Chicopee Police Department arrested 21-year-old Malcolm Wilson of Springfield and a 17-year-old juvenile after they allegedly broke into the Walmart in Chicopee to steal items from the store.
The incident took place at approximately 12:20 a.m. on Saturday when it was reported that 12 individuals had broken into the Walmart store at 591 Memorial Dr., Chicopee.
Chicopee Police responded and found only four individuals in the parking lot that police said tried to leave even after officers asked them to stop.
According to witness statements and video, two of the four at the location had been involved in the incident and charged with breaking and entering and larceny.
Both were transported to the Chicopee Police Department and processed. Wilson was transported to the Women’s Correctional Facility because Hampden County Correctional Facility is currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hours before the break-in, MassLive has interviewed Wilson at the protest in solidarity with George Floyd of Minneapolis and against police brutality outside the Springfield Police Department Headquarters.
Malcolm Wilson has family in the Springfield police and can see the police perspective but feels what was done to George Floyd was unacceptable. (Douglas Hook / MassLive)
More than a dozen Massachusetts State Police and Holyoke Police vehicles were stationed at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside Friday evening as a preventative measure, police said, following a series of posts on social media discussing looting the location.
“Oh cause I thought the Target in Holyoke Mall at Ingleside said something," Salvador Perez posted on his personal Facebook page alongside a GIF of a man running with his hands full of electronic equipment. The mall was tagged in the post and it was shared widely by others on Facebook.
“8:30 TONIGHT! HOLYOKE MALL! BRING YA LOOTING SHOES AND BAG! We gon get ours today,” another Facebook post read.
Speaking with MassLive, Perez said his initial post was in reaction to the protests in Minnesota and frustration with police brutality.
Massachusetts State and Holyoke Police stationed outside the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside on Friday, May 29, 2020.
In the four-day period between Floyd’s death and charges being brought against one of the officers involved, a series of protests were held in Minneapolis. Protests at the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct - where the four officers involved in Floyd’s death were stationed before their firing - turned violent Wednesday evening. The Target store location across the street from the precinct was damaged and items were taken from the store.
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