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9 Teens Arrested After Attack at Illinois Six Flags Theme Park Leaves Family Hospitalized
KTLA5 ^ | September 27, 2017 | Tribune Media Wire

Posted on 09/27/2017 4:16:50 PM PDT by Main Street

Suburban Illinois police are asking for witnesses to speak out after an attack at a Six Flags theme park near Chicago left a family hospitalized.

Three family members were attacked by a group of nine people – one adult and eight teens – Saturday night around 9 p.m. during Fright Fest, the Lake County News Sun reported.

Gurnee police officials told the newspaper the attack happened “after members of the larger group apparently cut in line and were using foul language when the family exchanged words with them.”

Police say the family — a 51-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy — were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The altercation began with a discussion, and then the suspects allegedly hit the 12-year-old, according to police. The father tried to pull the attacker off his son and was knocked to the ground. Then, the group, “surrounded him and hit him with punches and kicks,” The Lake County News Sun reported.

The wife tried to help her husband and son, and was also attacked.

“It did not appear that anyone immediately came to their aid, but numerous people reached out to Six Flags employees as well as calling 911 to get them help,” police told the paper.

Police arrested the nine suspects, who range in age from 15 to 18. Police are asking for any more witnesses to contact them.

“We urge anyone with video information to come forward,” Gurnee police officer Daniel Ruth said. Footage from the parks’ security cameras has been “inconclusive,” police told The Lake County News Sun.

“We believe there were more witnesses that did not come forward, and any video would be useful to the investigation,” Ruth said. “We urge anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward and make a statement.”

Six Flags Great America said in a statement to The Lake County News Sun:

“The safety of our guests and team members is our top priority and we have zero tolerance for reckless behavior. The perpetrators were taken into custody by local authorities…. This was an isolated incident and Gurnee police along with our own security personnel responded promptly.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackviolence; crime; illinois; savages; sixflags; teens; thuglife
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To: jonascord

Dats da plan Jonascord !!


61 posted on 09/27/2017 6:48:10 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: Waverunner

“Fear the Amish” says the man in the photo with a fake beard!


62 posted on 09/27/2017 6:49:19 PM PDT by Puckster ( "Neanderthals Rule"...we don't need no stinking homo's, homosapiens are a pain in the arse!)
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To: Main Street

Paging Colin Flaherty...


63 posted on 09/27/2017 6:51:30 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Main Street

Six Flags over Georgia was removed from the List of Places I Will Go some years ago.


64 posted on 09/27/2017 6:53:08 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Main Street

I am sure BLM and the NFL will be right on it.


65 posted on 09/27/2017 6:54:20 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: shibumi

This is a Kneecapping

66 posted on 09/27/2017 6:58:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Autonomous User
I posted this on my facebook.

"Some of my best friends are kneegoers."

Thanks, Anonymous User. You're my hero!!

67 posted on 09/27/2017 7:41:24 PM PDT by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Main Street

This happens in every amusement park in the nation. Some “people” ain’t about standin’ in no line.


68 posted on 09/27/2017 8:31:56 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: yldstrk

Kinda like illegal aliens


69 posted on 09/27/2017 8:32:24 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: shibumi

Weird Al is freakishly sexy.

There.

I said it.


70 posted on 09/27/2017 9:15:36 PM PDT by Salamander (Why so unforgiving? And why so cold? Been a long time crossing the bridge of sighs....)
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To: Main Street

I was subjected to this gang tactic a Chicago area park when I was a kid. Probably a good thing I held my tongue.


71 posted on 09/27/2017 10:40:57 PM PDT by Barnacle (How long before the NFL files Chapter 11?)
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To: yldstrk

And, no one in the crowd helped the family? Disgusting! It is long past time that these punks need to be beaten to a pulp.


72 posted on 09/28/2017 1:56:03 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: Autonomous User

Knee-going negros?


73 posted on 09/28/2017 5:35:06 AM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Main Street

The Park has to know these incidents will shut it down.


74 posted on 09/28/2017 5:39:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Autonomous User

Love it, just a suggestion make it one word. KneeGoers. I think more people may get it that way.


75 posted on 09/28/2017 5:43:03 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: MomwithHope
Love it, just a suggestion make it one word. KneeGoers. I think more people may get it that way.

"Oh, I get it!"

76 posted on 09/28/2017 5:44:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Main Street

Teens....mediaspeak for feral blacks.


77 posted on 09/28/2017 5:46:44 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Main Street
I don't espouse unnecessary violence but in cases like this, were it me, I'd have deployed and perforated as many of these dark-skinned miscreants as my magazine would allow. It has to stop, and sadly, it won't until a CCW holder steps up and "does the needful". I'm getting really sick of this shiite. It will end badly for these types of attackers.

They have called the tune. Soon it will be time to pay the fiddler.

78 posted on 09/28/2017 6:41:38 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Autonomous User

Derbyshire had a rule that addressed this exact scenario.

I try to counsel my wife on this stuff; she still doesn’t get it.

She thinks that once she is on the ground, they will show magnanimity and cease kicking her in the head until she is dead.

I told her that to apply her morals to savages puts her at a great, great disadvantage.


79 posted on 09/28/2017 8:37:09 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: Main Street

Chicago.

They’ll be on the street in no time.


80 posted on 09/28/2017 8:49:49 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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