Man arrested for flinging child off 3rd floor balcony at the Mall of America

Is he a Datalounger?

Even for a Datalounger this is extreme behavior towards a child.

The dipshit Reddit detectives are at it again. When I read this article on reddit about an hour ago, a commenter was naming a completely different guy than the one arrested. Have they learned nothing from the Boston Marathon fiasco?

"Nobody was helping her ". Yikes, people are cold . I wonder if the guy is a schizo or if he Had some sort of dispute with the mother right before this happened .

Spare the rod, fling the child.

R2 Are we sure it was a child? Maybe it was a dwarf and he was practising for the dwarf throwing competition.

Children should be seen, not thrown off balconies.

Oh Dear!

Spare the rod and spoil the child, the Good Book says!

That sounds messy,

You’re both wrong. Mrs Ramsey would never create such a mess.

Fuck.

I hope there were no Data Loungers shopping there when it happened. Then they will post a screed about how their shopping trip was ruined because some Frau couldn't properly mind her child.

Awww you guys!! You beat me to it! I wanted to come in and say something that would piss the fraus off!!

[quote]Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda was arrested in the mall transit station after fleeing the scene of the child’s fall,

Don’t they mean the child’s punting?

"I just came here for an Auntie Anne's pretzel. The next thing I knew, I got hit by a falling child. What type of shopping mall is this?"

It's not polite to throw a toy.

DL,

Thanks for the second term!

I guess this guy took Mayor Vaughn’s wanting them “hung up by their Buster Browns” just a touch too literal.

Toss them when they’re past their “sell by” dates.

I fail to see the problem.

You mean their best before dates, B. Singer @ R20?

Why didn't he took Frau off to help her child?

Nor spelling.

R23 wtf?

R25 it's the humor of "oppressed" men. You wouldn't understand.

He's kind of cute, no?

He has gay face

You're right. He does.

Maybe he was jealous he couldn't give birth.

Perhaps the gentleman was innocent. Was there a note?

This is horrible. I hope this child is ok.

Not Buster Browns, R19 but PF Flyers!

Well if he is, r32, I hope he learned his lesson and keeps his trap shut from now on.

Here on the Tundra a child sacrifice every now and then, especially after the winter we've had, is expected. Usually done at the back of the woodlot, not at our sacred Mall of Malls! This fellow is an imbecile.

Perfect makeup on the tundra.

Dewey defeats.

these are sick comments

He doesn't have gay face. He's straight.

We all know that 999999 times out of 1000000 the straight guys are doing the " murderin' ".

Then leave, R38.

If it makes you feel any better, R38, I posted a few awful jokes but I did so because the idea of this happening is so horrific, it becomes one of those things we have to laugh at, from a dark place, because it's so horrible.

Won't somebody PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ think about the children!!

BUMP

^^^ Hey, that's all that the kid suffered!

What was on the child-flinger's iPod?

"Baby,. Come Back" -- Player

Does he belong to a foreign faction, by any chance?

What was on the child's iPod?

Free Falling

I fall to pieces

80% of men should be locked up permanently.

I Threw It All Away -- Bob Dylan

Push Push - Herbie Mann

Wonder how many other kids this MONSTER has.

[quote]80% of men should be locked up permanently.

And 100% of them are straight.

child F a l l I n g Like mi trs

I say 2 My self How can I mk This About Metoo

More poem 2 cum

Why are straight men so violent?

R38 just come back on Election Night 2020. You'll have a good laugh then.

R38, new here?

[quote]What was on the child's iPod?

I Believe I Can Fly

The little brat had it coming.

R38 consider them in the context of this forum. You have threads where men are voicing their support for males having access to female spaces and also mutilating the genitals of minors.

More bounce to the ounce -Zapp and roger

Giving "spring fling" a new meaning.

On the same day, in a town about forty miles north of the MOA, a straight white guy deliberately set his house on fire in an attempt to kill all four of his kids. He succeeded in killing two of them.

He had been banned from the MOA in the past.

I need to get out of Minnesota. I swear I have the worst luck here and it's becoming gross.

At least it's warm in Florida.

