After a flash mob of about 300 teens caused chaos inside the Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn on Thursday night, the New York Police Department sent extra enforcement to keep any minor without a guardian from entering the mall on throughout the weekend, New York Daily News reported.
A post on social media site Facebook said to put the mall on "tilt," and the teens did just that when they started a stampede and were yelling, running and fighting with each other inside the mall hallways, causing stores to close their gates in fear, according to the Daily News.
On Friday, the mall said any "minor children [must] have an adult escort" to enter the mall in order to avoid another fiasco, according to the Daily News.
Cellphone videos posted online, and later quickly removed from YouTube, show multiple girls fighting with each other as police officers try to intervene while hundreds of kids run throughout the mall, according to the Daily News.
Abu Taleb, one of the mall vendors said kids were running all over and stealing candy from his store, according to the Daily News.
"It was scary," Taleb told the Daily News. "Everybody was scared. There were a lot of people, a lot of kids. It was very loud. Security tried to stop them, but they could not do it," adding that "Kids tried to get my cash from the register, (One) had scissors and was acting like he (was) going to attack me," the Daily News reported.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said besides the havoc, no one filed a complaint for being robbed or assaulted, the Daily News reported.
"They weren't stealing anything," an NYPD spokeswoman told the Daily News. "They weren't assaulting anyone. They were going through the mall, making loud noises. Some were fighting with each other."
Shortly after police removed the kids from the mall, they shut down all entrances and exits, but reopened mall doors about 20 minutes later, the Daily News reported.
Hashem Muhammad, an employee Airwalkers, said the entire thing was "crazy," according to the Daily News.
"Kids were dancing everywhere," Muhammad told the Daily News, adding that "the customers and their kids were scared."
Angel Craig, a 15-year-old regular at the Brooklyn Mall tried to do some post-Christmas shopping but was stopped before entering and told to go home because he was a minor, the Daily News reported.
"It's unfair. Not every teenager is reckless, I wouldn't come to a mall and wreak havoc," Angel told the Daily News.
