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300 juveniles involved in massive brawl for planned meet up at NJ mall
ABC7NY ^
 | 5/19/2025
 | Toni Yates
Posted on 05/21/2025 11:50:01 AM PDT by simpson96
EDISON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Several teens were arrested after a brawl broke out at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey on Saturday night. 
The chaos erupted after hundreds of teens showed up for a gathering planned through TikTok. 
One officer was injured in the mayhem. 
It started with a call out days before by a social media influencer for his followers to descend on Menlo Park Mall on Saturday night. 
"They were having a brawl, they were pushing and shoving, when our officers arrived, they actually started fighting with our officers," Chief Thomas Bryan with the Edison Police Department said. 
Three-hundred juveniles were so out of control that police from surrounding towns had to respond as well. 
It took about an hour and a half to break up the gathering. 
Seven juveniles were arrested, mostly for resisting officers, none of which were from Edison. 
One was arrested for assault on an Edison officer. 
All of the juveniles were released to their parents eventually. 
On Monday, Edison Mayor Sam Joshi spoke about the incident and partially blamed the teenagers' parents. 
"What are the parents doing? Aren't the parents aware that they're traveling 45 minutes to cause a disturbance within Edison Township? It makes no sense. Parents need to be focused on their kids, making sure they're not causing this kind of rowdiness in other towns," Joshi said.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; antisocialmedia; blacktrashmatters; demographic; donate2freerepublic; edison; edisontownship; flashmob; flashmobs; ghettogarbage; menloparkmall; newjersey; nobodysearches; samjoshi; teens; tiktok; youths; yutes
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:50:01 AM PDT
by 
simpson96
 
To: simpson96
    “What are the parents doing?”
TikTok and other social media platforms are raising those kids.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:51:08 AM PDT
by 
simpson96
 
To: simpson96
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:51:27 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: simpson96
    300 juveniles involved in massive brawl for planned meet up at NJ mall
Toni's a poet, and didn't know it.
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:51:51 AM PDT
by 
RandallFlagg
(Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
 
To: dfwgator
    saved yourself a thousand words there...
 
To: simpson96
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:53:42 AM PDT
by 
Salman
(Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
 
To: simpson96
    300 
juveniles gang members involved in massive brawl for planned meet up at NJ mall
There ... I fixed it.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:54:04 AM PDT
by 
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
 
To: dfwgator
    Huh. I’m in B4 the Yogi/Boo Boo meme.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:54:21 AM PDT
by 
Responsibility2nd
(Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
 
To: simpson96
    I didn’t think the Amish went to malls.
 
To: simpson96
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:56:40 AM PDT
by 
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
 
To: simpson96
    Three hundred juveniles involved in massive brawl...
Seven were arrested....
*ROFL* That sounds about right!!!!!!!
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:56:56 AM PDT
by 
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
 
To: where's_the_Outrage?
    There are two kinds of malls, as Chris Rock said:
- The malls the white people go to.
- The malls the white people used to go to.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:57:07 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: simpson96
    juveniles .......................
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:58:06 AM PDT
by 
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
 
To: Red Badger
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posted on 
05/21/2025 11:59:02 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: dfwgator
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posted on 
05/21/2025 12:00:39 PM PDT
by 
econjack
 
To: JBW1949
    That sounds like many had serious amounts of illicit fun with exactly zero consequences.
A.K.A.: A party.
 
To: dfwgator
    Frankie Lymon is my favorite junkie polygamist.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 12:03:02 PM PDT
by 
thegagline
(Sic semper tyrannis!  Trump & Vance, 2024!  (Formerly) Goldwater  & Thomas Sowell.)
 
To: simpson96
    Repatriation would have solved all this. The north messed up
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 12:04:05 PM PDT
by 
doorgunner69
(Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
 
To: doorgunner69
    Should have picked our own damned cotton.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 12:04:53 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: where's_the_Outrage?
    The Amish are the only people that go to malls.
 
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posted on 
05/21/2025 12:05:37 PM PDT
by 
webheart
(Why not write out because instead of saying b/c and with instead of w/ ?)
 
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