Chaotic footage captured a massive group of rowdy kids brawling with police officers outside a Bronx mall on their day off Monday — prompting cops to cuff “multiple juveniles.”
Just after 2 p.m. on Presidents’ Day, police responded to a 911 call about a crowd control condition at the Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, according to the NYPD.
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.
Video posted to social media 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.
Other youngsters — who had the day off from school for Presidents’ Day — were spotted whipping out their cellphones to film the chaos.
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.
The scene at the mall — which features over 150 stores — remained active into Monday evening. An investigation into the incident remains ongoing, cops said.
