This is the shocking moment a massive brawl broke out in a California pizza restaurant over a missing iPhone that turned out to have been in the lost and found the whole time.
Police were called to John’s Incredible Pizza Company in Newark’s NewPark Mall on Saturday night after violence erupted.
It broke out after a girl missing her phone had approached a group to see if they’d seen it but quickly descended into chaos, with video showing two large groups of people exchanging blows and screaming at each other.
Newark police officers had to call in officers from the Fremont Police Department for help because of the size of the brawl, NBC Bay Arena reports.
Credit: Facebook/Nicole Davis
A massive brawl broke out in a California pizza restaurant over a missing iPhone that turned out to have been in the lost and found the whole time
Police said the fight was eventually broken up and only minor injuries were reported. No arrests were made.
Later, as officers began to investigate the incident, the restaurant’s manager found the missing phone had been turned into the lost and found hours earlier.
The girl who lost her phone used the Find My iPhone app to get to the location of the brawl, but the device was actually a floor above in the lost and found.
Her mother claimed they were attacked for just asking a group if they’d seen the phone.
Newark police officers had to call in officers from the Fremont Police Department for help because of the size of the brawl
Police said the massive fight was eventually broken up and only minor injuries were reported
Drake Lynn, who works at the restaurant, told NBC that he saw two young women arguing before it escalated into a physical fight.
‘Their boyfriends, or males who they were with, backed them up, and then they started throwing punches, and then their friends started throwing punches, and they started throwing punches at other parties that were there,’ Lynn said.
‘We would have definitely found the cellphone, if they would have just given us a little bit of time and let us do our jobs instead of throwing punches.’
Nicole Davis shared footage of the brawl on Facebook, writing: ‘Took the kids to John’s Incredible Pizza in Fremont tonight and it really went down in the buffet line smh.’
At least 20 people were involved in the fight, the woman who recorded footage of it said
At least 20 people were involved in the fight, she told SF Gate.
‘It was a horrible experience,’ she said.
‘I made sure I protected my kids until they cleared the way so we can get out, but I just hated the fact they did this at a family establishment.’
She added: ‘It makes me sick that my kids had to see that and all the kids that were scared crying.’