{"id":194359,"date":"2026-05-16T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194359\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:51:08","slug":"swatch-watch-release-draws-about-100-officers-to-king-of-prussia-mall-for-crowd-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194359\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatch watch release draws about 100 officers to King of Prussia Mall for crowd control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 police officers were called to King of Prussia Mall early on Saturday morning for crowd control and dispersal connected to a watch release.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Merion Township police said a group of &#8220;several hundred people&#8221; was gathered outside the mall before it opened for a new release from Swatch, a watch brand with a retail location inside the mall.<\/p>\n<p>When police told the group to move back from the mall doors, &#8220;the crowd continued to grow and and became more defiant, prompting requests for additional police resources, which brought approximately 100 officers to the scene,&#8221; police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the crowd was dispersed, police saw others break down doors to enter the mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers deployed to each location to prevent further damage to the mall, entry into stores, and looting,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The mall reopened at 12 p.m. \u2013 but the Swatch store will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said additional officers will be at the mall today to prevent further chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 100 police officers were called to King of Prussia Mall early on Saturday morning for crowd control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14988,69,71,70,86486],"class_list":["post-194359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-king-of-prussia-mall","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-upper-merion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}