Large groups of teenagers erupt in four days of violence after Democrats pick Chicago for 2024 convention

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For a fourth straight night, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) was forced to call for reinforcements downtown as large numbers of teenagers gathered and engaged in rioting, violence and even to a shootout on Saturday night.

The party started Wednesday night, just days after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chose Chicago as the site of its 2024 national presidential convention, despite the city suffering from one of the highest murder rates. high in the country.

After first ‘large group’ incident of the year at Millennium Park, safety concerns grow this summer https://t.co/JBQ6Yyh21d

— Chicago Navigator (@chinanavigator) April 14, 2023

The CPD was first called out in force around 10 p.m. Wednesday night when around 200 teenagers broke out in a mass brawl in the city’s popular Millennium Park at the southern end of the ‘Mag Mile’. Wednesday night’s incident became the city’s first “large group” incident of the year, according to the CBS Chicago affiliate.

The youths allegedly fought and harassed others in the park, according to reports.

Then-Vice President Joe Biden waves to the crowd as he arrives on stage to deliver remarks on day three of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 27, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

The crowd of unruly teenagers, however, were back on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as police struggled to avert violence.

On Friday, video of teenage gangs jumping over transit buses and rushing through the streets of Chicago emerged on Twitter. The video also showed CPD officers desperately trying to round up the child gangs.

#BREAKING: A chaotic scene unfolds in downtown Chicago as teenagers vandalize cars and gunfire erupts

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There is currently a major police operation in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing mayhem. They were… pic.twitter.com/n7xhBpsTKs

— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) April 16, 2023

A video posted by Chicago’s ABC7 showed a teenager jumping over random cars on the street:

Cellphone video shows a group jumping onto a vehicle along Michigan Avenue https://t.co/vyGYiYnHpp pic.twitter.com/gm00vZdwrO

— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) April 16, 2023

Fox Chicago reported that the roving teenage gangs were also seen banging on car windows, and after shots were fired they noted that they had pulled their press crews off the streets. due to security concerns.

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Indeed, NBC 5 Chicago reported that two teenagers were injured in the Loop on Saturday as hundreds of teenagers again flooded downtown and went into violent spasms.

The victims, two boys aged 16 and 17, were reportedly hit by bullets while standing among the crowd when an unknown assailant fired the shots. It’s unclear if the shots were fired during a nearby fight or if they were just random, insane gunfire.

2 teenagers shot dead as large crowds gathered in downtown Chicago late Saturday https://t.co/DwGzKlyDfo

— ChicagoMediaX (@chicagomediaX) April 16, 2023

The four nights of violence come just three days after Chicago was chosen as the site of the DNC’s 2024 convention and just ten days after the city elected a hardline, soft on crime, police-defunded, ‘progressive’ at the mayor’s office.

Late last week, before he was sworn in as the next mayor of Windy City, Brandon Johnson absurdly claimed that responsibility for the city’s rising crime rate could lie with corporations because, according to him, “70% do not pay taxes companies.”

Then-Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson attends a public safety forum in Chicago, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

The former labor organizer blasted the state’s struggling businesses, saying “70% of large businesses in the state of Illinois don’t pay corporate taxes,” and added. “It’s that kind of fiscal restraint that caused the kind of disinvestment that led to poverty, of course that led to violence.”

The self-proclaimed “progressive” did not reveal his source for the 70% claim.

Even as the violence continues to spin out of control in downtown Loop, Johnson poured out simple platitudes about the unrest during a Friday visit to Jesse Jackson’s Operation Push headquarters.

“My heart breaks for families, who should never have to suffer the pain of a child shot or lost to gun violence in our city. As a father, what I want for my own children, this is what I want for every child in Chicago. Their safety and healing from trauma will be a priority of my administration from day one and beyond,” Johnson said in a statement about the recent violence.

“But we won’t just protect our children – we will love them, nurture them and give each of them the hope and purpose they deserve,” he concluded.

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