By Police1 Staff
PHILADELPHIA — Officials say four juveniles have been arrested in connection with flash mob-style attacks on Temple University’s campus that left students, police officers, and a police animal hurt.
Around 20 to 100 young people walked around the campus on the night of October 21, looking to cause chaos, authorities told NBC10.
Police said students were punched and kicked, and one police officer was tossed to the ground. Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department, Temple University police, and SEPTA police responded to the incident, according to the news station.
As many as six Temple University students were hurt, along with a university police officer and a Philadelphia police horse.
One unidentified student told the university’s news site she was attacked by two juveniles while walking with her boyfriend.
“I somehow got to the other side of Oxford Street by the time they got me to the ground. I remember shoes coming for my face and after that I heard other kids from the group saying ‘Yo chill, yo chill, it’s just a girl’ and they pulled my attackers off me,” she told the publication.
A 15-year-old suspect punched a police horse in the head, according to police. The mounted officer had been dispatched to help disperse as many as 100 kids at that corner.
Philadelphia police, Temple police and the university are all investigating the incidents.