{"id":183250,"date":"2026-04-02T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:56:07","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-585","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183250\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx leaders are urging social media platforms to stop the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/bronx-district-attorney-urges-social-media-platforms-to-help-stop-teen-takeovers-ahead-of-spring-break\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018teen takeover<\/a>\u2019 posts as spring break starts today.<\/p>\n<p>\tBronx elected officials and the Bronx district attorney\u2019s office are working to prevent another \u201cteen takeover\u201d at local shopping centers like the one that caused chaos at Bay Plaza earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\tOfficials are calling on social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat to help stop the spread of posts that promote large, unsafe gatherings and riots.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe move comes after a frightening scene unfolded at Bay Plaza during winter recess in February, when hundreds of teens swarmed the mall and surrounding outdoor stores. The takeover forcing several businesses yo close early, and the safety of the teens and shoppers was heightened.<\/p>\n<p>\tPolice took 18 teens and one 19-year-old into custody in connection with the incident. Those arrested were charged with riot and unlawful assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx leaders are urging social media platforms to stop the spread of \u2018teen takeover\u2019 posts as spring break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-183250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183250","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=183250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}