Up to 400 aggressive teenagers stormed a New York mall, trashing stores, assaulting security guards and terrifying customers and personnel during a so-called game of “knockout” that forced the shopping center to shut down the day after Christmas.
Hundreds of “fast and furious” teens reportedly stole cheap items, smashed jars of candy and even beat up security guards at Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn between 5 pm and 7 pm on Thursday. They used social media to set up the attack, designed to put the mall “on tilt”.
“I’ve been here seven years and I have never seen anything like this before – I’m so scared. I know they will come back,” a clerk at Candy Plaza 2, Abu Taleb, told the New York Post.
“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 31-year-old man added.
One female witness said she saw “a tall white guy wearing a ski mask and a skull cap”, who had his hand under his coat “like he was holding a gun…”
A number of merchants rushed to roll down metal gates to protect themselves from the raging teenage horde, while security guards tried to stop the youngsters.
“A lot of kids running, and I’m hearing screaming, so the security guard said there’s a little security issue, you have to bring down the gates to keep the consumers, our customers safe,” Greg Casiano told CBS 2.
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