Aranda lives in the Bloomington area and has a series of arrests and convictions related to the mall. He had been banned from Mall of America in the past and was convicted of misdemeanors in two incidents there in 2015, court records show. Aranda was charged in July 2015 with causing damage inside stores after he threw items off the upper level of the mall to the lower level, court records obtained by CNN affiliate WCCO show.

He was accused three months later of throwing glasses of ice water and tea at a woman in a restaurant at the mall after she refused to buy him food, the records show. In that incident, he got into a physical scuffle with the manager of the restaurant, sending panicked diners fleeing, according to court records that also note Aranda at that point had been banned from Mall of America property through early July 2016. In August 2015, witnesses saw Aranda smashing computers on the floor of a Minneapolis library, causing about $5,000 in damage, according to a 2015 complaint. Police were called and arrested him without incident after finding him at a bus stop across the street. Aranda in that case told authorities he got "angry after he read something on the Facebook" and so smashed five computers, screens and keyboards, court records show, citing a recorded statement. "He said he has some anger issues and told the officer that it does not happen all the time," the complaint states.

Why was the mother screaming for everyone to pray for her crotch dropping? Bitch, call fucking 911 and get down to the first floor where your kid is!

He has SOME anger issues?

Not funny. Not edgy. Just lame.

We exist only to please your sensibility, r69. That's why we come here.

Daddy, do you realize thousands of Americans were killed last year by gun violence

Would it make you feel better if they were pushed off of third floor balconies at a mall in Bloomington, MN?

Well if the kid landed feet first he might just be lame.

Judges' awards: 9.0, 9.5, 8.5, 9.0, and a 5.0 from the Russian judge.

Libs defending the animal because he is black.

Can we PLEASE bring back asylums for the criminally insane? Please? There are really dangerous people out there. This animal should have been locked away a long time ago. Jesus Christ.

Blacks have a much higher proclivity for violence. Low impulse control

This was a simple misunderstanding, he was only violently shaking the child when it slipped from his painful grip and flew over the rail.

Thanks for that, r66. Another instance of catch-and-release, like that crazy cunt Chanel Lewis who savagely murdered a jogger who was minding her own business.

And the bleeding hearts make excuses for them.

Maybe she meant it in the sense of "Pray for Rosemary's Baby."

I have a feeling this was not the carousel ride the kid had in mind.

What's kind of scary is that if the Mall of America didn't have its own dedicated police department right there on the premises, this guy might not have been caught. The remaining malls in my area use rent-a-cops whose job it is basically to call in the city police department if anything serious happens. Sometimes cop cars are stationed at malls at critical times (after school, weekends) but not 10:00 .a.m., the time this occurred.

Humidity is rising! (Rising!)

Barometer's getting low! (Low!)

According to all sources

The mall's the place to go!

'Cause tonight for the first time! (First time!)

Just about half-past ten! (Half-past ten!)

For the FIRST! TIME! IN HISTORY!

IT'S GONNA RAIN CHILDREN!

The little boy's name is Landen and it seems like he's white. All of the GoFundMe fundraisers (who are friends of the family) are white, too.

This black bastard is going to get 20 to life.

Oh yeah, it's a little white kid.

[quote]The little boy's name is Landen

Is his last name Inthefoodcourt?

W&W for R85.

Mall of Somalia

[quote]“She didn’t know what to do. Nobody was helping her,” she added.

There was a sale.

I've never been to mall of America . Is it really all that?

Sir, can you fix-iddet my cheeseburger?

FUCK YOU KID!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- Splat!

R88 Nobody helps anyone anymore. They just grab camera phones. In Quincy, MA, earlier this week, a man and his pregnant girlfriend were being beaten in the street and a bystander stopped to.... film it, supposedly to provide "evidence ". You would think they would first call police but I guess not.

This kind of thing will be common until people who can't function in the normal workday world have an alternative other than starvation or being put in jail

We'll never forget Landen's last words.

"Excuse me, sir, what's the fastest way downstairs?"

So the first thing this mother thinks to scream after seeing her child flung from a balcony is "Everyone pray, everyone pray!" ????????

That's offensive to any non believers that were in the mall within earshot.

