Teens Ransack Restaurant With Customers Inside Causing Tens of Thousands in Damages

Teens Ransack Restaurant With Customers Inside Causing Tens of Thousands in Damages


A Queens, N.Y., restaurant was vandalized by a large group of teenagers on Saturday morning, and the suspects are still at large, according to a Wednesday report.

The manager of Fish Village reported that the group entered the establishment and started damaging it without uttering a word, according to WABC.

“He said he don’t know what happened, why they gonna do him like that. It feels scary,” manager Tony Hu noted through a translator, Fox News added.

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Video footage from inside the establishment captured the teenagers flipping tables, throwing chairs, and breaking dishes. The group was predominantly Asian, but some were Hispanic. Around 30 customers were present during the attack, and the restaurant estimates the damage to be around $20,000.

The group did not have any weapons visible, Fox News said, adding that no one has been arrested yet in connection with the incident.

Crime in New York City has been rising steadily in recent years under one far-left, Democratic anti-police administration after another.

“Surges in robbery, burglary and other crimes drove a 22 percent increase in overall major crime in New York City last year compared with the year prior, despite a significant drop in shootings and murders,” The New York Times reported in early January. “Mayor Eric Adams, who campaigned on a promise to improve public safety, said at a news conference at Police Department headquarters that the city had made progress. He lauded the agency for its efforts to increase gun arrests and rid the five boroughs of illegal guns and drugs.”

Still, the mayor emphasized that the city needs to reduce the numbers of robberies, burglaries, and grand larcenies, which were among the categories that led to an increase in major crimes last year. In 2020, the city recorded 126,537 major crimes, compared to 103,388 in 2019. The mayor cited retail theft and subway safety as among his top priorities to address.

“We know we have more to do,” Mayor Adams, a former police captain, told reporters at the news conference. “New Yorkers must be safe based on the stats, and they must feel safe based on what they’re seeing. That is my obligation: to ensure that safety is felt.”

Christopher Herrmann, an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told the Times that — putting aside figures for murders and shootings — the overall picture painted by the 2022 statistics was that “crime is up in New York City, and it’s up quite a bit.”


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