Jessica Andryushchenko, 15, was heading into Arden Fair mall with a friend Monday evening when a security officer stopped them and asked if they were with a parent or guardian. They weren’t, and they were surprised to find out their status as unaccompanied minors meant they were barred from entering.
“I thought it was really weird,” said Andryushchenko, who ended up going to see a movie instead. “We weren’t upset. We were just confused.”
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The day after Christmas is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and as many as 65,000 shoppers poured into Arden Fair on Monday in search of post-holiday sales. Looking to manage the crowd and prevent fights such as the ones that closed the mall early on Dec. 26, 2014, Arden officials on Monday activated a rule that was recently added to the mall’s code of conduct – during periods of high occupancy, security may require minors to be accompanied by adults.
“We, in the past, have had several issues with safety at the mall the day after Christmas,” Arden Fair spokeswoman Jamie Donely said. “Several issues with fights and other unsafe activity, and so this was our way to make the mall safe on a day when the mall typically has some bad history.”
Donely said mall officials tried to prevent violence last year by bringing in more police officers, but brawls still broke out. So this year, they tried this new strategy, and it looks to have been effective, she said. There were two minor altercations Monday, one inside the mall and one outside, but nothing on the scale of previous years.
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Donely said mall officials tried to prevent violence last year by bringing in more police officers, but brawls still broke out. So this year, they tried this new strategy, and it looks to have been effective, she said. There were two minor altercations Monday, one inside the mall and one outside, but nothing on the scale of previous years.
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Donely said mall officials tried to prevent violence last year by bringing in more police officers, but brawls still broke out. So this year, they tried this new strategy, and it looks to have been effective, she said. There were two minor altercations Monday, one inside the mall and one outside, but nothing on the scale of previous years.
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Donely said mall officials tried to prevent violence last year by bringing in more police officers, but brawls still broke out. So this year, they tried this new strategy, and it looks to have been effective, she said. There were two minor altercations Monday, one inside the mall and one outside, but nothing on the scale of previous years.
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11 comments:
So once again, media decides not to indict the general class/race of people who are primarily responsible for this type of behavior. Every time I hear about a general disturbance of this size and magnitude the first thing I think of is, "Those God damned Swedes!!!"
The article is targeting teens. Should they be more specific?
Yes.
I would give them "The Talk.
Yes. They should be more specific, but to be politically correct they can't.
Here IS what the article said...hinting at what the problem is:
“There’s a pretty discrete group of people who cause a bulk of these problems, at least historically,” McPhail said. “It tends to be teenage boys.”
Now they could be even more specific and state Hispanic gang teenage boys. Black teens. But, they can't be honest about it.
I look at this the same way as Trump's proposal to protect the United States from Islamic Terrorists. Rioting and robbing teens in the Mall/Islamic Terrorists in the United States If you can't pick out the discrete trouble makers....and we KNOW who they are, then you stop, even if only temporarily, ALL who fit that general description.
All teens can't go unaccompanied to the mall. All people from Muslim countries can't come in until we are able to know who you are and what you are going to do. Too bad the good teens, the good Muslims get caught up in the decision. Tough nuts. You have to protect the greater good. Protect the innocent shoppers and store keepers from the out of control teens. Protect the public from Islamic Terrorism.
It is a simple fact of life. This happened at Kings Plaza Mall in 2015. I shop there. But only early during a weekday before school lets out
I've read 'the talk' before, and agree I must give some version of it to my kids, as if they didn't realize most of this already. But the part about avoiding large crowds seems most on point. The law of averages will catch up with many people.
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) was decided December 18, 1944.
The Firm of Trump, Sessions, Flynn, and Kelly will get the point across soon enough.
Even sooner if a few SCUS openings appear.
PS A lot of The Talk is impressed upon kids among themselves. I had a cousin who went to one of the Diocesan high schools in Philadelphia (the parish was in Bryn Mawr) and the first thing the other Irish kids told him was, "Make friends with the Italians, that way the blacks will leave you alone because they don't know which of the Eyeties' fathers are in the mob".
There were rules back then.
“It tends to be teenage boys.”
Those damned Mormon missionaries.
All I want for Kwaanza are your two front teef.
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