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On 26 December 2015, a large group of mostly young people was involved in multiple separate skirmishes that coalesced into large-scale chaos at the mall in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a town just outside of Louisville. No one was arrested, however: instead, the assistant chief of the St. Matthew Police Department told us, officers were only concerned with restoring order and returning a large crowd of mostly underage brawlers to their homes. The story was re-shared around the web in late December 2016, with the viral web site Real Cool Video posting the story with a headline claiming that no one was arrested because the unruly crowd was exclusively white: How Many Arrests When 2000 White People Fight at a Mall? ZERO! Black People Are UPSET at the 'Double Standard': Police, however, say the incident involved an ethnically mixed crowd of people. When we asked about the ethnic make-up of the persons involved in the brawl, Major David Beyer, the St. Matthews assistant police chief, told us It was a mixture of people and added: Available video from the incident is too fuzzy to make out which persons were actually involved in the brawl and what their ethnicities were, and because no arrests were made there is no paper trail of the races of the participants. Beyer said the St. Matthews mall generally attracts diverse clientele from the Louisville metropolitan area. No one was arrested, he said, because the priority was to stop the melee, which media reports at the time say resulted in the mall and surrounding businesses being temporarily shut down: Some of those involved in the incident were children: No one was seriously injured as a result of the melee. Beyer told us the mall has a new policy in place which limits the days and hours that minors are allowed to be in the mall without a chaperone over the age of 21.
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