Posted on 01/09/2017 9:34:18 AM PST by Jack Black
CULVER CITY (CBSLA.com) A large fight at the Westfield Culver City mall Saturday led to pandemonium at the facility, officials said.
The mall, formerly known as the Fox Hills Mall, was unable to handle a brawl between as many as 50 juveniles.
Culver City Police were dispatched to handle the brawl. A SWAT team was also dispatched.
Reports of a male with a gun, or an active shooter on scene, appeared to be erroneous.
After police arrived, teens running through the mall appeared to set off panic among some shoppers.
There were no reports of arrests or injuries.
The erroneous reports led to a large police presence and a mass exodus from the mall.
/sarc
My folks grew up in 1940's Detroit, when teenage girls could ride the streetcars home from Edgewater Park on a Friday night with no worries. I grew up in a next-door city, and can remember Christmas visits to Hudson's and the Ford Rotunda. Then, I remember dad's shotgun being kept out and loaded during the riots. Then, we moved further away.
JUST KEEPIN IT REAL!!!
“juveniles”
Nice euphemism.
I live just outside Muncie, IN, home of the famous transmission. That factory was closed years ago, along with many other auto related industries, grass growing in all their parking lots
And you can drive through “America’s Hometown” and see similar dilapidated scenes, run-down brick buildings with particle board in the windows, washed out For Sale signs.
Not at all sure what the solution is (a successful billionaire real estate developer?), but insanity is fifty years of Democrats doing the same things over-and-over, making empty promises, when we know what they wanted all along was just to keep a certain voting bloc on board.
Keep up the good work showing their Great Society in the urban failure known as Detroit.
I really want the world I grew up in back. I am not liking Brazil/South Africa.
Replaced by shopping malls.
Now the shopping malls are being lost.
Replaced by smart phones.
Then where will the muggers find their victims?
Where will the flash mobs find stores to rob?
What a terrific photo.
Not a flag burner in sight.
Thanks for posting.
Roger that. We most assuredly do.
And the all time winner: La-a (Ladasha)
LaQuinta Shabazz.
“No arrests? Why?”
Because racism, that’s why. /s
I’ve noticed, in reading about mall brawls for several years, that there are NEVER any arrests.
Look for it. At the end of every one of these stories of brawling “teens,” invariably we are told that police were called to “disperse the crowds.”
We are always informed the dispersal took the police awhile, since the brawlers numbered in the dozens, or hundreds.
This is ALWAYS followed by the statement “No arrests were made.”
To your question, “Why?” I would add: “Why aren’t the local media asking that question? Isn’t that their job?”
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