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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...

Mt. Ennon Baptist Church is a 9000-member megachurch in Clinton, MD, that is associated with the National Baptist Convention USA and is led by senior “pastor” Delman Coates. According to their website, their vision is to be a “Caring, Christ-centered, Community Church, with a Kingdom Agenda.” One of their core beliefs is the importance of “Biblical Preaching and Teaching” , because “The Word of God is the final authority; it is true; it is unchangeable; it is to be used to equip the saints to achieve our mission.” At the same time, however, along with other beliefs centering around “prayer,”...

New York City previously tore down a historic Thomas Jefferson statue only to now erect a 12-foot bronze statue of an "overweight black woman," which many blasted as “tasteless” and more.The statue is called “Grounded in the Stars” and was unveiled on Wednesday in Times Square, created by artist Thomas J. Price. The artist's “Man Series,” a stop motion animation, will also appear nightly throughout May on the district’s billboards, providing a “two-part takeover” in the district that “amplifies traditionally marginalized bodies on a monumental scale," per the Times Square website.Price said, per the Times Square site.“Times Square stands as...

Jasmine Crockett on deportations: "This is insane. How would it feel if countries sent people to our country!?

The mother of Texas teen murder suspect Karmelo Anthony broke down in tears on Thursday over the death threats she claims her family has suffered and the “false information” about the family flooding social media.Kayla Hays, the suspect’s mother, told reporters that her family has become the target of threats and that their lives have been disrupted by misinformation.“In the wake of this tragic incident, our family has been under attack. Whatever you think happened between Carmelo and the Metcalf boy — my three other children, my husband and I — didn’t do anything to deserve to be threatened, harassed,...

The homeless man who police say attacked two women in Soho with a glass bottle, viciously slashing one in the throat, has a history of arrests for assault and two felony convictions. Tuesday afternoon, Muslim Brunson, 46, was awaiting arraignment for the Monday attacks on Megan Berg, a 25-year-old costume designer whose trachea was damaged, and the 29-year-old woman he struck over the head with the bottle near Broome St. and Wooster St. around 3 p.m. Brunson has five prior arrests dating back to 2019, four of them for assault, police said. In September 2019, he pushed a 13-year-old male...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) advocated for illegal immigration in the U.S. and suggested black Americans were “done picking cotton.” Crockett’s words reportedly came while “speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut,” according to commentator Collin Rugg. While speaking, Crockett claimed that she was going around the U.S. educating “people about what immigrants” do for the U.S., and claimed that nobody is “trying to go and farm right now.” “I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants,” Crockett said in the video...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles over the weekend: "We in these hot ass Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, Come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey! So, so yes! Yes, yes, yes."

...who has no idea what he’s talking about.”

Outgoing Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) — a member of the far-left “Squad” — is demanding that the next Star Wars movie features a black Jedi lead character, saying he will refuse to watch and will even denounce the movie franchise if his demand isn’t met. The threat to the Walt Disney Company comes as the studio recently announced a new Star Wars movie trilogy in the making from X-Men veteran Simon Kinberg. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who is set to leave Congress in January after losing his primary, made his demand known in an X post on Tuesday.

The Miami Dolphins NFL team has condemned police conduct towards their player Tyreek Hill as "violent", "maddening" and "despicable". Bodycam footage of the incident released on Monday showed officers dragging Hill out of his car, before forcing him to lie face down on the road and handcuffing him. While he was on the ground, one officer put a knee on his back, holding the player's wrists against his lower back. While he was on the ground, one officer put a knee on his back, holding the player's wrists against his lower back.

A pack of young teenage girls randomly attacked an elderly man on a Brooklyn subway platform early Monday — with at least one assailant whacking the victim with a scooter, cops and police sources said. The 76-year-old man was lying on a bench at the Rockaway Avenue subway station when the five suspects launched the assault, punching and kicking his head around 2:10 a.m., according to authorities. One of the perpetrators even swung her scooter at the man’s head in what sources said was an unprovoked attack on northbound C line platform. The offenders are believed to be between the...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH Here's video proof that Ta’Kiya Young tried to run over a police officer with her car. Why are people defending her? Why are people angry at the police officer for defending himself? https://youtube.com/watch?v=pZGydtDx8PY #TaKiyaYoung #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForTaKiyaYoung

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown... Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis Brown suffered a severe brain injury Friday after being knocked to the ground.... Police also didn’t intervene when the protesters began shaking the fence outside the station. But he said that when they broke a section of fencing, he sent out the arrest team. The suspect who charged at Travis Brown knocked him backward with his shoulder, and the officer hit his head as he tumbled...

Two female tourists from Mexico were violently shoved onto train tracks by a random woman at a Manhattan subway station early Monday, the NYPD and sources said. The victims, ages 28 and 27, were pushed off the northbound F platform at the Delancey Street/Essex Street station on the Lower East Side just after 2:15 a.m., according to cops. The women had been waiting for the train when the suspect suddenly approached and shoved one of them onto the tracks in an unprovoked attack, police said.

Sacramento State police are warning students of an on-campus sexual battery. A release from the university's police department said the assault happened around 9:20 p.m. on May 8. A person squeezed another person's buttocks while they were walking down the Hornet Tunnel. The police department said that the person believed to be responsible for the battery has since been seen loitering in the tunnel since then. The person is described as a male who is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, wearing a dark baseball hat and a black hoodie that says, "I am Black History" in the front. He also...

A series of women have posted alarming TikTok reports about being randomly punched by a stranger while walking in New York, including at least two daylight attacks reported to cops this week. Halley Kate, an influencer who has 1.1 million followers on the platform, posted a video Monday after one attack being investigated by the NYPD, saying it caused her to fall to the ground and black out. “You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,” Kate said through tears in a post on Monday morning. “Oh my God, it...

Authorities have identified two suspects who attacked a Chipotle employee in South Carolina after being told that extra chicken would raise the price of their meal. Jamel Bernard Williams, 36, and Kayla Nicole Pyle, 34, both of Charlotte, have been accused of attacking a 20-year-old female Chipotle employee on December 10. Williams has been charged with assault and first-degree battery and Pyle with assault and second-degree battery. According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, Pyle came into the fast food restaurant to place an order and reportedly asked for extra chicken. The unidentified employee told the customer that the extra...

On December 5, 2023, around 9:52 p.m., the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Willis High School about an assault that occurred in the parking lot at the school. According to the victim, who is a coach for Willis ISD, he was assaulted by several individuals, including a student identified as Jevin Allen, 17, when they returned to the school after the Willis and Conroe game. The coach says Jevin was benched at the game due to his behavior toward an opposing team player, which infuriated Jevin and his family. Willis ISD ends school year due to power outage...

A 20-year-old Detroit mother allegedly punched and knocked out a female Kroger worker as her one-year-old child watched from a shopping cart. Shelby Parham, from Detroit, Michigan, has been accused of attacking a 49-year-old Kroger worker who lost consciousness and suffered a head injury after the assault. The wild beating was captured on nearby security cameras at a Kroger in St. Clair Shores on Tuesday. In the video, Parham can be seen walking up to the unnamed clerk and punching her in the face, sending her flat to the ground, while her one-year-old baby witnessed the incident from a shopping...