Massive teen brawl, stampede shuts down La. mall

Cell phone video caught the chaos at the Mall of Louisiana Saturday night. / WWL-TV/CBS News

BATON ROUGE, La. Large groups of brawling teenagers sparked a stampede at a Louisiana mall that led police to evacuate the shopping center and shut it down early.

More than 200 teens were in the Mall of Louisiana's food court when a large fight broke out just before 6 p.m. Saturday, although it wasn't clear how many were actually fighting.

No injuries were reported. CBS Louisiana affiliate WWL-TV reports some of the juveniles could face charges

Witnesses told the Advocate that the trouble started after Instagram users posted an invitation to their followers on social media telling them to come and meet them in person at the mall.

Police corralled unaccompanied youths until parents arrived to pick them up.

Below is WWL-TV's report, including cell phone video of large crowds of mall-goers being escorted outside by police:

[Millennial]

lucky57e10 says: Too bad none of them have parent(s). Too bad people can't go to a mall because it is owned by bloods or crypts or any other punk black or mexicrap gang..

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..to bad white kindergarden kids-ages 6-7.. can't go to school without being mowed down by an assault weapon.. MURDERED @ the hands of the weapon owner's son---his mother who was once a teacher as the same school..murdered also by the son with her own weapons used to murder those kindergarden students .. TOO BAD isn't it..

..now what?

[HobartSchmenge]

Massive Teen Brawl would be a good name for a punk band.

[randomites]

Reminds me of the first Star Trek movie - a real chaotic mess.

[frankie2fing]

(sings) Dumb, de dumb, dumb dumb...
South Park

[cptdeuce]

More typical behavior from the Lack of Accountability Culture.

[sickofwhiners]

Nopartyline that was a troll comment

[signseeker1717]

The hyperbolic, tabloid-style headline isn't backed up by the short, blurry video OR the content (it's "unclear" how many were fighting). I don't know if this is "typical" of ANYTHING except vague reporting being passed off as a near-riot by a hysterical headline writer.

[SeymourHolz]

this video is racist, the cameraperson only took pictures of black folks

[randomites]

Uhhhhh........

[UncmmnSense]

No, the video only has black people IN FOCUS...that's why all the pictures regarding this incident show that black kid in the red shirt...because he was the only kid in focus for the whole video. Lots of other kinds of people in the video. Sucks that so many snarky racists have come out. (Seriously...see comments below).

[curtiswillm]

think people in the mall let there iimagtion get the better of them by thinking gun an panicked.

[JV1970]

Some of them probably did have guns, and maybe knives too, but they just didn't use them!

[BigMykul]

Like the ones who thought signs being knocked over was gunfire.
LOL

[curtiswillm]

think people in the mall let there iimagtion get the better of them by thinking gun an panicked.

[FactCheckOrgUser]

Where was the Un-Armed Mall Security?

[sallychicago]

I hope the parents were fined.

[cherrybrown]

Good point. Making parents more accountable in the pocket book may actually get their attention.