Fun With Christian Bands
The city of Cottonwood, Arizona, was treated to a brawl in the parking lot of the Walmart this weekend. The headline is that the folks involved are part of a Christian band.
The video then shows a police officer being put in a headlock and knocked to the ground.
The sound of Taser fire is heard. Police say pepper spray was deployed and that at least three shots were fired in an apparent struggle for an officer’s gun.
Several times on the video the group appears to surrender, but starts fighting again. The melee goes for several minutes until backup officers arrive and make arrests.
Police charged four members of the family with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.
Goodness gracious, we haven’t seen that much fun since the Palin family all got drunk.
Now here’s the best part. The name of the Christian band is Matthew 24 NOW. They even have a Facebook page.
For those of you who didn’t spend every summer in Vacation Bible School, Matthew 24 is Jesus warning the disciples of the end times. Matthew reports that Jesus says some bad crap is coming.
However, Jesus also says that nobody, not even him or the angels, knows when it is coming. Only God knows. So when you go around predicting the end times, gnashing of teeth, pestilence, and whatnot you’re messin’ with Jesus.
Which may be what the fighting was all about. I dunno. Stranger things have happened in the Walmart parking lot.
Thanks to Bernie for the heads up.
“They had performed on the streets of Boise, Idaho.”
and from there to a Walmart parking lot in East of Nowhere, AZ. AZ is a bad place to be looking for 3 hots and a cot by tussling with the Popos. Sheriff Joe provides a tent and a cot; he’s not much on 3 hots.
1It may not be the “end times” but it sure as heck is the craziest of times coming!!
2Shut and lock the front door, pop the popcorn and put your feet up … ’cause we’re in for a crazy ride!!
Hillary is in and Teddy Cruz wants to sell off the National Parks … Michelle Bachmann is spewing her idiocy by saying the ACA has killed off more folks then cancer has over the last 20 years or something like that!!
I think I’m going to close all the blinds, too … maybe the crazy won’t leak in!!
Old Testament believers, odd Christians.
3Didn’t the last brawl at a Walmart end up with a brawlee dead and the rest of the family in jail?
4It did seem that the police tactic of simply assuming people would immediately comply with their orders rather than trying to calm people down was not very effective. The time between “You’re not separating me from my kids” and the fight starting was very short. One wonders whether the “instant obedience or taser time” approach is something the police may want to re-think.
Especially in this day of “sovereign citizens”, who may need to have some reality seep into their skulls before they realize that they need to comply.
5Well hey…one outta three ain’t bad.There sure was a pestilence right there in Cottonwood, Az.
6I saw the photos. White folks, white cops. Change the color of those scuffling and there would probably be bodies strewn about. Lately, black folk haven’t been real lucky when they get into encounters with police.
7Armed christains playing music to say that…..
8I could be wrong it’s happened before but if your music is so bad that you have to fight off your audience with lethal weapons you should….. “sigh”
Wally in florida.
I was curious about the two older? guys trading punches at the back of the Suburban. Thank goodness neither was injured.
9Geographically challenged moochers missed the Bundy Ranch.
10@EPO – It’s the same brawl. The fight actually happened on March 21. It’s the VIDEO of that March 21 encounter that was released this weekend, to clarify what JJ wrote.
11Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Well, he got that right.
Matthew 24:34
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Not so accurate on that one, unless “this generation” is supposed to last 2000 years or so.
As for the fight, I watched about half of it, and I’m really glad I’m not a cop. What was all that for anyway?
12Gosh, that makes my Walmart look like a finishing school.
13OK, this is where I start shopping at my local Costco – – –
14which for some strange reason was built right next to the Walmart. Go figure! The parking lots are contiguous. I guess that after shopping at Costco you can sit in you car in their lot and watch all the hot stuff happening over in the Walmart lot.
I just realized that I have a boring life.
15Actually it sounds a lot like the last Christmas sales at Walmart. Only with fewer people injured.
16Hi,
Does anyone know the reason for assaulting a Walmart employee? Did someone make a “no homeless” crack or something?
I have to wonder if the woman hadn’t been wailing cries of “Jesus” whether the police would’ve been more draconian early on. Not that it stopped her band mates from attacking…
What an intensely uncomfortable scene.
17The Christian band is to music as the Republican party is to science.
18I lived in Cottonwood for a couple years, right on the river in the green belt. There was a monthly gathering in some parking lot or another with an imported “Christian” band, each of which had some sort of weird name for some sort of misrepresented Scripture or another. Otherwise they were just regular loud skater or otherwise rowdy type of band. Couldn’t understand the lyrics anyway. But it always brought the rowdy crowd out. Guess that particular “church” figgered it as a marketing ploy to the socially downtrodden.
19Guess that’s what’s bound to happen when a family of borderline personalities decides to make a Walmart parking lot their home indefinitely and use the store’s restrooms for their sanitation needs. This is a family that occupied a Habitat for Humanity home in Idaho for several years but wound up giving it back, which waves a red flag about how chronic and deep this family’s problems are. I believe in social safety nets, but it’s impossible to save some folks from a head-on crash with reality.
20James Carville describe Pennsylvania as Philadelphia and Pittsburg with Alabama in between the two. How do you suppose he might describe Arizona?
21@UmptyDump
22I read that as well that the Gaver family had lived in a Habitat home for about 10 years then gave it back. Wow! I have never heard of a Habitat family that eventually gave the house back. I suppose it could happen, but … damn.
Walmart should be renamed Brawlmart; it’s the Thunderdome for the 21st century.
23Maybe they found out from “other sources” that they possibly could make more “sympathy” money from a “GoFundMe” site than they can from actually working.
They now have the publicity, all they have to do is wait for the money to pour in…… or not.
Worth a try I guess.
@ Lynn, I also have a boring life…… thankfully. 🙂
24Actually Cheryl is the one who claimed a boring life. Though mine is boring too. I have 7 cats.
25Another reason not to shop at WalMart.
26Me and my misreading things. I read the beginning as “and there shall be feminists…”
27Note to Uncle Dave: Loved the Carville quote, but we who reside in and around Pittsburgh feel a bit slighted if you leave off our “h”. Not enough to start a brawl in the Walmart parking lot, mind you, just enough to mention we’re a ‘burgh, not just a ‘burg.
28Maryelle, I worked in a congressional campaign in Kansas in 2004, and was stationed in Pittsburg-without-an-h (pretty cool town, by the way. Home of the Pittsburg State Gorillas). They had the opposite problem–folks kept adding the h at the end. It worked for me because when the Kerry folks added the h, it p.o.’ed the Pittsburgers, who then worked for my lowly congressional campaign instead of the sexier presidential campaign.
29I agree with W.C. If those had been black Christians, there’d have been a call for the coroner because of mass casualties.
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