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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Mutual of Omaha probably sponsored it.
Absolutely true!
Imagine how many youts are going to descend upon Chicago when they start getting their Guaranteed Universal Minimum Income for doing nothing.
Someone needs to explain to me the pants-at-the-knees trend among some “youths”. It doesn’t even look comfortable. Plus you need something to hold it even up that far, don’t you? SMH
Why arrest them?
The colored gals that run Chicago (Foxx and Lightfoot) will just dismiss and release.
Did EBT cards experience a glitch?
There’s no explaining idiocy.
There’s pictures of teens in the article.
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Are they like the screenshots from Beach Party and those other teen movies? Those kids can get rascally and get into shoving matches over who has the fastest car and who got invited to sit closer to some girl’s former boyfriend at the evening campfire.
In MAGA country?
Just a bunch of kids out to have a good time.
“The challenge is to keep the public safety,” he said.
Well that is a lie!
The challenge is to enforce the law without offended certain folks to the point that they will riot!
My kids live near Chicago. We visit several times a year. We have not been in Chicago since my first visit there in 1998, and I have no desire to.
“Good to see young people outside enjoying some fresh air and interacting with the community”.
Yeah, they were all out looking for any little old ladies that might need help crossing the street.
It can be explained quite easily with a bell curve.
I was told it has something to do with prison, where men wear their pants that way to um, solicit their wares. If that is true I don’t know why it is emulated.
Plus it looks stoooopid.
At one time in college I had three part time jobs (admittedly one was 6 hours a week). Happened to my wife at one time too with research jobs. I delivered campus mail daily including heaving big mail bags onto the stack in a semi and riding in back on the pile to the downtown post office. And selling and stocking LPs in a music department each night. Where did I get the energy?
I assume all these "teens" are working hard and then can finally rest and slack off with guaranteed income. Am I right?/s
Where is Daley when you need him.
At least one of his arms is occupied doing no harm holding up his pants.
YUTS!!
Yeah, they were all out looking for any little old ladies that might need help crossing the street.
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If the ladies’ purses were heavy the teens could hold them to lighten the load on their feet.
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