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California mall to require unaccompanied teens to wear ID lanyards after large brawl

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A California shopping mall will require unaccompanied minors to wear identification tags following a wild brawl involving hundreds of people over cheap movie tickets. 

The Moreno Valley Mall, in Southern California, plans to implement the change after multiple fights broke out on Sunday during National Cinema Day, where the local movie theater was offering $4 movie tickets, FOX Los Angeles reported.

Viral video of the fights shows people beating each other in the middle of the crowded mall as hundreds tried to take advantage of the deal, leading police to shut down the building.

“We would like to remind you that the mall security is not a babysitting service, and it is the responsibility of parents to raise their children to be respectful to others and to compose themselves accordingly when out in public,” a statement from the mall reads.

“In light of today’s events, we will be forced to go back to the drawing board with regard to unattended youth at our property.” 

The mall’s new policy will require kids who are at the mall unaccompanied after 5 p.m. to wear lanyards containing their names and parents’ contact information, the Press-Enterprise reported.

It remains unclear when the new requirement will go into effect — or how exactly it will be enforced. 

Hundreds of people were at the mall because the movie theater was offering $4 movie tickets as part of National Cinema Day, FOX Los Angeles reported. KTLA 5
No weapons were used during the brawl, mall management said. KTLA 5
“We would like to remind you that the mall security is not a babysitting service, and it is the responsibility of parents to raise their children to be respectful to others and to compose themselves accordingly when out in public,” a statement from the mall reads. KTLA 5
“In light of today’s events, we will be forced to go back to the drawing board with regard to unattended youth at our property,” the statement continued. KTLA 5

The owners of the mall did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.  

The wild brawls in Moreno Valley were not an isolated incident, as another violent fight involving a group of teens broke out the same day in Torrance, just south of LA. 

Shocking video footage of that incident shows a group of teens chasing a boy and pummeling him to the ground before an adult jumps in to save the victim, KTLA reports. 

In response to Sunday’s events, unaccompanied minors will be required to wear lanyards that contain their names and their parents’ contact information if they are in the mall unaccompanied after 5 p.m. on weekdays or anytime on weekends, the Press-Enterprise reported. Getty Images
The mall eventually shut down after authorities were called to help security break up the fights. Google St View

Meanwhile, on the East Coast, 13 teens were arrested in a Boston shopping center when two large fights, involving as many as 400 people, erupted outside the local AMC theaters.   

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox directly blamed the incident on the crowd of unsupervised minors who flooded the theater to buy $4 tickets. 

“I can’t think of anything good that happens when you have that many young people that age with no supervision or guidance whatsoever coming into the city,” Cox said in a statement. 

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