STOCKTON- On December 26th over 200 people, mostly believed to be youth on winter break, brawled at the Weberstown Mall in a 3rd consecutive annual event. Police had to establish a perimeter and shut down both mall spanning two entire blocks and involving dozens of stores who rely on the holidays to make sales goals.
In the midst of the melee a car with a family visiting from Reno, Nevada was trying to leave and became the focus of the violence. According to an interview with Fox 40 the women said:
“‘Listen, here’s the situation: I have a 4-month-old baby, a handicapped grandma and some of my other family members in the car that are very young, impressionable and already have trauma,’ Rohrer recalled saying. ‘Can you guys just please let us through? That’s all we’re trying to do.’
During the frustrating scene, Rohrer’s mother, Kalea, honked the horn and that’s when the group turned.
‘Oh, well, who do you think you are? You’re not going to honk at us. I’ll bust the windows out your car,’ Ariana said, repeating what she said the group told them.
Ariana said she was then targeted by the group. Kalea said she tried to save her daughter but she also found herself in the thick of it.
‘I exited my vehicle. Obviously, I’m gonna protect my 15-year-old because these people they think they’re so big and bad, you go after a kid,’ Kalea said.
While the teen and her mom were pummeled, they said someone tried to steal their car. Inside the car were Ariana’s baby and grandmother, who tried to stop the theft.”
Several videos of the melee and crowd surfaced, but these are the first time video of the attack on the family has come to light. To date the District Attorney Tori Verber, Chief of Police Eric Jones, City Manager, Mayor Michael Tubbs or city leadership or mall management have not commented on the attack or why precautionary measures were not taken for an impending incident that was widely publicized on social media and had two previous years of similar outcomes on the same day of the year. Despite the attack taking place within full view of dozens of Stockton police officers just feet away (as seen in the video) no arrests were made.
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These are not children, they are animals. Look at them howling like chimps and jumping around like one. Some zoo are missing their pets. Surprising cops couldn’t do anything, that is because we should have called animal control instead.
This is beyond fucked up!! All these kids ganged up on the mother and daughter, stomping on them over and over again, and no one is around to help. Had it been me, I seriously would not had gotten out of my car, risked getting my windows smashed, as they threatened her, and slowly pushed my way through the crowd, even if it meant hitting them. Fuck that, I ain’t getting beat on by a bunch of little wanna be bad asses.
These kids think they’re so cool. Years from now they will think they’re still cool as they buy prime rib from Costco with their EBT cards and enjoy free health care on the working folk. The mall has amazing cameras. I’m sure they have better footage. The real blame goes out to security and the police that have their own parking spots right where this took place. Had they done their jobs the crowd might have not grown so big.
No wonder why you see all these hoodlums and protest happening around the world crying and pleading for justice and saying black lives matter .. This filthy actions of unhuman animals should all be locked up where they belong in cages ..makes me sick to my stomach seeing this crap:.
Wow no respect to that poor family what is stockton combing to i want to see what the people that run stockton are going to do to help that family!!!!!
If I saw any of my children involved in this mess, I would know that I screwed up as a parent! Whatever happened to empathy, right & wrong, civility?! There needs to be arrests made & there needs to be consequences for their actions, not excuses!!
What the heck is this world coming to. cant even go to the mall and you and your teen daughter get beat up and then try to steal the car with grandmother and baby in it. Come on I’m sure you know these kids. report them
THIS IS A DISCRASE, THE TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN OUR CITY ARE SO IMMATURE, DISRESPECTFUL, RUDE , AND OUT OF CONTROL. I BLAME THE PARENTS, IT STARTS AT HOME. RATHER THAN BEING FRIENDS WITH YOUR KIDS YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR PARENTS . IF YOU WOULD HAVE E TAUGHT SELF RESPECT AND RESPECTING OTHERS , NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE EVEN TAKEN PLACE. I BELIEVE THE TEENS WHO DID THIS SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AS WELL AS THEIR PARENTS . THATS PART OF THE ISSUE AS WELL , NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR BAD BEHAVIOR, TOO MANY RULES AND GUIDELINES AND ISSUES WHEN IT COMES TO PARENTS A D HOW WE ARE ALLOWED TO PARENT AND RAISE OUR CHILDREN WITHOUT BEING IN FEAR OF SOMEONE CALLING IT ABUSE. WELL I WILL CONTINUE TO RAISE MY CHILDREN WITH OLD FASHIONED VALUES , RESPECT UR SELF AND OTHERS , WHEN YOU DO WRONG TO SOMEONE , APOLOGIZE AND MEAN IT, IF YOU MAKE A CHOICE GOOD OR BAD THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ACTIONS , ITS UP TO THEM AS TO WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE , GOOD CHOICE , POSITIVE OUTCOME , BAD CHOICE , BAD OUTCOME (DISCIPLINE AS I SEE NECESSARY DEPENDING ON THE ACTION, YES IF I HAVE TO SPANK MY CHILD IF THATS HOW I CHOOSE TO DISCIPLINE MY CHILD I WILL) , MY METHOD IS MY OWN TO CARRY OUT AND MUST BE EFFECTIVE , BECAUSE NONE OF MY CHILDREN ARE IN THIS VIDEO NOR WILL YOU EVER SEE THEM IN ONE , I PROMISE YOU THIS . THEY WOULDNT EVEN DARE ! STOCKTON POLICE SHOULD HAVE STEPPED IN FOR SURE DURING THIS ATTACK , WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY DOING JUST ALLOWING THE TEENS TO DO THIS ? CHIEF OF POLICE MISSED THE MARK ON THIS AND MAYOR TUBBS YOU NEED TO WORK ON HOME , THE CITY OF STOCKTON AND THESE BAD ASS DISRESPECTFUL YOUTH AND CLEAN UP OUR SITUATION IN STOCKTON , INSTEAD OF WAISTING MONEY ON BARS , ALCOHOL AND LAS VEGAS. YOUR A YOUNG MAYOR WITH A CHILD THAT IS GOING TO GROW UP IN THIS CITY HOPEFULLY YOU FIX THINGS BEFORE YOUR CHILD GROWS UP IN T5BIS CRAZINESS. THIS WAS SO BAD AND THE FAMILY SHOULD SUE THE CITY, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE PARENTS OF EACH AND EVERY TEEN IN THIS VIDEO, I WOULD .
Is that intended to be racial? I’d be the first to admit that this was wrong in so many ways. As someone raised in Stockton all my life I must say it’s always been a tough town to grow up in. I believe everybody must come together as a whole to defeat violance as a whole and quit blaming tubs for everything. Stockton was this way before he was ever in office. The people need to do there part by promoting love and respect to one another. All you youngsters out there need to get a dictionary and look up those words.