A California shopping mall will require unaccompanied minors to wear identification tags after a wild brawl involving hundreds of people over cheap movie tickets.
The Moreno Valley Mall in Southern California plans to implement the change after multiple fights broke out Sunday during National Movie Day, where the local theater was offering $4 movie tickets, FOX Los Angeles reported.
Viral video of the fights shows people punching each other in the middle of the crowded mall as hundreds tried to take advantage of the deal, prompting police to lock down the building.
“We would like to remind you that mall security is not a babysitting service, and it is the responsibility of parents to educate their children to be respectful of others and behave accordingly when in public,” a statement reads. from the mall. .
“In light of today’s events, we will be forced to go back to the drawing board regarding neglected youth on our property.”
The mall’s new policy will require children who are in the mall unaccompanied after 5 p.m. to wear lanyards that contain their names and their parents’ contact information, the Press-Enterprise reported.
It is not yet clear when the new requirement will go into effect or exactly how it will be applied.
Hundreds of people were at the mall because the theater was offering $4 movie tickets as part of National Movie Day, FOX Los Angeles reported.KTLA 5
No weapons were used during the fight, mall management said.KTLA 5
“We would like to remind you that mall security is not a babysitting service, and it is the responsibility of parents to educate their children to be respectful of others and behave accordingly when in public,” a statement reads. from the mall. .KTLA 5
“In light of today’s events, we will be forced to go back to the drawing board regarding neglected youth on our property,” the statement continued.KTLA 5
The mall’s owners did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment.
The wild fights in Moreno Valley were not an isolated incident, as another violent fight involving a group of teenagers broke out the same day in Torrance, just south of Los Angeles.
Shocking video footage from that incident shows a group of teenagers chasing down a boy and pummeling him to the ground before an adult jumps in to save the victim, KTLA reports.
In response to Sunday’s events, unaccompanied minors will be required to wear lanyards containing their names and their parents’ contact information if they are in the mall unaccompanied after 5 p.m. on weekdays or anytime on weekends. , reported Press-Enterprise.Getty Images
The mall eventually closed after authorities were called to help security break up the fights. Google Street View
Meanwhile, on the East Coast, 13 teenagers were arrested at a Boston mall when two large fights involving up to 400 people broke out outside local AMC theaters.
Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox blamed the incident squarely on the crowd of unsupervised minors who flooded into the theater to buy $4 tickets.
“I can’t think of anything good that could happen when there are so many unsupervised and unguided young people that age entering the city,” Cox said in a statement.
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