Posted on 12/11/2021 9:06:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last weekend in Chicago’s Loop, all hell broke loose as hundreds of teens rampaged across the downtown area near Millenium Park. A bus driver was assaulted, a young girl was shot, and 21 people were arrested.
It’s becoming a distressingly familiar occurrence in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames the parents. “Do you know where your children are?” the clueless mayor asked.
Last weekend’s “Wild in the Streets” moment was the result of social media influencers spreading the word on several platforms. But the “Flash Mob” wasn’t some harmless stunt. Two officers were injured in the melee, and the general sense of lawlessness has much of the city on edge.
Chicago’s top cop, police Superintendent David Brown, has vowed to prevent a repeat of last weekend’s chaos.
“There will be more of everything,” Chicago Police Supt. David Brown told reporters at police headquarters Friday.
Without going into specifics, police said there would be additional resources in and around Millennium Park this weekend. There is also a plan to evacuate the park in an emergency.
Brown said his officers would likely be “more aggressive” in making arrests the moment they witness criminal behavior.
“But that is not the role of policing — to babysit people’s kids,” he said. “Parents should not be driving their kids from all parts of Chicagoland and dropping them off downtown. It’s just irresponsible as a parent, particularly the younger kids we saw downtown: the 12-year-olds, the 14-year-olds with no adult supervision.”
Excuse me, but what planet is Superintendent Brown from? Probably the same planet that his erstwhile boss, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, comes from.
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“teen”
RE: “teen”
That’s in the first sentence of the article.
I guess they shouldn’t really be called teens because a lot of them are really adults ( 18 is an adult ).
Amish getting rowdy again, no doubt.
Nonetheless, SHOOT TO KILL will stop this. These smash & grabs are a cancer on society and must be wiped out NOW lest they destroy us.
Bleeding hearts — have at it!
The movie version was called *lanet *f th* ****.
Just saw where they just had a smash and grab of several high end watches at the Gold Coast Lamborghini show
Broad daylight, with customers in the place
Showroom
“...result of social media influencers spreading the word on several platforms”
Remember when the Internet was going to bring all of the world’s literature and arts to you at home and the world would be a wonderful place?
Nobody ever thought about all the nefarious uses the Internet could be put to.
Whoever would have thought up “flash mobs”?
They didn’t take some Lambos?
Walked right by one
Million dollars worth of watches were easier to carry, I guess
Rampaging "youths" from South Loop to the Michigan Ave is a weekly occurrence in Chicago.
You see, if they call them “teens”, then they don’t have to post their names or pictures. So, they protect who these “teens” really are.
“Teen.”
They keep using that word - but I don’t think it means what they think it means.
You always get more of what you allow.
They are simply reaping what they sowed.
Allowing looters to be shot on sight will quench the activity post haste.
Mayor dead foot aka admiral Akbar the concerned hygiened mayor let us all know its not the wave of gang looting its the stores that allow it to happen and invite it
When will thy finally start using Puke gas to stem the problem?
Only by age not mind.
Those crazy teens and their teen activities.
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