Posted on 05/24/2002 10:43:02 AM PDT by 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.
When I saw the part of the article where gangs of thugs were beating individuals, I thought that these thugs are no better than rampaging animals.
Rampaging animals that should be put down.
I've been away too long! Where is this going on? Really, I have'nt been to a mall in years.
As such, nationally, this will be just another HUSH CRIME, just like in Cincinati, or anywhere else where non-whites rape, murder, mug, or riot.
Good terminology, I'm afraid.
Or ten percent off two hundred dollar Nikes.
This becomming too common at malls al across the country. Well, maybe except like in Bevery Hills or Boca Raton where its 99% white.
Would it surprise you if the two adults arrested were white people defending themselves?
You must of gone to school at Malcom X High School, or maybe it was Slack Jaw High.
That is one of the truely pernicious results of our importation of illegals. Sometime look up what nobel prize winning economist Gary Becker has to say about the importance of the initial entry level jobs on lifetime earnings.
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