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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:05 AM Mar 2021

Man arrested after walking into Atlanta grocery store with 6 guns, body armor

ATLANTA, Georgia — A man armed with six weapons and and also body armor walked into a grocery store Wednesday, an unsettling incident just two days after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store.

The manager of a Publix store called police at 1:30 p.m. after the man walked in carrying a long rifle and went straight to a restroom, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. When the man exited the restroom, he was quickly taken into custody, police tell the Journal-Constitution.

Rico Marley, 22, was charged with reckless conduct after the incident, NBC News reports. It’s unclear what his motive was and he is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

Police reportedly found six weapons on Marley, including two long rifles and four handguns.

Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2021/03/man-arrested-after-walking-into-atlanta-grocery-store-with-6-guns-body-armor.html

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Man arrested after walking into Atlanta grocery store with 6 guns, body armor (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
A) White guy, no doubt. B) Probably interpreted a Q dribble as saying that Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #1
You should check your bias Livluvgrow Mar 2021 #2
You should check the odds. That's very unusual. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #4
Seriously Livluvgrow Mar 2021 #5
Really? "Seems to be not that unusual"? Now who should check their bias? Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #6
Ah actually Livluvgrow Mar 2021 #8
And you are saying that it is not that unusual that the armed man, taken alive, is not white. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #9
Move the goal post much Livluvgrow Mar 2021 #10
. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #11
+1 MisterNiceKitty Mar 2021 #12
You can't just do that in the Deep South? Omnipresent Mar 2021 #3
Did this person intend to defend himself while shopping? ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #7
At least this guy didn't start shooting the minute he walked in. But, folks have been saying Hoyt Mar 2021 #13

Scrivener7

(52,745 posts)
1. A) White guy, no doubt. B) Probably interpreted a Q dribble as saying that
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:26 AM
Mar 2021

avocados and bananas are Antifa. Take back our produce aisle!!!

(PS: I changed my name, y'all! I used to be Squinch.)

Livluvgrow

(379 posts)
5. Seriously
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:38 AM
Mar 2021

Seems not to be that unusual. The Boulder shooter wasn't white either. You know who was white though all 10 of his victims.

Livluvgrow

(379 posts)
8. Ah actually
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:46 AM
Mar 2021

you made an assumption. You were wrong. You were given another example of a non white mass shooter. Yet I am supposed to check my bias. Right. You make the assumption and where wrong. That is the very definition of showing bias.

Scrivener7

(52,745 posts)
9. And you are saying that it is not that unusual that the armed man, taken alive, is not white.
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:50 AM
Mar 2021

It most certainly IS unusual for a non-white heavily armed man to be taken alive.

Have a lovely day.

Livluvgrow

(379 posts)
10. Move the goal post much
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:53 AM
Mar 2021

This was never about anything I said. You made the claim and got called out on your bias. Perhaps this could be a moment of reflection for you.

Omnipresent

(6,342 posts)
3. You can't just do that in the Deep South?
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:30 AM
Mar 2021

I’m surprised that the police didn’t just say, “Boys will be boys!”

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,058 posts)
7. Did this person intend to defend himself while shopping?
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 07:40 AM
Mar 2021

And with that many weapons that had to cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars each to boot?

Does not make sense.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
13. At least this guy didn't start shooting the minute he walked in. But, folks have been saying
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:31 AM
Mar 2021

that as soon as Black people start the gun-humpery, something will be done. Maybe this is the start of something good for society.

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