Two people arrested after Peoria Chuck E. Cheese brawl

Heart Of Illinois ABC ^ | 3/28/2022 | India Afriyie

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PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) - Chaos at the Peoria Chuck E. Cheese where food, drinks, and punches were thrown.

Police said one adult and one juvenile were arrested at that location and the night before 6 people were arrested at another fight at the Landmark Recreation Center.

Residents said the fighting concerned them and made them rethink where and when they came out.

“I find that I wouldn’t go to the mall at night time cause I know there was a lot of fights there too,” Mapleton resident Lisa Sweet said.

“We want to go places with our families and not have to worry about things like that happening,” Peoria resident,” Jeabria Lester said.

Both of the weekend fights had something in common; they happened at places where children frequent leaving some asking witnessing these fights affected our youth.

“For the children who that is not a typical part of their experience, those types of situations can be very overwhelming for them,” Clinical psychologist Barbara Toohill said. “For the children who maybe have been exposed to more of those types of situations in their lives, unfortunately it contributes to some desensitization.”

Toohill said any violence could negatively impact children, but violence in places that are expected to be safe poses an additional threat to mental health.

“For any of us, if no place was safe, we would all develop just always being on edge, always carrying some tension.” Toohill said.

Police Chief Eric Echevarria said he was disappointed with the fights and the adults that fought and recorded it.

“In our community they need to be responsible for what’s happening,” Echevarria said. “Is Chuck E. Cheese the place now that we need to be walking through every day and making sure that people are acting accordingly?”

[SIDENET]

Just wait until they’re fighting over food.

[gundog]

Cheese is racist.

[Clutch Martin]

Cheap eats, like a bear to honey

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

There are literally hundreds of these videos out there, but no one is speaking out against them. If a Republican were to give a speech denouncing this, he or she would be instantly crucified and forced to apologize.

I guess blacks will have to learn the hard way. Again.

[dynachrome]

https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/

[skeeter]

Chuck E Cheese wings are to kill fo.

[EvilCapitalist]

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

[dfwgator]

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

What do they think this is, The Academy Awards?

[ncdrumr]

Yep, I wouldn’t go to any of those places (and add Walmart to that list), particularly at night. It’s a shame. Landmark and the mall were a lot of fun back in the day.

[printhead]

Groid, as in negroid.

[gundog]

Dining top: avoid restaurants that have a rat for a mascot.

[dfwgator]

Avoid the Groid!

[gundog]

A search will reveal all.

[Penelope Dreadful]

The same people doing the same thing over and over again!

[FLNittany]

Chuck E Cheese is a place where divorced couples exchange kids for the weekend - or have kid’s birthday parties. This is why there are so many amish uprisings there.

[nascarnation]

I didn’t realize that many Amish were married to begin with.

[SamAdams76]

I remember the good old days of Chuck E Cheese in the 1990s, when my young children clamored to be taken there. Back then, the biggest annoyances was the cardboard pizza, the incredibly cheesy stage show with the horrible music, and of course, the cheap toys your child got after cashing in thirty thousand paper tickets that would break in the car before you got home.

Days of innocence.

[Skooz]

No impulse control.
Good thing their kids were there to witness it. Keep the traditions alive.