Walmart mom fight on video: Woman involved tells her story in radio interview

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BEECH GROVE, Ind. -- Charges have not been filed in a fight between two women at a Beech Grove Wal-Mart that was captured on cellphone video.

The video shows 34-year-old Amber Stephenson and 39-year-old Rebecca Mills fighting while a 6-year-old child watches nearby and is even encouraged to get involved. The video was uploaded to YouTube and had already been watched more than 1.5 million times by Tuesday morning. You can watch video of the fight in the player above.

Officers with the Beech Grove Police Department said they were called to the store minutes after the fight broke out last Thursday just after 10 p.m. The video of the fight surfaced on YouTube Monday.

The incident appears to start with a verbal argument that quickly escalates into a physical altercation.

The video shows Stephenson telling the child to punch the other woman in the face. The child can be seen hitting the woman and throwing items at her that he takes from the store shelves.

A Wal-Mart spokesman said store management called police about one minute and thirty seconds after the fight started. He said it is the store’s policy for associates not to engage in fights.

"This type of behavior inside one of our stores is completely unacceptable and we are notifying the individuals involved that they are no longer welcome on Wal-Mart property. Once we were aware of this situation, a member of our management immediately called the police and we are continuing to work with them on this matter," said spokesman Aaron Mullins.

Police said no arrests were made because officers did not have immediate access to the store's surveillance video and both women told conflicting stories.

It is now up to prosecutors to determine what, if any, charges will be filed in the case.

A third-party security company was in the store at the time of the incident, but was on the other side of the store when the fight broke out.

The Smiley Morning Show says they spoke with Stephenson on Tuesday morning. She told them she overheard Mills yell a racial slur when interacting with a store employee. That is when she jumped in with a few words of her own.

Stephenson said her son has taken martial arts classes and spent years in the gym with his dad.

"He's a little crazy kid. I mean, he's just one that I don't ever have to worry about him being bullied in high school," Stephenson said on the radio. "My son is a straight-A student, he's been on the honor roll all year, his kindergarten year, he is the teacher's pet. He's in a Christian private school. My son is raised perfectly right."

You can hear the interview by clicking the play button below:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/fight-at-beech-grove-wal-mart-caught-on-video

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Provide proof that I'm racist or shut your mouth - you're the person who repeatedly makes racial slurs about white people.

Go on - provide that proof, or just admit that you're a liar.

I just did.  You are too--ahhh, I don't want to say stupid--but perhaps imperceptive to understand it.  I could go on and on about how you cherry pick your arguments...A black man died in Baltimore, and you were more worried about a car burning, fgs!  Whenever a black man figures into a story, you are against him.

I could go on and on...why don't you see if you can remember the name of the black man who died.  Or didn't it happen in your mind?

I do hope you're going to pull Ben up for getting the name wrong of a white guy who was killed by police.

I believe the guy killed by Baltimore police was Freddie Gray.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/10/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-death-sparks-outrage/?page=all

Original Quill wrote:I believe the guy killed by Baltimore police was Freddie Gray.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/10/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-death-sparks-outrage/?page=all

Correct. I said that on page 2, but you clearly weren't paying attention.

Mother involved in vicious Indiana Walmart fight - which went viral - says the punch-up started over 'the n-word'

"Amber Stephenson called her local radio station – the Smiley Morning Show on WZPL – to reveal what caused the shocking brawl at the Beech Grove store in Indiana.

Ms Stephenson said she was walking by the woman she would later fight, with her six-year-old son, when she heard the woman call an employee “the n-word.”

She said: “She [the woman] was sitting there yelling at an employee, at Walmart, and she was telling her that she was a n****r and that she was going to get out of the chair and whoop her ass.

“She used the ‘n-word’ so, in my defence, I was standing up for the employee,” Ms Stephenson explained." "

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-involved-in-vicious-indiana-walmart-fight--which-went-viral--says-the-punchup-started-over-the-nword-10309367.html

@lex wrote:Mother involved in vicious Indiana Walmart fight - which went viral - says the punch-up started over 'the n-word'

"Amber Stephenson called her local radio station – the Smiley Morning Show on WZPL – to reveal what caused the shocking brawl at the Beech Grove store in Indiana.

