Large crowd refuses to leave Walmart after closing, Charlotte NC
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As discussed during the dispatch call, police responded to Walmart Galleria in Charlotte after hundreds of people refused to leave following the store’s closing time. Officers were requested for crowd control, and most individuals were eventually cleared from the premises.
Audio|Heard on: Mecklenburg NC Law Dispatch Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
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Transcript:
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Seventeen eleven twenty-two, can you respond to Walmart Galleria, near Independence and Galleria Boulevard?
00:06
They're requesting officers come by for crowd control; they closed at eighteen hundred hours.
00:12
Complaint is (name withheld), and there's about 300 to 400 people still inside the store.
00:17
Was entered at seventeen forty-three.
00:19
I'll try to call back and see how many people there are, but any additional units clear and start that way.
00:24
Thirty-seven, you can have me.
00:29
Eleven thirty-eight, I'll add you as well until he advises further.
00:34
Seventeen 1160, we're signing in.
00:35
Independence units referenced the crowd at Walmart.
00:41
They said they got about everybody out.
00:43
He has twenty-two.
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Location mentioned:
Galleria Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28270
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