VIDEO: Violent Game of ‘Knockout’ Breaks Out at Brooklyn Mall After Hundreds of Teens Plan Mass Looting on Facebook, Twitter
Hundreds of rowdy teenagers shut
down a Brooklyn mall, trashing stores and reportedly assaulting security
guards during day-after Christmas sales on Thursday. The teens
reportedly used Facebook and Twitter to plan mass looting, vowing to put
the mall “on tilt.”
More than “400 crazed teens grabbed and
smashed jars of candy, stole cheap items such as baby balloons and beat
up security guards at Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin between
5 p.m. and 7 p.m., merchants said,” according to the New York Post.
Further, sources also told the Post
that a violent game of “knockout” broke out on the upper level of the
mall. There were fears that at least of the teens may have had a gun.
Watch some of the video footage reportedly showing the wild scene at
Kings Plaza (Content warning):
WABC-TV reports
that the flash mob may have been started by a shirt one girl was
wearing that included a picture and an ugly message about another girl.
The girls reportedly responded to a message on Facebook to meet at the
mall.
“Videos posted online show the unruly
teenagers in the mall, and at least one was taken down by a police
officer. Some of the videos appear to have been taken on the second
floor, near the Best Buy store,” the report states.
Abu Taleb, a clerk at Candy Plaza 2, told the New York Post
he’s never seen anything like the chaotic scene that unfolded at the
mall on Thursday. “I’m so scared,” he said. “I know they will come
back.”
“I was begging them to stop. There were
a lot of kids hundreds of kids… [Security] would chase them out one
door and they would come back in another door,” the clerk added.
Screengrab via the Daily Mail
Screengrab via the Daily Mail
Screengrab via the Daily Mail
Clerks at other stores were also
terrified and forced to roll down the metal gates protecting their
stores as security and police attempted to break up the unruly mob. The
mall remained closed for about an hour, according to the Post’s sources.
“People were getting really scared. A
tall white guy with a grey bubble coat was wearing a ski mask and a
skull cap and he had his hand under his coat like he was holding a gun,”
a perfume merchant recalled.
Some of the teens took to social media to brag about the mob violence, including the assault of security guards.
(H/T: Daily Mail)
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