Fuck her.

I would tell the mother -"I am praying.....that you're next"

R85!!!!!!!!!!

Pissed on myself.

[quote]“She didn’t know what to do. Nobody was helping her,” she added.

Perhaps because they were busy helping, oh, I don’t know...HIM?! Ya know, the child who just got passed like a Brett Favre football?!

I’m sorry they didn’t have time to stop and stroke your ego.

They are coming for our kids!

[quote] That's offensive to any non believers that were in the mall within earshot.

How dare she not think of their sensibilities first! Talk about selfish!

The mall of malls is a sacred institution on the tundra. This cuts our souls to ribbons.

I'm seeing some sources saying the kid died and others saying he's still obtaining treatment. Odd.

“So the first thing this mother thinks to scream after seeing her child flung from a balcony is "Everyone pray, everyone pray!" ????????

That's offensive to any non believers that were in the mall within earshot.“

A violent unstable man threw a little boy from a third floor balcony and THIS offends you?

Aranda's ears are wrong - low set and teeny tiny. He probably belonged in a care home for the mentally unwell, but I guess we don't have those anymore.

Bless your heart, r102.

Ronnie Reagan turned the mentally ill out onto the streets years ago...This is GOP policy at work, people!

I knew it was a white child . Anger issues indeed. Anger issues against white skin. Mentally ill and allowed to run amuck.

[quote]Mentally ill and allowed to run amuck.

He ran what, now?

A mudpie stand, R107.

So if you have “anger issues” about computers or the internet or whatnot, the thing to do is fling a little kid? What did he have to do with whatever he was mad about? He existed?

Out of control straight guy, R109?

Maybe the kid asked him if he had an apple and the dude misunderstood?

You’re really trying to make sense of a lunatic throwing a kid over a railing in a mall, as though whatever the reason was in his mind, it would justify it?

R105 yet people today would say that institutionalization violates their rights

R85, I wish I could give you more than one W&W. Hilarious. Thank you.

R106, Oh, Dear!

[quote]Ronnie Reagan turned the mentally ill out onto the streets years ago...This is GOP policy at work, people!

So why did the ACLU brag on their website about closing down all the mental hospitals as recently as a couple of years ago last time I checked it?

Ok its amok bitches! Lol !

R113 : Sometimes it happens for me.

Upthread poster ...the mall is definitely not all that unless you are into the amusement park stuff. Funny true story..I was there while returning to my college reunion and went to see it. I was in the Coach store and asked the clerk about a bag behind the counter in a display case. I said “will it hold an iPad?” And she thought I said nine mill as in hold a nine millimeter revolver! Guess she had foresight to what was coming in the Mall!

Um, who cares? It's terrible and all, but is it really national news worthy?

And why the gofundme?

So it's only news worthy when a black kid dies at the hands of a white guy? Never when the races are the other way around? How many white kids have you thrown off balconies, R118?

You are fucking idiot, R118. Go crawl back into the hole you came out of.

Because this isn't about race, R119. It's about a violent man with a criminal record and untreated mental health issues.

R121 So what is newsworthy to you, R121? Do tell us.

If I frequented that mall, I'd like sure as hell want to be made aware that some lunatic was running around throwing three year olds off balconies so I could keep my wits about me and make sure I'm not the lunatic's next victim.

I guess the news should be like The Advocate - all Trump, all tranny, all drag. Nothing else dare intrude on what's "important".

I feel for the kid, but if you're reading here, do not donate to the GFM, thee guy who organized it is a huge Trump supporting Rethug.

Who cares, R123?

Do you check someone's voting record before you pull over to pull someone out of a burning car too?

No, R124, but I wouldn't donate to a GFM organized by a Trumper when there is no evidence that he even knows the family and the last name of the victim hasn't been released. Sketchy shit.

My mother's Second husband was a very unstable bipolar man. He was lovely till his mood stabilizer stopped working. My mom tried despetately to get him committed, but in the state the were in, it took two doctors to commit him longer than the 72 hour hold, and mu step-father was canny enough to scream and holler that he would sue the hospital and any doctor who tried to commit him. So theu always let him go. After a long string of mania that involved buying and wrecking five different vehicles, he eventually died of a self- induced overdose. It was terribly sad.

