Posted on 09/08/2020 5:10:00 AM PDT by Salman
(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A video posted to social media shows dozens of teenagers fighting, as well as shouting and running from police outside Gurnee Mills Friday night.
Latrisha Cole, who was parked at a nearby McDonald's, witnessed the incident and caught it on video. As of Saturday, the video has been viewed 15,000 times.
She said teens were at the mall trying to go to the movies, but the theater closed at 7 p.m. and they were told to leave the property.
"It was more of personal reasons with teens as to why they were fighting," Cole told WBBM. "Other fights broke out to protect sisters or cousins."
The fights escalated when police came out, shouting at the teens to go home.
"(It) caused kids to get more aggressive and the officers were unable to get control. Kids were calling and waiting for their rides but being forced to get off property, told they would get arrested if they went into the restaurants," she said. "I did see officers chase and grab kids slamming them against cars."
Cole posted a Facebook Live video that night urging parents to come pick up their kids and ended up driving several of the teens home in her van.
Detective Shawn Aylor, a public information officer for the Gurnee Police Department, said officers arrived to break up groups of small fights at the mall but no arrests were made and no injuries were reported.
The officer's main goal was to disperse the crowds and get kids to go home, Aylor said.
I hope they were wearing a mask. They could receive a death blow from the virus.
/Orwellspeak
Come out and play!
Escalate,escalate, escalate that’s all they know how to do, zero impulse control and no ability to reason things out.
The “best people”....
Mm-hm. But no video of that? Your cell phone ran out of film or something?
Not even gonna look cause I know already.
The article is dated September 5, a Saturday night, not last night (hopefully a school night). If the kids thought that they could go to the movies ( maybe just opened for the first time in 6 months) and were surprised that it closed at 7 o’clock, was it a set up for disruption? It is time for full information on this virus and then everyone making their free choice as to the risk they will accept about going places.
This is supposed to be the USA, the land of the FREE and the home of the brave.
Peaceful brawl.
Oh. Teenagers. Got it.
3rd. Worlders and we’re trying to civilize them hundreds of years.
New acronym: NEGL or NNTL.
The first might be considered racist. ;^}
Hey. They could give out the vaccine in a happy meal. Play doctor and get injected with government corporate juice at the same time.
For some reason, I immediately get an image of the chaos.
Stopped reading after I saw the name “Latrisha”
Violent Amish and Brethren gangs clashing again.
“What other choice did they have?”
Mostly peaceful brawl until the police showed up and it turned into a violent brawl
/Orwellspeak
Yeah, I was thinking pretty much along the same lines...
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