Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Some arrests made as large groups of teens gather on Mag Mile" "Arrests For Brawls, Phone Thefts After 500 Kids Descend on Downtown Chicago, Police…
Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Some arrests made as large groups of teens gather on Mag Mile" "Arrests For Brawls, Phone Thefts After 500 Kids Descend on Downtown Chicago, Police Say" black mob violence crime criminality assaults
https://abc7chicago.com/some-arrests-made-as-large-groups-of-teens-gather-on-mag-mile/5257106/
April 17th, 2019 11:03PM
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Police said as many as 500 teens, many broken into groups of 50 to 100, congregated in Millennium Park and Michigan Avenue Wednesday evening.
About 30 people were arrested, mostly Chicago Public School high school students, police said. Police had some administrators come downtown to apparently identify some of the students involved.
The arrests were made for fighting, trespassing, disobeying police and harassing people, police said. No serious injuries were reported.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-downtown-teen-crowds-508733501.html
April 18, 2019
Social media, a warm night and spring break for Chicago Public Schools all combined to draw hundreds of teenagers downtown for the evening Wednesday.
It’s a perennial issue in Chicago as summer comes: Teens connect with hundreds of others within seconds online and congregate in the Loop and along the Magnificent Mile, sometimes resulting in chaotic encounters with officers trying to contain the crowds.
Officers in the downtown and Near North Side districts over the years have used a variety of tactics, including directing the teenagers onto trains and buses that carry them out of the area.
But such strategies have raised concerns about the rights of teenagers who aren’t causing problems, especially when most sent away from downtown are black and from the South and West sides.
