Gwinnett County Police said a juvenile thought it would be funny to spread a false rumor of a planned protest at the Mall of Georgia, especially if it led to chaos, but those actions ended up bringing officers to his doorstep instead.
The issue started when a post showed up on Facebook claiming a protest would take place at the mall on Saturday over alleged changes to mall policies concerning hours of operation and teen supervision. Investigators tracked the posts back to the juvenile, who police said does not live in Gwinnett County and had no plans to go to the mall and participate in any protest that happened there this weekend.
The juvenile then posted an announcement that the protest had been cancelled as investigators zeroed in on him…