R125 Admit it. You never donate and you never help. Anyone. Keep hating, bigot.

No, R127, the Trump supporter organizing the GFM is the bigot.

[quote]Have they learned nothing from the Boston Marathon fiasco?

Learned? The internet is a seething blind monster, foaming at the mouth. You want to try to teach THAT? Be my guest.

I hope the kid is ok

[quote] Why was the mother screaming for everyone to pray for her crotch dropping?

Because she's a fundie, R67.

Mall of America is a fucking dump. There is nothing to see there.

other than the splat marks

I don’t understand the concept of praying. This purportedly omnipresent, omnipotent being that controls everything will help with a problem that it allowed to happen in the first place? Madness.

It's the sjw's that closed all the mental hospitals. They didn't want people to be stigmatized.

R135 While the "both sides " excuse is used too often nowadays, I think blame lies on both the right and the left over the decline of institutionalization of the severely mentally ill. The far left pushed the nonsense that hospitalizing them was inherently inhumane while the far right wanted the hospitals closed as a cost saving measure, indifferent to the human consequences.

Actually, ignoramus at r135, it was Ronald Reagan who closed all the mental hospitals, and I’d hardly call him an SJW.

[quote]It's the sjw's that closed all the mental hospitals. They didn't want people to be stigmatized.

What a complete lie. Why do you make up stuff you know isn’t true?

R115, I like you. You have a sense of humor and don’t take it seriously. I love people like that.

[quote]will help with a problem that it allowed to happen in the first place?

We don’t know he allowed it to happen. He could’ve been on the shitter reading his morning paper, or caught up at Datalounge and missed it.

Just the fact anyone would bother. White, Black & everyone else know blacks make the shittiest parents. I guess so many hits on this thread because of the weekend here on DL.

When you stop & think that if black people decided to throw their all into their children like whites & asians then they'd achieve some sort of status.

Treating children & animals like shit only sets your place in the gutter.

Will this fact ever be realized?

Doesn't seem to be on the horizon. Triste.

R127, don't bother..the weekends here are dominated by poor people with no lives or money whatsoever. We know this

DeShawn!😂!

R121, it is about race. Blacks are to be expected of this behavior, especially by other blacks. They know the deal. This is why none of their child endangerment stories hold public attention.

Does anyone really care about a sick, dangerous black man? No. Expected. Same crime committed by a Caucasian & you're looking at hits out the yin yang. Because no one cares less about black people than black people themselves. They KNOW the deal.

This needs to be prosecuted as a hate crime. Black-on-white violence, directed at a child.

HOW'S THE KID DOING?

Reagan closed the hospitals in response to an ACLU lawsuit. Unintended consequences.

They said last night on the news that the child was alive, and the family asked for privacy at this time. The guy is being charged with attempted murder. He had been banned but the order against trespassing had expired. In the first incident years ago, he had thrown something over the side of the balcony - not a person, but some product - can't remember what it was. In the second incident that got him banned, he had thrown a glass at an employee.

This is the type of criminal that needs to be locked up forever. There’s no way he could ever be trusted in society.

I hope the shoppers weren’t too terribly inconvenienced.

I would imagine the poor kid has grave injuries.

Not only are our prices dropping, our kids are too!

So many horrible and disgusting replies. This is why i keep coming back to DL

Anyone give a fu k?

R145 exactly, if this were reversed it would be the FIRST thing written or said by the media, TRUMP SUPPORTING WHITE NAZI RACIST ATTACKS INNOCENT BLACK CHILD

You all know it's true

This is about mental illness, not race. The guy needs to be locked up, obviously, but charging him with a hate crime would not be appropriate unless there’s evidence he did this because the kid was white.

If the child lives, he will likely need many surgeries and rehab. The medical bills will be outrageous, as they always are in this dump of a country. Hence, the GoFundMe.

God, you can be arrested for just about anything these days.

If they have a dwarf toss at that mall, they are so getting sued.

Our prices are low, our railings even lower!

