A massive mob of rowdy teenagers clashed with cops near downtown Chicago’s Millenium Park on Saturday night, leaving two teens wounded and at least one bystander beaten.
The unruly mob erupted in violence — trashing property, smashing windshields and torching cars while attacking at least one motorist — forcing cops to escort tourists to safety, WFLD-TV News reported Sunday.
Chicago police said two teens — 16 and 17 years old — were wounded by a gunman in the crowd, the outlet reported.
The violence came a day after a 14-year-old boy was shot during another outburst of teen violence at 31st Avenue Beach.
Police reported one arrest in that incident.
On Saturday, hundreds — and possibly thousands — of teenagers massed in the Chicago Loop around 9 p.m. after social media posts called for a meetup near Millennium Park, WMAQ-TV in Chicago reported.
Teens seen crowding a vehicle at the scene.Twitter/@EndWokeness
“Last night CPD monitored activity happening across the city and officers were in place to quickly respond to active incidents and large gatherings,” police said in a statement. “We will continue to have sufficient resources in place as we work to strengthen safety in every neighborhood.”
Many youngsters tried to get into the park but were turned away at checkpoints that barred anyone under 21 who wasn’t accompanied by an adult, the outlets reported.
“It’s heartbreaking,” one witness told the station. “Kids fighting, chasing each other. Some of them got guns. It’s really heartbreaking when one of them actually gets hurt, and that’s unfortunate.”
Some kids were armed with guns during the incident.Twitter/@JuanSmith1776 A large group of teens climb over a divider on the road.Twitter/@heyFATabbot
“It was a lot of cops here but they were still outnumbered,” the witness said. “There were so many teenagers that showed up, and they tried to keep the peace and keep them under control.”
One woman whose car was damaged by the mob reported her husband was beaten while sitting in the passenger seat, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The two teens shot in the melee were also taken to the hospital, and were in fair condition.
A Florida man is accused of fatally shooting his own teenage daughter, her mother and two others before a surviving child inside the home called for help Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
Deputies rushed to the crime scene in Canaveral Groves after one of two unharmed children called a relative for help, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said during a news conference.
Deputies found the bodies of 15-year-old Kiarra Terwilliger and her mother Constance Terwilliger, 35, who used to be in a relationship with accused killer Domenico Gigante, around 2 a.m.
Other victims were identified as Glenda Terwilliger, 63, and 36-year-old Michael Andrew Watson.
Gigante, 36, who Ivey called an “extremely violent individual,” was charged with four counts of first-degree murder. He was arrested hours after the shooting and is being held without bail.
Suspected murderer, Domenico Gigante, is escorted to a patrol car following his arrest on Wednesday.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook Gigante is placed into the vehicle following his arrest for killing four earlier in the day on March 1, 2023.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook
The surviving children are 9 and 6, the sheriff said. One of the children contacted a relative, who then raced to the scene and called 911, Ivey said in an earlier press conference.
A motive for the deadly gunfire was not revealed by authorities.
“Folks, I’m gonna tell you this is an extremely violent individual with an extremely violent past,” Ivey said of Gigante.
He was previously arrested for domestic violence and battery in 2005, multiple counts of cruelty to animals in 2008 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault in 2012.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey speaks during an update on the quadruple murder in Canaveral Groves on Wednesday.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook
Ivey said Gigante once killed a dog by breaking his head on the table and snapping his neck and also stabbed another dog.
“That’s the level of violence this individual possesses,” he said.
“My thoughts and prayers are with this family,” Ivey continued. “And we as a community mourn their loss.”
The city’s homeless shelters are so out of control that terrified residents say they’d be safer on the subways — or even in prison.
City records obtained by The Post documented nearly two dozen incidents of violence and other outrageous behavior during one week in mid-September — the same period when a despondent migrant mom hanged herself in one of the taxpayer-funded facilities.
The horrors included bloody beatings, unprovoked attacks, vicious domestic abuse and meaningless fights — several of which sent victims for hospital treatment of their injuries.
“I’ve been screamed at, threatened,” said Dominic, 30, an ex-con who lives at the infamous Bellevue Men’s Shelter in Manhattan. “I did five years in Sing Sing and felt safer there than I do here. I feel safer on the subways.”
Homeless shelter residents say they’d be safer on the subways or in prison.Paul Martinka
A fellow resident, 34-year-old Kenneth Foster, told The Post, “It’s like the zoo let the animals out of their cages.”
“Two nights ago, one guy showed me a knife … He was like, ‘F–k with me and I f–k with you,’ and I was like, ‘I ain’t f–king with you’ and we was cool, but that’s just how it is here,” he added.
“The only good thing about this place is the hospital’s next door, so if I get a knife in the back I can just walk to the ER.”
The Post used the city’s Freedom of Information Law to obtain 424 pages of official reports about 273 “critical incidents” that took place between Sept. 16 and 21.
On Sept. 18, in the middle of that period, a 32-year-old migrant woman was found by one of her two kids hanging from a shower rod by an electrical cord in the Hollis Family Shelter in Queens.
The incidents that were considered to pose a threat to “the safety and well-being of shelter residents and/or staff” include:
A man being attacked in his sleep and found with a bloody nose inside the shelter at the Holiday Inn Express at 153-70 South Conduit Avenue, Queens, around 11:50 p.m. on Sept. 17. The alleged attacker resisted arrest when cops arrived and was only subdued after being Tased twice.
A woman said she was threatened with a knife by a fellow resident of the Women’s Center at 427 W. 52nd St. in Manhattan when a fight erupted during a fire drill there around 11 a.m. on Sept. 19. The woman who allegedly brandished the knife was arrested after acting “aggressive toward the staff and the officers” who responded.
