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More than 400 teenagers laid siege on a lakeside park in upstate New York during back-to-back broad daylight \u201cteen takeovers\u201d <\/a>\u2014 prompting security increases ahead of Memorial Day Weekend.<\/p>\n

Horrified parents and young children fled the Ontario Beach Park in Rochester on Sunday as a mob teeming with hundreds of unruly youths flooded the parking lot, WHAM <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

The brawlers milled around the parking lot and appeared to throw punches at random as several full-on fights broke out.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of teenagers swarmed a park in Rochester, New York on Sunday and Monday. WHEC TV<\/p>\n

Crowds gathered around each fistfight all while bystanders carefully steered their cars through the parking to reach an exit that wasn\u2019t blocked by the hooligans.<\/p>\n

Several teens were thrown onto the concrete and jumped on. Others were slammed against parked vehicles as the aggressors continued to wail on them, according to video footage obtained by WHEC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hours earlier, several brawling teenagers were ejected from the city\u2019s annual Lilac Festival at Highland Park \u2014 just 18 miles away from Ontario Beach., WHEC<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

The mob returned to Ontario Beach Park on Monday and started clashing again. Both throngs appeared to begin the night at the park\u2019s gazebo before inevitably spilling over into the parking lot, according to footage obtained by WHAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The violent \u201cteen takeovers\u201d were organized on social media. WHEC TV<\/p>\n

One person was arrested during the scuffle at the Lilac Festival, but no one was cuffed at Ontario Beach Park on either day, according to the Rochester Police Department. <\/p>\n

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans said at a Tuesday press conference that both takeovers were meticulously planned on social media down to an exact meetup time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at the post and they arrange to go up and fight, and then they want to take their phone out and they want to be cool, and then they want to push it to social media. And then you have people that pick it up,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n

Police broke up the fights, but no one was arrested. WHEC TV<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, they\u2019re not showing the kids that are out playing basketball. They\u2019re showing the kids that are coming to the beach to try to wreak havoc because they want to become social media famous. That\u2019s what this is about.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Rochester Police Department initially increased its patrols at the park when \u201cteen takeovers\u201d started cropping up<\/a> in 2020. The department said<\/a> it would be partnering with the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office and New York State Police to monitor the park over Memorial Day Weekend.<\/p>\n

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans condemned the brawls. News 8 WROC<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna be out here, there\u2019s gonna be a lot of police out here, a lot of law enforcement, and if you see anything that you\u2019re concerned about it, please let us know, because we can\u2019t see everything,\u201d Rochester Police Captain Nate Cornell said.<\/p>\n

Cities countrywide are trying to combat the relentless \u201cteen takeovers.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In Washigton, DC, federal prosecutors are leading efforts to charge rabble-rousing teens \u2014 and their parents. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re coming for you and we\u2019re coming for your parents,\u201d US Attorney Jeanine Pirro<\/a> declared. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 400 teenagers laid siege on a lakeside park in upstate New York during back-to-back broad daylight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":808832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,38937,43648,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,879,3981,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-808831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fights","tag-mad-brawls","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-rochester","tag-teens","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116604501277826513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}