Ms Stephenson said she was walking by the woman she would later fight, with her six-year-old son, when she heard the woman call an employee “the n-word.”

She said: “She [the woman] was sitting there yelling at an employee, at Walmart, and she was telling her that she was a n****r and that she was going to get out of the chair and whoop her ass.

“She used the ‘n-word’ so, in my defence, I was standing up for the employee,” Ms Stephenson explained." "

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-involved-in-vicious-indiana-walmart-fight--which-went-viral--says-the-punchup-started-over-the-nword-10309367.html

Hello.

Well, apologies to Ms. Stephenson if she was putting up the good fight for a noble cause.  But that only redoubles my comments for the bad person...the fat woman faking it in the electric cart.

That corpulent cunnus is what this wave of conservatism has brought down on the civilized world.

still fighting like that is pretty pathetic and both showed themselves up .

Eilzel wrote:Raggs you seem to be missing the point.

BigA amd others who remain here have a habit of posting news stories explicitly pointing out the religion of Muslims (or Asians), even where that has nothing to do with what happened. Of course some people say nothing, I guess because it is so commonplace.

Yet when the same is done only replacing the word 'Muslim' with 'Christian', there is uproar by a minority of Christian posters.

Why? You had no problem when the same was done with regards to crimes by people who happened to be Muslims (or if you did you were silent on it).

Quill's thread here was simply in a exercise in showing up double standards.

Hmmmm so.....instead of just reporting the thread titles that are wrong we are now playing tit for tat?

Oh.

I thought quill was an intelligent, well-educated grown up.


Seriously you people are so fucking childish it actually makes me wonder if I struck gold when I found a man that didn't act the way some of you "men" do on here!

Here's an idea:

When a thread title, breaks the rules - report it!


Two wrongs never make a right.
Perhaps it's QUILL that needs to resign from HIS job??

"Don't take them to court madam just kill her husband. Tit for tat and all that!"

Fuck me! grow the fuck up.
Everyone!

Ps les that wasn't aimed at you directly but it was your post I answered just to be clear to all the clucking ducks.

http://www.newsfixboard.com/t10044-a-reminder-of-a-very-simple-and-basic-rule

There you go little forgetful heads.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

BigA? The chap who hasn't posted here for - oooh, how long now?

So this was a thread aimed at him?

That's a bit pathetic, don't you think?

I think you're missing the point that there was no indication that those women were Christian extremists, or even Christians.

You don't see the fact that HF has taken up BA's torch?

Care to give some examples?

Do you really want this forum to become one long "point-making" exercise - a tit-for-tat scenario with people using misleading titles just to score points? I thought it was a news forum. I mean - didn't you say that last night?

Exactly rags.

I am astounded that a man of a supposed intellect and age can act in such a manner then go all frothy at the mouth and "demand I resign!"

I mean...hallo????? It's a forum!!!!!! There are real crimes out there!!!


If anyone has a problem with thread titles why not just report them???????????????


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I'll wait for an answer.
Or perhaps I already know the answer

I disagree, VOD.  I'll stick up for Ms. Stephenson, if it happened that way.  It may well have started with her being civil, trying to civilize an out-of-control beast...and ending with her having to defend herself.

What makes me say this is that Republicans have undergone a substantial change in the past 20-years or so.  They are no longer the quiet, considered people of the gray flannel suits.  

Ever since Republicans incorporated the southern strategy they have drawn upon what I call METH REPUBLICANS.

