Posted on 05/19/2025 12:38:27 AM PDT by Libloather
Hundreds of youths descended upon a north Jersey mall Saturday night in a meet-up that was reportedly pre-planned on TikTok and led to a massive brawl.
Seven minors were arrested in the chaotic melee that was spurred by TikTok posts calling for juveniles to meet up at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey, that night, according to officials and local reports.
The out-of-control gathering soon grew exponentially from just 100 people to “over 300 youth” from across the Garden State shortly after 8 p.m., Edison Mayor Sam Joshi wrote on social media.
At least four of the seven minors who were arrested were from other towns, according to Joshi.
Edison police had to call for back-up from neighboring police departments to clear out the hooligans.
As cops worked to get the rowdy crowd under control, one officer fractured their ankle, Edison Police Chief Tom Bryan told My Central Jersey.
None of the youths were injured and no weapons were recovered, cops said.
Of the seven arrested, one was charged with aggravated assault on an officer, and six others face disorderly conduct charges. One person was charged with both disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, Bryan told the outlet.
Some participating youth shared posts on TikTok and Instagram leading up to the swarm, telling people to show up at the mall at 7 p.m.
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“So that makes everyone who is black automatically a criminal by default? That is just like them claiming that everyone white is a racist supremacist.”
Pathetic strawman argument. No one said that. What was said, accurately, is that yet again feral urban blacks created a highly disruptive and dangerous situation. FACT.
Until we acknowledge the issue and take steps to eliminate the problem, it will continue to fester, grow and degrade our society. Millions more will be victimized. It’s time for strong measures, not kumbayah platitudes.
“The fact is, the White Liberals cater to that subculture, because it’s useful to keep them in power.”
Absolute fact. And we when we practice racism we are also playing right into their hands and agenda. We hand them the full control of narrative. We make them correct about their accusations towards us which gives them even more power. We are allowing ourselves to be played and help their end goals...
Have a friend travelling in NJ this week - flying out of Newark later. Will be glad to learn that she is home safely.
“Did the bookstore get looted?
How about the workbooks in the shoe sections? Were those all taken too?”
The shoe store was looted of everything but work boots.
“No one said that.”
Just about everyone here says that just about everyday. The archives are chocked full of this very same universal sentiment. It is a fact. And just look, I am right now being persecuted because I dared to step outside the lines of common consensus.
“Until we acknowledge the issue and take steps to eliminate the problem.”
Ok, how do we do this then? Go to arms and commit genocidal ethnic cleansing? Gather them up like cattle and send them all to another country? Or as a “moral” sort do we reach out and work with them to help them fix themselves?
Only one of these is going to happen and only one of these might actually work... It would be ignorant and inept to think any different. So we can perpetuate the hate or make a truly productive effort in a moral righteous direction.
Our once beautiful and crowded mall is being torn down. It use dto be THE PLACE to go shopping and just to hang out or try the Food Court vendors.
Now it’s going to be gone in a couple of more months..............
There are two kinds of malls:
The malls the white people go to.
The malls the white people used to go to.
-Chris Rock
“Shine the light on EVERY occasion of feral black criminal behavior. Sooner or later enough of us will get fed up enough to take the necessary actions to put a stop to this BS.”
Are you calling for genocide and ethnic cleansing? These are exactly the words they are hoping to see. These are exactly the words they want to use to make MAGA into an evil irrational racist cult that makes Trump look bad. These are exactly the words they will use in the future to shut down the Free Republic so that none of us have it.
Are you here to make this community look bad with extremist statements like that?
N____s will break into your house; you want to save your money? Put it in your books.
‘Cause n____s don’t read. Just put the money in the books. S___, books are like Kryptonite to a n____. “Here’s a book!” “NOOOO! NOOOO! NOT A BOOK! NOOOO! NOOOO!”
-Chris Rock
Our mall has already been shrunk to about 1/4 it’s original size. The rest has been torn down and has been replaced with apartment buildings. The rest will be gone when the few leases that are left expire...........
I agree with you. It’s childish and offensive to blame blacks when this is really a class problem. Thank you for your courage to speak up in the thick of strong group think.
“So that makes everyone who is black automatically a criminal by default?”
No, not at all, but why are they so disproportionately represented in these crime statistics? Because they lack fathers in the home. You are aware that about 72% of children in this demographic are born out of wedlock, right?
Get the fathers back in the home and those statistics will drop by a large number.
How should this problem be addressed without being labeled as a racist by the Left?
No, not at all, but why are they so disproportionately represented in these crime statistics? Because they lack fathers in the home. You are aware that about 72% of children in this demographic are born out of wedlock, right?
Thank LBJ and his “No So Great Society”.
“It increased by 10^log(3). You know, “exponentially”
That is not exponentally.
Of course, I see the need for better education, psychological intervention and emphasis on ethical rationalism in society. But in the mean time, in between time, I see the need for rubber bullets, tear gas and confinement in closely supervised hard work camps for offenders.
Imagine. This broken, lost generation will grow up to run the country and look after us in our old age. They need Savior Jesus Christ so badly. Pray for them.
As if a journalist would know the difference between arithmetic and algebra, much less exponential. Probably can’t balance a check book or figure out the mpg of his electric car.
Really? You don't think "Blacks are bad tippers" and "What race most eats at Red Lobster" are ways to bring in more black Americans to FR and the conservative cause?
LOL! Let's face it - there are some posters that are racist. And they post things anonymously that they would never say in public. Why? Some of it is cowardice.
“How should this problem be addressed without being labeled as a racist by the Left?”
Now that is a productive question. Instead of persecuting them we should be working with them in trust towards the same goal. We are not the only ones who want to cure their issues. Many of them themselves would like to cure these problems too. But I do know one thing, displaying racism is NOT going to help anything and absolutely nothing productive is going to come from it for either of us...
“Let’s face it - there are some posters that are racist.”
Some? It is pretty bad when you get stoned and burned at the stake because you are NOT racist...
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