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A terrifying video that’s been viewed nearly 15 million times since it was posted to Twitter on Monday shows a woman trapped against a doorway and then beaten by a surrounding mob.
Fox News said the attack occurred amid Saturday’s “Teen Takeover” in Chicago.
Police on Tuesday said the woman is 20 years old and that a 22-year-old male was attacked along with her around 8 p.m. in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue, WSB-TV reported.
The victims said “a group of unknown offenders approached” them and “struck the victims several times before taking their personal property and fleeing in an unknown direction,” WSB reported, citing police.
Police added that the victims were hospitalized with “minor injuries” and that “no one is in custody at this time. Area Three detectives are investigating,” the station noted.
What else?
Hundreds of teens flooded the streets Saturday night, smashing and setting cars on fire and perpetrating other physical attacks; two teenagers also were shot.
A man sitting in the driver’s seat of his car was hospitalized after a group of teens beat him as they smashed his vehicle. Video shows teens standing and dancing on the roof of a Chicago Transit Authority bus, and there were reports of bottles being thrown at CTA buses. Police said social media posts encouraged teens to fight in the downtown area.
What’s more, gunfire erupted near the crowds at the corner of Madison and Michigan, WFLD reported, adding that two males — 16 and 17 — were shot and then hospitalized in fair condition.
Lori Lightfoot: Weekend’s lawlessness was not ‘mayhem’
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday responded to a reporter’s question about the weekend’s lawlessness by saying, “I’m not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say it was ‘mayhem,’” WGN-TV reported.
Mayor-elect: ‘Not constructive to demonize youth’
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson — a progressive Democrat — responded to the “teen takeover” by saying it’s “not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities,” WMAQ-TV reported.
More violence to come?
Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins said a “part two” of last weekend’s violence has been promised for this coming weekend.
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