The behavioral symptoms of methamphetamine use include the following:

Psychological symptoms:

   Restlessness -- John -"FGS, ISIS is winning!"- McCain.
   Irritability -- Bill - "Obamacare is socialism" - O'Reilly
   Aggression -- Rush - "you're all sluts" - Limbaugh
   Confusion -- Tom - "what is Constitutional Decorum?" - Cotton
   Agitation -- Mitch - "Chicken Little was right" - McConnell
   Hallucinations -- Richard - "he's got WMD's" - Cheney
   Delusions -- Ted - "Canadians deserve a chance"- Cruz

I ask you, when you are confronted with a meth user, don't you stand a 50-50 chance of a fight?  They are delusional, energetic and paranoid.  It's the same with meth Republicans.

How can Ms. Stephenson be faulted?

Original Quill wrote:Well, apologies to Ms. Stephenson if she was putting up the good fight for a noble cause.  But that only redoubles my comments for the bad person...the fat woman faking it in the electric cart.

That corpulent cunnus is what this wave of conservatism has brought down on the civilized world.

So now only one of them is an uncivilised Christian extremist huh?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Well, apologies to Ms. Stephenson if she was putting up the good fight for a noble cause.  But that only redoubles my comments for the bad person...the fat woman faking it in the electric cart.

That corpulent cunnus is what this wave of conservatism has brought down on the civilized world.

So now only one of them is an uncivilised Christian extremist huh?

It's a good thing eddie corrected the title of the thread

What if had been the blonde woman who had challenged the other one for saying something about a black person?

Would she suddenly be praised for bravely getting off of her mobility scooter instead of being called a fat, lazy pig?

Vicar of Dibley wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

So now only one of them is an uncivilised Christian extremist huh?

It's a good thing eddie corrected the title of the thread now that one of the Christians isn't after all an extremist

We don't even know if either of them are Christians, extremist or otherwise.

Raggamuffin wrote:What if had been the blonde woman who had challenged the other one for saying something about a black person?

Would she suddenly be praised for bravely getting off of her mobility scooter instead of being called a fat, lazy pig?

shows it is dangerous to judge before knowing all the facts .

Raggamuffin wrote:What if had been the blonde woman who had challenged the other one for saying something about a black person?

Would she suddenly be praised for bravely getting off of her mobility scooter instead of being called a fat, lazy pig?

Nope...some sneaky and cant mind their own R/W'er would report her to the DSS

I wonder if she was on disability , imagine how would get out of that after this video

Raggamuffin wrote:What if had been the blonde woman who had challenged the other one for saying something about a black person?

Would she suddenly be praised for bravely getting off of her mobility scooter instead of being called a fat, lazy pig?

Good question.  No, actually I didn't like her (the blond woman), particularly because she seemed to be a phony...she looked to be the disingenuous one from the start.  She was playing a disabled, using the cart, yet she could stand right up and start the fight.

I was pleased to learn that the dark haired woman was opposing and remonstrating a racial slur.  Perhaps in hindsight the script I had in mind needed some amendment, but not much.  The lady I liked turned out to be a hero.  Good for her.  Also, my concern for the little boy was less if, at least, he was learning to stand up to racism.

No...I had been looking for a story like this for weeks, to be the example to say: Here's what it feels like to always interpret every event in terms of religion, and always call them 'extremists'.  Why can't they just be people?  Ben had come closest when he juxtaposed the Waco gang incident with the Baltimore demonstrations.  But I wanted to make the statement in the context of how we mistreat Muslims so unfairly.  Every story that has an Islamic connection, you will hear about Muslims, and how they are 'extremists'...in other words, the story can't be just about the people, it has to be about religion.  The basic point was, Why don't you let them just be people?

Perhaps you should have just written that post then Quill; it would've caused you much less distress and trouble lol

eddie wrote:Perhaps you should have just written that post then Quill; it would've caused you much less distress and trouble lol

I think I did. Just seven posts into the entire thread I laid it all out. Later in the same page I repeated my explanation. There was no misunderstanding...anywhere.

As far as stress and trouble? All of this drama has made my point far more spectacularly than if I had set off fireworks. I wanted to draw attention to a form of mendacity. The 'stress and trouble' has succeeded in doing that for me to a much greater degree.

So far from stress and trouble...