERY big price for this, due to CIVILIZED people not wanting to go to these places anymore. Then of course, the eventual result? Stores close, even more people out of work, and even more damage to our already shattered economy. What a joke.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:36pmKalish, it is so sad, but your comment is accurate. I don’t see how it is racist to make an accurate observation. If indeed this is happening with kids of other races as often, I wish they would link to those videos also so that we don’t draw incorrect conclusions. After the Burger King video yesterday and this one today, it is difficult to ignore the similarities. I want to be fair about this.
Report Post »NetGear
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:34pm@KALISH ~ “… I was being facetious” — Taking you at your word… thanks for the heads-up, I’m a new poster. Not a fan of emoticons, either, but at times I guess they serve a purpose.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:39pmYep, more high class blacks acting their color.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:49pmJust remember. All these folks who cry foul that its blacks we see time and time again in these destructive situations, do so to make you feel uncomfortable. Its meant to shut you up without having to be accountable for the truth of things. If they can use PC to intimidate you, they can continue along their merry way, never having to be responsible for anything. We have been toned into accepting this for far too long. This IS black culture! Muslims DO hate us! Illegal immagrants are NOT a bonus to this country. If you dont make your stand now, you wont have anywhere to stand tomorrow.
Report Post »warrior21
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 5:43amAre they imported from the Florida Burger King? Seem to be something familiar about them.
Report Post »charleshammermartel
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 4:52amlol
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