16-Year-Old Boy Arrested in Walmart Non-Crime Case, Faces Up to One Year Behind Bars

By Nicholas Stix
Updated at 6:14 and 6:37 p.m., on Sunday, March 21, 2010.
Last updated at 6:43 p.m., on Sunday, March 21, 2010.

Washington Township Police Chief Rafael Muniz and Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean F. Dalton



Constitution? We don't need no steenkin' Constitution!

Dear Reader,

You may not be aware of this, but offending blacks is now a crime in Jim Snow America. (Offending Hispanics, too.) Do not, I repeat, do not reach for the copy of the U.S. Constitution in your pocket… if you’re white. You won’t find any such law in it, or anywhere else. But that doesn’t matter because, if you’re white, the Constitution and laws of the land are no longer in effect. If you don’t believe me, just ask Attorney General Eric Holder.

The MSM have given saturation coverage to the latest racist atrocity, with 1,511 stories cited at Google. No, not the Pearcy Massacre, silly! I’m speaking, of course, of the boy who used a “public-address telephone” available for use by customers at a Walmart in Washington Township, NJ, to announce,

“All black people, leave the store now.”

The boy, from Atlantic County, was charged by Gloucester County authorities with bias and intimidation and harassment in connection with the episode last Sunday. If convicted, he could face up to a year in a juvenile detention center, officials said. His name was not released because he is a minor.

According to the police, the boy picked up a public-address telephone in the Wal-Mart in Washington Township, one of two dozen accessible to the store’s customers, and said, “All black people, leave the store now.”

A store manager quickly apologized over the public-address system, witnesses said, and the police and the store opened separate investigations that included a review of images captured by the store’s security cameras.

Rafael Muñiz, the Washington Township police chief, said that while the cameras did not record anyone speaking on the public-address system, images showed three people — the suspect, a young man and a woman — standing near the phone just before the announcement, and rushing from the store just after it.

Investigators also scoured Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, and found postings, including some that the police chief said involved “kids bragging” about what happened.

With the help of anonymous tipsters, he added, investigators were led to the suspect, who was arrested Friday.

“We got lucky,” Chief Muñiz said Saturday at a news conference.

The suspect had been accompanied to the store by a friend and the friend’s mother, the authorities said. Neither the friend nor his mother had been charged, though Chief Muñiz left open the possibility that they could face prosecution for failing to report a crime.

The police would not disclose any details about the suspect, including his race.
In the course of their inquiry, officials said, investigators discovered at least two similar occurrences at the store in recent months.

“Arrest in Racial Case at N.J. Wal-Mart” by Kirk Semple and Nate Schweber, New York Times, March 20, 2010.

First of all, what the boy did was certainly in poor taste, but did not violate any laws in the United States of America. Only in the Law & Order, Bizarro World of Law, does his act constitute “bias” and “intimidation.”

Second, the police didn’t “get lucky.” You “get lucky,” when you catch a murderer on the way to commit another heinous crime. You “get lucky,” when you stop a guy just about to commit rape. You don’t get lucky, hunting down and arresting a non-criminal, much less “with the help of anonymous tipsters.”

Third, Washington Township Police Chief Rafael Muniz and Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean F. Dalton have entirely too much free time on their hands, and have no business in the jobs they currently hold. Muniz should be stripped of his gun and badge, Dalton should be disbarred, and both men should spend at least one night in jail for committing the crime of false arrest. (Actually, with a backlog of 20 unsolved murders in his jurisdiction, Dalton already had more than enough real work to keep busy.)

Fourth, why did the New York Times make this absurd business an above-the-fold, front page story, while refusing to ever mention the Pearcy Massacre? (Likewise, why did the paper take almost three years before it would so much as mention the Knoxville Horror, and then bury a mere 109-word AP item on the atrocity on page 10?)

And why was the Times concerned about “the suspect’s” race? For 63 years, the Times has conspired to cover up the race of black criminals, but all of a sudden, in a non-crime case in which blacks were offended, it is eagerly asking the authorities about “the suspect’s” race?

And are lawmen in black and Hispanic areas now going to “[leave] open the possibility that [locals] could face prosecution for failing to report a crime? Never mind, the question was rhetorical!

The Walmart case continues an outrageous pattern of authorities across the nation illegally arresting, prosecuting, and jailing (so far exclusively white) people who have committed no crime, but who have offended the delicate sensibilities of blacks or Hispanics: The Janice Barton, Lonnie Rae, Jeremiah Munsen, and Sean D. Fitzgerald and Zachary E. Tucker cases.

You can have “diversity” or you can have the U.S. Constitution, but you can’t have both.