Walmart employee beaten by mob of women in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of all the things you could start our show with,
you want to start with this, I.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Don't want to, but I think we have to mention
it because it did go national and viral at the
same time.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Look, there's so many great things going on in our city,
what with the lack of violence and the smooth roads. Yeah,
incredible planning, and I mean, like, there's so many great
things for us to talk about, and you want to
talk about some uber embarrassing fight at the Walmart off
the Keystone Avenue.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yep, it all happened near the front of the store
on Friday. You've seen the video. Everyone has seen the video. Heck,
I wasn't. I was in the mid Atlantic region of
the country and I saw the video.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, okay, So it is interesting that I was wondering
about this because obviously it made national news and everybody
picks it up. And how much of this is the
instant media world that we live in. I mean, clearly,
these people are complete lunatics and totally out of control,
and it's just another indictment of our society and the

(01:11):
devolving of our society. But you do wonder, like, would
this twenty years ago have been national news, Like, hey,
some town. He's got out of control at the Walmart.
Right would it have been national news twenty years ago,
I don't know. But the fact that everything's on film,
and everything can be seen, and everything can be shared instantaneously,

(01:32):
and everything can be uploaded to some sort of social
media account, I think that lays a big role in
these sort of embarrassing events becoming national news.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, and that's just it embarrassing. That's how I felt
for Indianapolis when I saw this show up on my feed.
So several people were at the Indianapolis Walmart. They were
seen hitting one another near the front of the store,
located along Keystone Avenue on the city's north side. And
this is just a quick, only a quick little smidge

(02:01):
of the video. Because there were swear words, we can't
play much of it, but here was just a portion
of the commotion. But you can hear people laughing thinking
that it's funny.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, that's the other part of this, right, is what
I've dubbed them filmer guy, in which it's one thing
to say, I'm filming some event so that we'll have
it for law enforcement to be able to decipher, you know,
who was the aggressor or who did what to see
a swift amount of justice, you know, enforced on our humanity.

(02:43):
But it's it's almost always some guy laughing or doing
editorial commentary as they're filming, and you know, it's not
for any sort of justice. It's so that they can
load it up to their Instagram account totally and look,
some person could theoretically be killed and they would still
sit there and just watch and laugh and comment on it.
And so you're right, it's just you can't. You can't

(03:06):
go anywhere anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Cases. Well, I mean, nothing says family drama like turning
Aisle five into UFC Octagon. Just imagine, though, you're with
your children and you're just trying to go out run
some arns and do some shopping and this breaks out.
No arrests have been made, by the way in that fight, So.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
How is that possible.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's on film, right, so we're just going to carry on.
It reminded me of some of the Fourth of July
violence that happened in Indianapolis, because there were people with
their cameras rolling as they're running from the police, thinking
it's all just a big joke. It's just enabling the
behaviors what it is.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
How could it be on camera with eyewitnesses? I mean,
look like there's just it's very clear. I'm watching it
right now as we're doing this, And yes there's commenter guy,
who's I guess commentar guy peers to have put himself
on camera with this one that and we know Walmart

(04:05):
has cameras. The detail there's even more detail on a
Walmart camera the than this guy would have had or
the other videos that were shot. It's not like these
people are dB Cooper where they just disappear into you know,
some northwestern mountain range. How could there not be any arrests?

(04:26):
How could we not know what's going on and have
a swift apprehension? This was what day was? This was
this Friday? This took all these days run together. This
was Friday, so Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We're on day four
or at least as of right now, there have been
no reported apprehensions. How is that possible?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
How can it be stopped? That's the real question. How
can this culture change? Why do these things keep happening?
You see it all over the place.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, I think that's part part of it is that
I think it lies in filmer editorial laugher guy, where
we just don't I mean, that comes back, It sort
of comes back to, well, it's a variety of things.
It comes back to the Indianapolis City County Council meeting
the other night, where hey, we clearly have totally out
of control youth youth violence in this city. We need

(05:15):
to do something about it. Let's enact a curfew, and
why don't And there's a Republican said, why don't we
put some penalties with said violation of curfew on the parents,
and the Democrats just not only shot it down the
end of the debate. Now that's not even a thing anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, that doesn't want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So you don't have you don't have a sense of
obligation to one parent but also protect people protecting their kids.
And then two the backup that this should be a
society should say, Okay, if you won't do it, then
we will and we're going to punish you for not
doing it. But we won't even do that.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
So there is clearly that's not happening either.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
No, there's nothing, there's nothing, and this is just going
to keep happening. It's going to get more and more
frequent and you just can't. Basically, you have to try,
certainly in any sort of family structure, avoid Indianapolis at
all costs at this point.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
So the rollback deals aren't the only thing coming in
hot at Walmart these days