Two Arrested in Teen Mall Brawl

Channel 5 NBC News, Dallas ^ | 5-23-1902 | NBC5i

[MissAmericanPie]

Two Arrested In Teen Mall Brawl
No Injuries Reported Despite Widespread Violence

POSTED: 4:29 p.m. CDT May 23, 2002
UPDATED: 9:37 p.m. CDT May 23, 2002

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A fight broke out at a North Texas shopping mall Thursday afternoon, creating a frenzied scene. Hundreds of brawling teens flooded from the Parks Mall in a sea of flying fists and kicking legs.

Several separate battles would follow as the teens waged their wars and police and mall security tried to calm the crowd.

An unusually large number of high school students were hanging around the mall Thursday. According to the Dallas Independent School District, the teens had been let out of school early because it was their last day of class for the year.

One group of teens had been wandering the mall, harassing and even getting physical with other customers, according to Christy Gilfour, of the Arlington Police Department.

"They were creating a disturbance, pushing some customers, causing some minor property damage. And they were asked ... to leave and began being escorted out by officers," Gilfour said.

The ousting, however, quickly led to pushing and shoving and then exploded into an all-out brawl inside the mall, Gilfour said.

Once outside, things only got worse. As the students ran from the building, Chopper 5 captured even more fighting.

Pockets of battles peppered the sea of bodies flowing into the parking lot.

Our helicopter camera recorded several students being punched and kicked in their faces and pummeled about their bodies. Several crazed groups ganged up on individuals, repeatedly attacking them from all angles.

Arlington police rushed to the scene and began trying to break up the crowd. They arrested two adults for assault, according to Gilfour, but it's not yet known if they were high school students.

Despite the violence, there were no injuries reported.

[MissAmericanPie]

Sorry, I don't know how to post the pictures.

[Liberal Classic]

And everyone was Kung Fu fighting!

[TADSLOS]

Hey, you can't do that, it's profiling!!

[Liberal Classic]

Sheesh.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The news chopper is obviously racist, not taking any pictures of the white males involved.

[FITZ]

Why aren't these kids out looking for jobs?

[AppyPappy]

A typical day at the mall. The popular custom is to walk several abreast and push anyone who stands in your way. Eventually, one group will encounter another group doing the same thing and a fight breaks out.

The mall is rapidly becoming less popular around here.

[Liberal Classic]

I think there are a couple of pigmentally challenged persons, but they seem to be high-tailing it out of there.

[Dakmar]

Next years University of Michigan law school class?

[AppyPappy]

You are a racist because you don't see the white males.

[HiJinx]

The kid in the red in the above picture is trying to get to the cop in the white vehicle...

Check out the NBC5i.com site for a slideshow of images...

[KC_Conspirator]

This reminds of those thugs and gangsters that started a mini-riot in Decateur, IL. Of course, Jesse Jackson ran down there and the PC media tried to describe these maniacs as "normal kids" despite their repeatedly violent criminal history.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

I wish I had a gun on me?

I love guns.

[MissAmericanPie]

Will you allow me to borrow your ping lists and ping this for me?

[E Rocc]

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A fight broke out at a North Texas shopping mall Thursday afternoon, creating a frenzied scene. Hundreds of brawling teens flooded from the Parks Mall in a sea of flying fists and kicking legs.

If this place doesn't take out the trash it's going to end up featured here.

-Eric

[the_doc]

Am I a racist for suspecting that there wouldn't be many whites in the available photos [grin]?

[MAWG]

I see nothing has changed since I was a kid or as we used to say, " Ten on one is _ _ _ _ _ _ fun."

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[Fellow Traveler]

Great. This is the mall my wife and I go to all of the time. We also take our two kids ages one and three. Maybe this will be enough to convince her to get a CCL like I have.

[MissAmericanPie]

All the jobs, and I'm very serious about this, are mostly filled by illegals. Burger places, groceries, all the normal places kids look for summer jobs are already filled. Not that these particular kids would be looking, didn't mean to imply that.