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Boy targeted by pack of teens in Sydney shopping mall melee

Police search for a group of six to eight teens after they hurled chairs in a food court brawl, with no injuries reported but shoppers endangered, authorities said.

  • On Wednesday at about 5.50pm, a brawl erupted in the food court of Broadway Shopping Centre on Bay Street, Glebe, when a group of teenage boys confronted another boy.
  • The confrontation escalated when the teens began throwing metal chairs and stools, with about six teens hurling seats toward the escalators and some falling to a lower level.
  • TikTok footage from Brooke Ellen shows the incident, with her clip viewed more than one million times as shoppers and families taking Santa photos were alarmed, one bystander struck and a woman dodging a thrown stool.
  • NSW Police and Leichhardt Police Area Command have commenced an investigation and are searching for the youths filmed hurling chairs, noting no injuries were reported and both groups left before police arrived.
  • A bystander reported security `was standing next to me recording`, prompting scrutiny as viewers warned the thrown furniture `could kill a child`.
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Sydney Morning Herald broke the news in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
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