Posted on 05/15/2022 4:35:16 PM PDT by simpson96
BLAINE, Minn. — The carnival at the Northtown Mall in Blaine was shut down Saturday night by police after officers found people fighting each other on and around the Ferris wheel.
According to an official with the Blaine Police Department, officers arrived at the mall at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on a call of a reported fight at a carnival being held in the mall's parking lot. When the first officer arrived, they saw people fighting while riding the Ferris wheel and a large group of kids ran away.
Police say about 100 juveniles ran into the mall through the Burlington Coat Factory entrance, which forced the mall into lockdown and to close for the rest of the night.
One officer reported hearing gunshots and more police were called in, according to Blaine PD, including agencies from Anoka County and Minnesota State Patrol. No guns were found and police have not confirmed any shots were actually fired.
When the carnival shut down for the night, attendees were asked by police to leave but officials say a large group of kids refused to. Police then declared the group an unlawful assembly and ordered the group to leave the mall's parking lot.
By 10 p.m., the group had left, according to police.
Officials say no one was arrested and one juvenile was treated for minor injuries.
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This weekend has certainly been crazy!
Wouldn’t really have assumed Blaine to be overrun by feral utes. My kids play four or more soccer tournaments a year there. Guessing a little different crowd…
The feral hyena thugs?
Can't quite put my finger on it. /sarc
Just a group of pre-med Somalian students enjoying the Minneapolis suburbs...
The township was named after James Gillespie Blaine. Blaine was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884. In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. Blaine was one of the late 19th century’s leading Republicans and champion of the moderate reformist faction of the party, later known as the “Half-Breeds”.
At least there was a shooting
Police saw people fighting on the ferris wheel but didn’t arrest them, sigh...
Don't know what was left out but "carte blanche" seems a little uunlikely.
Ferris Wheelers Day Off.
Whoops.
Coulter’s Law applies.
Burlington Coat Factory! say no more.....
Save Ferris!
There was no police presence at the carnival before the fight per other local media reporting.
There will be from now on, but what the heck were they thinking?!
“youths” Why we can’t have nice things.
(Save Ferris!)
Woohoo!!!!
🎡🎡🎡🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉
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