None of the articles I’ve seen on the “large crowd” of hundreds of “youths” or “juveniles” at the Del Amo mall last week that prompted a multi-agency police response that shut down the mall and surrounding streets for several hours and resulted in a grand total of — (checks notes) 5 arrests, two minor injuries, and no looting or vandalism — have said anything about what the “unruly behavior” or “disruptive behavior” was that the police were responding to, which makes me wonder if it was a bunch of teenagers partying loudly in the parking lot who got angry when the cops showed up to confront them and things escalated from there.
The most I found was that police had broken up a fight at the mall several hours earlier.
It’s getting wrapped in with the exaggerated “flash mob looters!” narrative, but again: no looting or vandalism.
Was there any actual crime, or were they just making shoppers nervous by being loud?
For comparison, the articles about the guy who was robbed on the way out of the same mall a day or two before Christmas and jumped into the thieves’ car as they led the police on a chase because he didn’t want to lose the hundreds of dollars worth of Christmas presents he’d just bought were considerably more specific about what happened, and what the suspects were alleged to have done.