OAN Newsroom UPDATED 10:51 AM PT — Friday, December 27, 2019
At least nine minors were arrested for fighting each other and police during a teen rampage at a Cincinnati area mall. Reports said police were called to the Northgate Mall on Thursday because employees and shoppers were fearful of the hundreds of teens fighting there.
Sources said the massive group busted into the mall all at once, causing chaos and disturbing shoppers. The single security guard on duty at the time was largely outnumbered and immediately called for backup.
When backup units arrived, the teens allegedly turned on police.
Quote“Literally putting their hands (on and) punching the police. There was a women, the cop had a pellet gun and she was getting beat up. All the men come running down and then all those kids started jumping on the police officers in there.” – Jackie Cella, witness
Sources said the event was planned by teens on Facebook and came a day after a curfew was instated at the mall for unaccompanied minors.
Massive brawl involving hundreds of people forces Connecticut mall to close early NY Post, Dec 27, 2019
Major fights broke out at a Connecticut mall, forcing authorities to shutter the shopping center hours early, according to police and new reports.
The fights — involving “in excess of a couple hundred” people — broke out around 6 p.m. Thursday at the Connecticut Post Mall in Milford, where panicked shoppers streamed out three hours before its usual closing time, police told local outlet WTNH.
“This whole situation was crazy,” New Haven resident Monae Moye told the station. “They were fighting in the food court… All I saw was somebody, they swung and hit somebody in the head and that person just fell out. It was like they hit them so hard, it was so crazy.”
Milford Police tweeted that “several fights” prompted the closure and that multiple police departments responded to help contain the chaos.