More than 100 fight at mall theater www.privateofficer.com
Toledo Ohio, Dec. 28, 2007
Several Toledo police officers quelled a fight Tuesday night involving more than 100 people that began inside a movie theater in Westfield Franklin Park mall, police said.
No one was arrested and there were no reports of injuries, police said.
Toledo police Officer Steve Skeels, who works part-time security at the mall, was outside the No. 5 theater about 11 p.m. when someone told him people were fighting inside, police said.
He and another security officer went into the theater, saw people running, and directed the crowd to the exits, police said. More than 100 people began running down the escalators and the steps leading out to the parking lot, police said.
A few minutes later, the crowd started running back toward the mall.
Officer Skeels observed several people fighting and reported that an unknown male began swinging his fists.
Officer Skeels fired a Taser at the man, who then ran into the crowd that had headed back toward the parking lot, police said.
More than 20 Toledo police units were called to assist, a police report said.
The incident occurred about a year after a series of fights involving teenagers, including one that escalated to chair-throwing in the mall's food court.
Police and the mall implemented new security measures after one of those altercations and credited those measures with squelching a Jan. 12 dispute outside the mall's cinemas.
No one was arrested and there were no reports of injuries, police said.
Toledo police Officer Steve Skeels, who works part-time security at the mall, was outside the No. 5 theater about 11 p.m. when someone told him people were fighting inside, police said.
He and another security officer went into the theater, saw people running, and directed the crowd to the exits, police said. More than 100 people began running down the escalators and the steps leading out to the parking lot, police said.
A few minutes later, the crowd started running back toward the mall.
Officer Skeels observed several people fighting and reported that an unknown male began swinging his fists.
Officer Skeels fired a Taser at the man, who then ran into the crowd that had headed back toward the parking lot, police said.
More than 20 Toledo police units were called to assist, a police report said.
The incident occurred about a year after a series of fights involving teenagers, including one that escalated to chair-throwing in the mall's food court.
Police and the mall implemented new security measures after one of those altercations and credited those measures with squelching a Jan. 12 dispute outside the mall's cinemas.
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