THE TELEGRAPH: Police in New Jersey have arrested a 16-year-old boy after a Wal-Mart store broadcast an order for 'all black people' to leave the building.
The boy has been charged with bias and intimidation after the racist message was relayed via the store's public address system last week.
According to police, the boy picked up a public-address telephone in the Wal-Mart in Washington Township and said: "All black people, leave the store now."
A store manager apologised for the announcement, and police reviewed CCTV footage to find the boy.
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.
If convicted, the boy, from Atlantic County, New Jersey, could face a year in a juvenile detention centre. >>> | Tuesday, March 22, 2010
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