Daily London
Vision has emerged of dozens of youths shoving each other and throwing punches and kicks at Mordialloc Beach around 8.30pm yesterday.
It’s the latest in a series of incidents on the same beach, after hundreds of teens stormed and trashed a nearby Woolworths on Wednesday before clashing with police on the water’s edge.
Elsewhere in the city, police swooped on three young men at a train station in Chelsea.
One of the men had tried to steal alcohol from a liquor store, police allege.
The other two refused to move on and resisted police.
One police officer was injured in the altercation.
On the other side of the city, knives were found stashed in bushes following a brawl in Altona.
Police were called to reports of a brawl at a beachside reserve around 5.30pm yesterday.
A 16-year-old boy was charged with drug offences.
He has been bailed to appear before a childrens’ court at a later date.
Two 16-year-old boys and a 19-year-old man were interviewed by police and are expected to be charged via summons.
The investigation into the incident remains ongoing.
A group of almost 1200 children were arrested nearly 7100 times across the year.
“That particular group drives some of the crime types that cause significant harm in the community,” Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Robert Hill said.
Hill yesterday vowed to identify every teenager involved in Wednesday’s beach riot.
He urged parents to turn their children in if they attended the beach party.
“It’s better that you proactively contact police rather than waiting for us to knock on your door in about two or three weeks’ time, if not earlier,” Hill said.
Wednesday’s Mordialloc brawl saw the riot squad, water police and the police AirWing deployed to the gathering.
“I’ve called them a brat pack, you know, young people terrifying those within a shopping precinct and also conducting themselves on the beach, on the foreshore area, attacking our police members,” Hill said.
