Was Mall of America 'Riot' Related to Machine Gun Kelly's August Escapade?

COMMENTARY | Have you ever been to the Mall of America? I have taken my family there and it is truly an amazing place with five gigantic floors of events and stores. The Mall of America is the last place you would expect to encounter trouble, dangerous trouble, and yet that is exactly what happened on the day after Christmas, according to Elizabeth Flock of the Washington Post.

The Mall of America is located in Bloomington, Minnesota. Once again this is not a city in which you would expect trouble.

This is a very difficult story to explain. The day after Christmas is equivalent to the day after Thanksgiving referred to as "Black Friday." Black Friday is the first official Christmas shopping day after Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas allows people to return gifts they don't want or wish to exchange. Logic then tells us the trouble at the Mall of America was because of too many people at one place at one time.

However then something new is thrown into the mix. Two rappers named Drake and Lil' Wayne could have been at the mall and triggered the riot, according to the New York Daily News.

Flock goes on to use an Associated Press report to more completely explain the event and ultimately provides a video by CNN.

And, that would seem to be the end of the story. Either things got out of control after Christmas or some celebrities showed up the wrong time at the Mall of America.

It's really no big deal, right? No one was killed or badly injured.

But then something odd is brought up at the end of Flock's report. Back in August rapper Machine Gun Kelly as reported by MTV was arrested for organizing a "riot" at a mall.

Can we chalk this story up to a "post-Christmas" melee? Was it an accidental appearance of two rappers or even the thought of an appearance? Was it a "fight" between two factions or was it something that followed in the footsteps of Machine Gun Kelly?

I'm just wondering aloud if these events are related in the sense that the rappers are using boredom of teens to cause trouble.