R156 oh bullshit, EVERYTIME. a white person looks at a black person the wrong way it's racist or racially motivated by "racist whites"

Liberals started this shit and when you call them out on it they change their tune, "oh he's just mentally I'll"...

By the way, if there's so many evil Nazi white supremacists in America as the media would have you believe, how come they're not flinging innocent black children off balconies like crazy?

You would think it would be an epidemic

[quote][R145] exactly, if this were reversed it would be the FIRST thing written or said by the media, TRUMP SUPPORTING WHITE NAZI RACIST ATTACKS INNOCENT BLACK CHILD

If this were reversed that would actually be true though.

R161 has had ENUFF with the second class status of white people in America and she’s putting her feet down!!!

R163 this has to do with right and wrong, basic common decency and respect.

And notice how you disregard my post by taking it to another place that has no relevance to this incident

Has any relationship been established between the kid's mother and the guy who was arrested?

^^Witness, with an empty papoose.

Is your child at risk for being thrown off a third story ledge by a lunatic?

C’mon down to Len’s Leads and Leashes and check out our selection of tethers for your child.

(Ask for Rufus.)

R165 They were complete strangers

R168

Thank you.

[quote] [R156] oh bullshit, EVERYTIME. a white person looks at a black person the wrong way it's racist or racially motivated by "racist whites.

Even assuming that’s true, calling someone a racist is not the same as charging them with a hate crime, which happens pretty rarely.

[quote] By the way, if there's so many evil Nazi white supremacists in America as the media would have you believe, how come they're not flinging innocent black children off balconies like crazy?

For the exact reason that such behavior is typically motivated by insanity, not race. With some obvious exceptions, such as Dylan Roof, most white supremacists aren’t looking to go to prison for murder.

[quote] You would think it would be an epidemic.

Only if you were an idiot.

So f this kid d survives does that mean he's a witch?

[quote] If the child lives, he will likely need many surgeries and rehab. The medical bills will be outrageous, as they always are in this dump of a country. Hence, the GoFundMe.

True, R157, but seeing how the parents (and their friend who set up the GoFundMe) are fundies and Trumpsters, they should be on the hook to pay every penny themselves. It's what they voted for, after all. The poor child is innocent though, and I hope he makes a full recovery, but face it, his parents are asses who don't give a shit about little brown kids, gay rights, or really anyone but themselves. So though no parent should have to suffer as they surely are, they should be footing the bill on this one.

R161: “By the way, if there's so many evil Nazi white supremacists in America as the media would have you believe, how come they're not flinging innocent black children off balconies like crazy?

You would think it would be an epidemic”

There is an epidemic of MICROAGGRESSION. It’s literal violence. And of course, some people were slaves 200 years ago, so.

Is it true they have a bungee kiosk on the third floor?

R172 you're a rea disgusting pice of shit

That is all

Why, R175? Those people cast a vote to take away health care. Now they're in need. They got what they wanted, so pay up. Funny how that works.

Every time I see the word “flinging”, I expect to see the word “poo” before or after it.

Puerile, I know.

R176 and how is that the CHILD'S fault? Isn't that what you libs claim when people come over here ILLEGALLY and innocent children were detained and had to pay for what their parents did?

Extreme liberals have really gone off the dead end, they claim to love illegal immigrants and their children but at the same time have no problems trying to pass laws that a wan can legally abort a baby at 9 months.

You can't make this shit up

Some posters on this thread might also lead to that expectation r178.

Sorry, I meant to address r177. R178 is an example though.

R178, I never said it was. Reread my post at R172 and R176 please. And no "extreme" liberal is trying to pass a law to legalize abortion at 9 months. Give your head a shake. You sound like a Trump supporter yourself, by the way.

The Mall is getting sued you better believe that and it will most likely be a 7 figure out if court settlement. The guy was banned once from the mall but allowed him back in. There’s probably a lawyer on the scene as we speak.

R182, I’d award those parents a huge settlement. I’ll bet every store manager in that mall knows who that crazy asshole is and saw him and warned each other to keep an eye out. Malls are like a small town and word gets out. I bet the employees have seen some shit and they were praying he wouldn’t come in to their store and act up. Mall security is a joke.

