Posted on 04/18/2019 7:21:02 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Nearly 30 young people were arrested in downtown Chicago Wednesday night when fights broke out as hundreds of students and about 200 officers wound through bustling streets.
The large groups of young people, many of them high school students, moved through the Loop and the Near North Side, according to Chief of Patrol Fred Waller, speaking at the corner of State and Lake streets after 9 p.m. “The challenge is to keep the public safety,” he said.
Twenty males and six females — all juveniles — were taken into custody, most of them charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and released to their parents, a police spokesman said Thursday morning.
Waller said there were probably about 500 teens traveling through the city. Shortly after 9 p.m., police lined the middle of State Street outside of the Chicago Theatre. More than a dozen officers on bikes surrounded the teens and blared their sirens. About 15 minutes later, a large group bolted back to the corner of State and Lake streets as two women posed for a photo in front of the Chicago Theatre marquee.
“When they run like that, someone starts a fight,” Waller said.
Police strategy was a lot of tolerance, talking to the kids and moving the crowd along to public transportation, Waller said.
“And people who were completely disobeying the law, they had to be arrested,” he said.
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Amish field trip ?
“Young people”
The new euphemism?
Damn...if only the Amish had stayed in Lancaster county in Pennsylvania. /s
Chicago the city of feral youth created by the Democrat voter Plantation plan.
Only going to get worse. Summer is coming.
edited for accuracy.
Good to see young people outside enjoying some fresh air and interacting with the community.
Only going to get worse, because it’s spreading, exponentially.
There’s pictures of teens in the article.
I’m guessing that they were all triggered by two guys wearing MAGA hats.
Looked through the 7 photos...Only white people I saw were police....
i was just there on monday...science museum, at the behest of my kids...passing thru the region.
that city is a craphole.
could not get out of illannoy fast enough.
I have a personal policy of leaving nothing in illannoy except exhaust fumes and urine.
had to violate that on monday, unfortunately.
Police strategy was a lot of tolerance, talking to the kids and moving the crowd along to public transportation, Waller said.
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They need space to destroy, said the Baltimore mayor.
To show support of ‘juicy fruit’?
The do dat tribe is restless
Rumspringa can get out of hand, yannow.
We are talking about Chicagro. Home of Obama and his gutter trash wife
The guy with the blue jacket seems to be desperately looking for someone to lend him a belt.
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