Victoria's Scuffle

At a shopping mall in front of a Victoria's Secret store, a ghetto mêlée broke out.  What was particularly ghetto about this one was that a mother temporarily left her child (toddler) to engage in the fracas.

Here is the fight in front of the store.

Below is the toddler riding in a store-provided child cart (shaped like a little red car) being pushed by his mother toward the scuffle.  The fight appears to be composed of exclusively teenage girls.

Above, you can see one of the victims (?) lying prostrate on the ground (in a hot pink top).

As the victim gets herself up off the ground, the mother of the toddler kicks her as she (the mother) walks by pushing her toddler in the cart. Ghetto Level: 10

The child is left alone for about half a minute as the mother (red arrow) continues to fight.

The mother returns (red arrow), then picks up her child from the cart and exits the mall.

One gets a better sense of all this if they watch the video:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/toddler-caught-middle-brawl-front-144735811.html


The title of the news article is somewhat misleading, because it implies a fight broke out around the toddler, when in fact he was brought toward the brawl by his mom/caretaker.


On a personal note, I went to my local Target Store recently. A group of teenagers (who also happened to be african-american) strolled in right in front of me. I could tell by their 'swagger' and the dubiousness of their character and comments that they were up to no good (not to mention the fact that they didn't seem interested in shopping for anything).  About 20 minutes later, having made my purchase, I walk out of the store to see said teenagers (both boys and girls) engaged in a fight on the parking lot near the entrance.  I took no pleasure in being proven right.  I just shook my head.