NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Violent, thieving mobs have been making headlines across the country for the past few years, and now they have hit New York City.
And Maurice Dubois reported in this CBS 2 investigation, the teen mobs have left neighborhoods worried as businesses take matters into their own hands.
Judson Bennett, 78, recently ran into a violent group of teens often described with the once-benign term flash mob as he made his daily trip to buy a newspaper at his favorite news team.
Im approaching the newsstand, and then suddenly there is a tremendous force behind me, Bennett said.
Bennett ended up with a broken arm.
I was taken completely by surprise, he said.
In New York and across the country, the mobs of kids 20, 30, 40 or more appear out of nowhere and suddenly charge a newsstand or convenience store.
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