{"id":135760,"date":"2026-02-17T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:03:10","slug":"multiple-youths-arrested-during-chaotic-caught-on-camera-nyc-mall-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135760\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple youths arrested during chaotic caught-on-camera NYC mall brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaotic footage captured a massive group of rowdy kids brawling with police officers outside a Bronx mall on their day off Monday \u2014 prompting cops to cuff \u201cmultiple juveniles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just after 2 p.m. on Presidents\u2019 Day, police responded to a 911 call about a crowd control condition at the Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.55957031;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38511898\" width=\"330\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-16-26-mall-bay-121512353.jpg\" alt=\"Young teens fighting with police outside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Bronx, NY.\" class=\"wp-image-38511898\"  \/>Chaotic footage captured a massive group of disorderly kids brawling with police officers outside the Mall at Bay Plaza in the Bronx on Monday afternoon. X\/@Natanaelny1974<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, cops found a group of roughly 100 to 200 unruly youths and ordered them to disperse from the scene several times, according to police and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>Video<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/natanaelny1974\/status\/2023500412398030933?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> posted to social media <\/a>shows people screaming and running as police officers wrangled with members of the baby-faced mob outside the mall, with some appearing to resist and fight the cops.<\/p>\n<p>Other youngsters \u2014 who had the day off from school for Presidents\u2019 Day \u2014 were spotted whipping out their cellphones to film the chaos.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.59765625;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38511903\" width=\"353\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-16-26-mall-bay-121512352.jpg\" alt=\"Police engaging with a crowd of young people in front of &quot;Ugly Dumpling&quot; at The Mall at Bay Plaza in Bronx, NY.\" class=\"wp-image-38511903\"  \/>Video posted to social media captured people screaming and running as police officers wrangled with members of the baby-faced mob outside the mall. X\/@Natanaelny1974<\/p>\n<p>Multiple juveniles were taken into custody as cops tried to break up the melee, police said. Their exact charges are pending, and the number of arrests was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The scene at the mall \u2014 which features over 150 stores \u2014 remained active into Monday evening. An investigation into the incident remains ongoing, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaotic footage captured a massive group of rowdy kids brawling with police officers outside a Bronx mall on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,7052,37882,57,9,24,63,34034,4730,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-135760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-fights","11":"tag-mad-brawls","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-shopping-malls","17":"tag-teens","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}