Kalamazoo streets ‘saturated’ with people dancing on cars during X-Train party

MLive.com ^ | 21 August 2021 9:24 a.m. | Cole Waterman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

KALAMAZOO, MI — An X-Train party in Kalamazoo saw police trying to disperse a crowd of people dancing on cars and fighting in the streets.

The night of Friday, Aug. 20, and into the early morning Saturday, Kalamazoo Public Safety officers responded to mobile nuisance parties, or X-Trains as they’re colloquially known. These pop-up parties are usually organized over social media at locations around the city, often starting around 2-3 a.m. and lasting until just before sunrise.

Friday night’s initial crowd complaint occurred in the 500 block of Ada Street but progressed as the night wore on.

The areas around Ada Street and Woodbury Avenue and Florence Street and Burrell Avenue were “saturated with vehicles [and] people dancing on top of cars, blocking roadways, and fighting,” police said.

Officers began impounding vehicles participating in the party and impeding traffic, police said, adding this was done only after officers gave participants numerous verbal warnings over a loudspeaker to peacefully disperse.

During officers’ attempts to restore peace, someone threw a glass bottle at them, striking a patrol vehicle’s windshield, police said.

In a separate incident, a person fought with officers during an arrest, police said.

[cquiggy]

Party,loot,rob,and rape all night.
Sleep all day.
No job to go to.
Work what’s that ?

[bigbob]

Wonder if Antifa will require showing a VAX card to get into the next riot?

[BudgieRamone]

I lived near Westnedge and Kilgore, almost to Portage. Thats in the North part of the city...where I never went.

[Joe Brower]

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

This phrase is as old as the hills, and for good reason.

[Trumplican]

Hillary was right - they are predators. and Joe Biden was right, it’s a racial jungle.

[dfwgator]

And there are more idle hands with each passing day.

[PGR88]

deys jus celebratin’

[SecondAmendment]

[x]

I got the Wu Flu in Kalamazoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo ...

[I want the USA back]

Since they doesn’t has to get up and go to work, they has the time to dance and party. Thank you democrats.

[Old Yeller]

Oh no they dint!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#12: Sometimes I think the cops should ditch the tasers and just go with bananas."

LOL. I heard fried chicken legs might work too.

[dfwgator]

Sometimes I think the cops should ditch the tasers and just go with bananas.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hunter? Is that you? Gorgeous work there, dude.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Try as I might, I cannot find a single photo of the X-Train parties in Kalamazoo. That’s really odd.

[Don W]

Found one. It's useless for any identification purpose.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Weird, huh? Everybody has a phone and everybody shoots videos and stills all the time…but no party-goers film this?

[cherry]

I’m guessing I’m just an old out of touch racist white person because I don’t what the heck they’re referring to....