Footage from Anytown, America, shows an unruly child destroying a neighborhood Walmart, as horrified customers watched helplessly, with some shoppers defending her actions.
Wild video shot by a customer shows a young black girl kicking displays and grabbing products from food shelves before flinging them onto the floor.
“Where is her mother — or whoever she’s with?” one woman asks.
Some people shouldn’t have children! pic.twitter.com/CfN14t2pou
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 2, 2024
A couple of customers are seen attempting to subdue the girl near the deli, before she escapes and resumes causing havoc.
A female shopper is heard discouraging people from attempting to detain the petulant child, telling them, “You don’t know what she’s going through!”
“Don’t touch her, don’t yell at her, don’t yell at her, don’t touch her,” the person also instructs workers and fellow customers, adding not to film the girl, with another person allegedly uttering, “She could be the next president.”
The girl’s reign of terror was quickly brought to an end as she began smashing glass bottles of sparkling grape juice, with one still frame showing a man grabbed her in apparent efforts to make her leave the store.
It’s unclear where or when the video took place, where the girls’ parents were, or whether she was held accountable for her actions.
Social media users roundly condemned the girl, onlookers and her missing parents for failing to keep her in check:
Why aren't they stopping that little brat?
— Darla Shine 👑 (@DarlaShine) December 2, 2024
"you don't know what she's going through"
— Hugh Hopner (@richiehedd) December 2, 2024
this is not justification to destroy stuff in a store.
The parent should pay for every item she damaged and then be banned for life.
— 🦥 Slothie McSlothface 🇺🇸🍑 (@lcat0919) December 2, 2024
make spanking kids common again
— Lorenzo Cunial (@thelcunial) December 2, 2024
"Don't do that to a little girl". 🙄
— The Nuance Express (@NuanceExpress) December 2, 2024
How about the little girl not do that to the store?
I know it's Walmart but still.
The worst person in this video, besides of course the parent, is the white chick following her around saying "don't touch her"
— Jimmy™ (@jimomics) December 2, 2024
IDGAF what she is going through, a responsible adult would have restrained this child before she caused any more damages or possible hurt herself or others.
— Rebecca R 🇺🇸 (@BeccabooNC2) December 2, 2024
When I was a kid someone ELSE's parent would have whooped that kid's ass loooong before then and set her straight. That is the result of a lack of parenting. Period.
— Chris Grigsby (@GrumpyGrigs) December 2, 2024
Some kids never got their a** beat and it shows.
— Suz (@Suzmgee) December 2, 2024
The shoppers’ permissive attitudes towards the girl’s destructive behavior is reminiscent of former Democrat Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who in 2015 explained she’d given rioting mobs “space” to destroy the city as a way of de-escalating the situation.