This past Memorial Day, more than 1,000 teens swarmed the blocks around Lake Michigan in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. A resident described the scene: “Hundreds of people were walking and running down our street, jumping on top of cars, twerking, smoking blunts.” One group twerked on the top of a city bus.
At about 9 pm, the Chicago Police Department closed Lake Shore Drive. As sirens wailed, the Hyde Park resident armed himself with bear spray to retrieve something from his car. An hour later, a gunman shot three teens a block from the resident’s home. The suspect remains at large, though police made 13 arrests for illegal gun possession, battery of an officer, and other felonies.
Seems like an insurrection.
Another MASSIVE teen takeover in Hazel Crest, about 25 miles south of the Chicago Loop, with hundreds of teens causing havoc in a residential neighborhood by blocking streets and fighting.
One resident who was livestreaming the takeover pleaded with parents: “Come get your… pic.twitter.com/vdU6yBYUcE
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