Posted on 08/25/2023 6:23:23 PM PDT by simpson96
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — After a movie day event at the Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville went awry last year, the city’s police chief is warning parents to be on guard and tell their children “no” before the next one.
An all-day $4 movie day will be held by Regal Cinemas on Sunday. Last year’s $3 movie day turned into a day of “several fights and much chaos,” where police and sheriff’s deputies had to intervene.
Police Chief Dr. Gary Sparks put out a release to the community Friday morning urging parents to stay at the mall and keep their kids in line, instead of just dropping them off.
The day’s events on Sept. 3, 2022 ended with 19 children arrested, and one adult, after hundreds started fighting at the mall.
Police warned parents then that they were “not there to raise your children.” The letter from Sparks Friday echoed a similar sentiment, though more aimed at how to parent than not having law enforcement do it instead.
Sparks noted in his release that he himself was a father.
“Don’t let the mall’s movies raise your child,” Sparks said in the release. The document noted that his words were aimed at “the parents who pull up to the mall, let their kids out, and leave. ‘When they get out of your presence, they might do things that will come back and embarrass you.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
It's that easy!
Those were some tall children.
Teens. That’s all one has to know. Teens.
It won’t be a repeat of last year. No sir.
We raised the price a whole dollar. That’ll keep out the riff raff. Yeah.
More children of Obeyme:
Betcha they were not just *children*.
I meant to add a period at the end of the last sentence, not a colon.
They were the feral children of Obeyme.
Were the “children” of the brawl Amish?
I say, let them fight till they are bloodied and misfigured. I want eyeballs gouged, and fingers bitten off. Who cares about them. Decent people should know better and learn to run.
What parents?
I’d guess sunday is a bad day to shop at Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville.
The GA statute requires “an intent to fight” - i.e. the fight was planned beforehand.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.