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.

[Veggie Todd]

I’m guessing I don’t have to look.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The natives are restless.

[LIConFem]

Napalm.

[Migraine]

You thinking monochrome, rainbow, tooty-fruity, what?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Forget it, Jake. It’s Kalamazoo.

[dainbramaged]

Sounds like a bongo party put on by the Kalamazoo chapter of the VFW (Very Few Whites).

[catnipman]

what, no pics?

[dynachrome]

I thought half-whitmer had locked Michigan down again.

[jmacusa]

No you don’t. Those whacky Amish.

[Bayard]

No, she’s not going to lock it down again unless the states case numbers reflect serious conditions. Hospitals are not at capacity.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#8: what, no pics?

Let me paint you a picture:

[Libloather]

Superspreader event.

[phoneman08]

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

[dfwgator]

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

With their children at their feet.

[dfwgator]

I’ve got a gal there.

[dfwgator]

Putting the ‘Zoo’ in Kalamazoo!

[dfwgator]

Surprised they haven’t changed the name to “Kamalazoo”.

[windcliff]

lol

[ronniesgal]

in before the bleeding hearts start wagging fingers about racism.