Three children were robbed while riding electric scooters to a store at a North Miami Beach shopping plaza, the victims said.<\/p>\n
The incident happened Sunday as the children were on their way to a Ross store when they were confronted by a group of teens on bicycles in the plaza\u2019s parking lot.<\/p>\n
Security video captured the moment the suspects stopped the children and confronted them, apparently trying to take their scooters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were trying to get us off the scooters and take them. I was in shock \u2014 frozen with fear,\u201d one of the victims said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSurveillance video shows a group of suspects attacking teens and stealing electric scooters in northeast Miami-Dade.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Another victim, 14, who asked not to show his face out of fear, said the situation escalated quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him to stop touching my scooter, and then he asked me if I wanted to get punched,\u201d he said. \u201cHe pushed me to the ground and took the scooter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victims said two of the three electric scooters \u2014 worth more than $1,000 \u2014 were stolen during the incident.<\/p>\n
Afterward, one of the children ran into the shopping center to ask for help and call 911 as the attackers fled.<\/p>\n
The children\u2019s parents are now calling for action from authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they give the scooters back and we hear there were consequences and that these kids were found, then people will get the message,\u201d the father of one victim said.<\/p>\n
North Miami Beach police confirmed they are investigating, but have not released additional details about possible suspects or arrests.<\/p>\n
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three children were robbed while riding electric scooters to a store at a North Miami Beach shopping plaza,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,32371],"class_list":["post-249086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-north-miami-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}