A mall that big should have a mini-precinct on site.

Mainstream media is largely ignoring this story... doesn’t fit the narrative.

Perhaps the idiotic asshole R176 can fling a black kid over the railing to generate some interest.

Take your racism elsewhere, R186.

R185, there are some lovey discussions on Reddit. And local NYC news covered it. It’ll disappear, but it did get mentioned.

Plus, at least for right now, what’s to report? The child’s health status is the same, the guy is in custody. Other than when he appears for court, probably won’t hear too much more.

Let’s pay him Reparations!

N.....

There was a small boy named Tripp Halstead who was in a sort of paralyzed vegetative state (couldn't do anything except lay there, blink, and occasionally smile, nobody even really knew if he processed what went on around him) after a large tree branch broke off and landed on his head. He recently passed away from a respiratory infection of some sort, five years after the accident.

I'm pretty sure that falling from a great height and landing on your head would generate even more damage than a tree branch, so if this kid survives he'll probably be a vegetable as well.

I'm as cynical and cold-hearted as the next bitch on DL, but damn, imagine just minding your own business shopping with your kid and some rando stranger goes and does that.

And frankly the parents do deserve a large settlement from the mall, especially now that it's come out that they had a history of trouble with the perp.

Police should have just executed this piece of shit and done the taxpayers a favor.

The person here stating that this is all the parents fault for voting trump is a complete troll trying to spread division and make it like all "libs" think like this. These freaks are real and are set up in various countries to cause division.

That is not necessarily something to be praised. And I am not a judgmental person.

Was Aranda transitioning?

Incel rage

[quote]Aranda said he had been coming to the mall for several years and had made efforts to talk to women in the mall, but had been rejected. He said that rejection caused him to lash out and be aggressive.

What a sick fuck. I am at that mall all the time. Not so much anymore though. I don't like it anyway.

I hope the kid pulls through and makes a full recovery, but I'm concerned about what his life will be like. If he will suffer, than it would be better if he passed now. I hope, hope, hope he makes a full recovery or at least mentally will be ok. Physical disability is one thing, brain impairment is something else entirely.

So, women "rejected" him and now a little boy is in the hospital.

Sick fuck went to the mall with the purpose of killing someone.

A crazy man acts crazy...is this something new?

What person said that, R194?

This piece of shit will be killed quickly in prison.

R203, see R172 et al.

I read that, R205, but they didn't say it was the parents fault though.

R197 shit, get ready for this crime to be politicized by foaming-at-the-mouth SJW types yammering about "male entitlement" and "toxic masculinity."

Why must some of these trolls who get booted from every site, like this animal got booted from the mall, come on here and defend every black person and demonize whites? They think they're raising black people up it seems. All they're doing is making every demographic increase their leeriness of blacks with this incessant trolling. Absolutely no self control. Like listening to the rantings of a 12 year old with a chip on its shoulder.

So funny to read comments like "This is some MAGA shit for sure, the kid must be black" and see the same people disappear when it was a black man throwing a white kid.

R209, where were those comments posted? Here?

Social media and Lipstick Alley.

TY R211 for that. Well LSA is a given. Are the comments still up over there?

It's like a national sport for some of these people. Desperate to demonize & vilify whites. Asians don't get a pass as well. This racial preoccupation is such a time waster. Go start an online business. Go put your internet connection to good use.

It always backfires & leaves egg on their faces but they never learn. This is preferable to admitting the reality that "white people" mean them no harm so much in fact that they avoid any confrontation with blacks generally. Same thing for asians. Blacks just aren't on their radar. They may actively avoid blacks but that's usually how it is. They're not gunning for blacks. They're too busy ripping each other apart to even notice blacks. Much less build a personal resentment towards blacks. That's the truth, the hurt these types are hiding from. Thank Jussus Smollet. Talk about egg on the face.

Tawana Brawley meant nothing?

Apparently the boy has no spinal or brain damage. Miraculous.

The odd thing about this case is that the perp looks like a teddy bear you'd want to snuggle. His eyes aren't jacked in any way. Guess this helped him fly under the radar.