Posted on 12/27/2013 3:02:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hundreds of teenagers wreaked havoc in a Brooklyn mall as part of violent flash mob the day after Christmas, causing the mall to close down, the New York Post reported.
Over 400 teenagers bombarded Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., mall vendors said. The teenagers stole merchandise, assaulted security guards, and broke candy jars. A group of teenage girls were caught on camera fighting and shouting while security guards tried to break them up.
The teenagers were able to plan the event using social media, promising to raid the mail, or put it on "tilt," Twitter and Facebook posts said, according to the Post.
One teenager was rumored to have a gun, and a game of "knockout" also took place on the mall's upper level. Store-owners at Macy's, Mac and Victoria's Secret were rushing to close their businesses.
"I've been here seven years and I have never seen anything like this before- I'm so scared. I know they will come back," Abu Tabel, a clerk at Candy Plaza 2, told the Post. "I was begging them to stop. There were a lot of kids hundreds of kids...[Security] would chase them out one door and they would come back in another door."
Other fights broke out in front of Best Buy and McDonalds, the Post reported. The mall was closed down around 7 p.m. for nearly an hour.
"You know they were playing the knockout game yesterday," Shante, a perfume merchant, told the Post.
In the game, someone tries to knock another person out with one blow.
"People were getting really scared," Shante told the Post. "A tall white guy with a grey bubble coat was wearing a ski mask and a skull cap and he had his hand under his coat like he was holding a gun."
Police told the Post it's unclear why the flash mob broke out, but a false rumor spread on social media that rapper Fabolous was performing at the mall.
"So kings plaza had a riot smh some people are so pathetic all I wanted to do was change my sweats," @_King_S tweeted.
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Wonder why this never happens in Texas /sarc
Yeah especially with rock salt!
Do these low intelligence “yutes”, with IQs in the 80s & 90s at best and next to no self-control, have absolutely no idea of how pathetic and worthless they appear to we “outsiders”?
In a few more years I expect these primitive tribes to become cannibals again. Civilization has been wasted on them.
Oh... Oh...
I know the answer!!
It's because there's more...
Cops!!
Right?
As long as they only prey on each other.
(/SARCASM)
But,But,this can’t be true! That Bozo Chris Hayes from msnbc said just a few days ago the knockout games don’t happen.
None. Most of them will live a perpetual adolescence -- with taxpayers on the hook for their food, medicine, cell phone, housing and cable/satellite -- just like so many of their own parents are doing. And GRANDparents.
You may as well ask a fish what it's like to breathe air, the concept of self-reliance is that foreign to them.
That veneer of civilization is getting so thin, you can almost see through it.
This is worrisome on several levels.
For such a huge mob to show up with a minimum of preplanning could mean a whole lot more of this stuff with ever more sophistication and bigger crowds. Quite frankly, it’s going to be nearly impossible to stop short of violent methods. Hundreds of teens showing up on a couple hours’ notice is going to be more than a handful of mall cops are going to be able to handle.
The size of the crowd may also indicate the appeal of flash mobs may be spreading. Mobs are funny things, in that they can take on lives of their own and draw in people that otherwise would be part of the nonsense they cause. If so, things are likely to get ugly sooner than later as more and more teens start showing up for these things just to be where the “fun” is.
Either way, it’s going to get ugly when some shop owner or mall visitor gets fed up with being victimized.
Kenya's Westgate Mall massacre.
They only happen when some white kid thinks that because all those (non-existent) assaults by (unnamed race) youths go unreported and unpunished, he can get away with it too...
Mall security is almost never armed.
When that happens it will make the news as a white gun owner going postal on a mall full of sweet innocent teens.
Maybe this white guy was acting like he was armed so the mob would leave him alone as he was trying to get the hell outta there?
Invest in machine guns that shoot rubber bullets!
Obama and Holder have encouraged this by the climate of bias and violence they have fostered, and when some White or Asian shop owner fights back the media will report it as a hate crime and the Feds will come down on the non-minority victims.
I'm not even kidding about this.
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