Most of the mall fight videos I see are black on black; they go to the mall for fight club. Or maybe the local Chuck E Cheese closed. But they don’t have to attack the white shoppers to drive them away. Just living the thug life out in the open will do it.
This is the death of the mall as we know it. The large closed air mall will die because of the violence and there is an easy alternative of shopping on line. Individual stores not associated with malls will survive because they can control their clientele better, particularly a big box like Lowe’s, where they can afford security to run off the “teens” before they start congregating. Teens won’t be taking the bus to Lowe’s; tools sound like work, and work is for suckas.
Strip malls seem to be doing well. They are not enclosed and are a less convenient place to hang out, particularly if the weather is cold, hot or rainy. They also don’t have food courts with lots of tables and chairs, i.e., no convenient area to congregate. I did a fair amount of Christmas shopping at a strip mall which has many stores I like.