Surveillance cameras caught two staffers fighting inside the shelter at 1851 Phelan Place in The Bronx, around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 21. Staffers found a man who was bleeding from the right side of his head and said his assailant — who fled the scene — had threatened him with a knife before bashing him with a “wet floor” sign.
Staffers burst into a room at a shelter in The Bronx and found a woman holding her son as they were being beaten by her partner at around 5:50 p.m. on Sept. 16. The assailant ran away, leaving the woman with a swollen face and the boy with a bruised forehead.
Two residents at 316 Beach 65th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens, were arrested after a fight erupted around 12:15 a.m. on Sept. 20, when one man accused the other of urinating and defecating on the floor of their communal bathroom.
A man who lives in the Queens shelter where the resident was attacked in his sleep said he recalled the incident.
Vincent, 40, added that he also left the shelter last year after the same thing happened to him.
“I was sleeping and my roommate assaulted me. Nothing was done about it and I felt safer on the street,” he said. “I left because they weren’t helping me. I stayed out in the street for a year.”
Vincent complained that the facility was “understaffed” and that “there’s not enough security.”
On Sept. 18, a 32-year-old migrant woman was found by one of her two kids hanging from a shower rod by an electrical cord in the Hollis Family Shelter in Queens.
“Every f–king night EMS is here. It’s either a fight or people OD’ing,” he said.
A security guard at the shelter declined to comment or take a message for the person in charge.
“I don’t even know who management is here. I just started last week so I’m not familiar with a lot of people,” the guard said.
The chair of the city council’s General Welfare Committee, which oversees the Department of Homeless Services, told The Post the reports documented a “horrible situation.”
“It’s pretty consistent with what we’re hearing from folks, specifically people who are living on the streets: that the shelter system is not safe enough for them,” said Councilmember Diana Ayala (D-Upper Manhattan, The Bronx).
In a statement, the Department of Social Services defended its efforts to “provide adequate security across the shelter system,” saying that it “continues to strengthen our reporting mechanisms to capture any instances that may impact the well-being of our clients.”
The department added: “Over-simplistic and misleading assumptions about the shelter system based on a week of incident reports misrepresent the actual work and system improvements that are happening on the ground.”
Despite the department’s assertions, statistics show that violence and death in the shelters is becoming more common, not less.
NY1 recently reported that the number of shelter residents who died citywide increased 58% between 2019 and 2021, while records also showed a rise in the numbers of fights, sex offenses and drug overdoses in shelters for single adults.
The number of shelter residents who died increased 58% between 2019 and 2021.Matthew McDermott
The Mayor’s Management Report from Sept. 8 also cited an unspecified “increase in fights/disputes as well as drug-related incidents, including overdoses, consistent with citywide and national trends” during the fiscal year that ended in June, compared to the same period in 2020-21.
Shelly Nortz, deputy executive director for policy at the Coalition for the Homeless, said the “best solution” would be providing people “a secure and private room of their own with prompt access to affordable permanent housing.”
“Overcrowding people in congregate settings for extended periods of time during a pandemic – often with shared bathrooms, little storage and unappetizing food – is bound to heighten tensions in local shelters,” she added.
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Thousands of University of Virginia students and community members flooded the college’s South Lawn Monday night for an emotional vigil honoring three students killed in a shooting one night earlier.
Mourners lit candles and left flowers in remembrance of Davin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, three UVA football players who were fatally shot when a gunman opened fire at their team bus on campus.
Their deaths have left the tight-knit football team reeling and many players openly wept as mourners paid tribute to the slain young men.
“It’s a void that we will feel for a long time. This team is very, very close,” the team’s former director of player relations, Jordan Bullock, told The Post. “To lose one is tragic, to lose three is just devastating.”
Bullock, 28, said it’s heartbreaking that the victims were taken so soon and will never get to graduate.
He said he believed Perry was destined for greatness.
D’Sean Perry was in the midst of his junior season for the Cavaliers.University of Virginia
“D’Sean walked around with a curiosity of the world that would have taken him places,” Bullock said. “I think he would have grown up to be an influential person.”
He added that the student was a “silent leader” who people gravitated to.
“He had this ability just to connect with anybody.”
Lavel Davis Jr. was a wide receiver for Virginia.University of Virginia
Bullock said he spoke to Davis last week at a UVA basketball game.
“He looked happy. Last season he was out because of an injury,” he said. “I think he was just happy to be back on the team and contribute.”
“Lavel was someone who always carried a smile on his face,” he added.
Devin Chandler was described as a “funny and passionate person” by his former roommate.University of Virginia
Football player Chayce Chalmers, 21, a safety for the UVA team and former roommate of Chandler’s, was in shock over the senseless violence.
“I don’t believe it,” he told The Post of the shooting, his voice breaking. “It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel real at all.”
He said Chandler was a funny and passionate person who was dedicated to football and enjoyed playing video games.
“He was a great, great guy,” Chalmers said of his roommate.
The vigil took place on the university’s South Lawn.
Chalmers called Perry “iconic” and said Davis was hardworking and “up and coming.”
“[Perry’s] a quiet guy. He’s hilarious. He knew how to get the team motivated,” he said, still speaking in the present. “He’s iconic, man.”
The football player said all three men were like family who shared a special bond.
“Those were my brothers, my teammates,” Chalmers said. “I worked my tail off with them, I cried with them.”
Another player expressed similar bonds with the victims.
“I’ll miss them a lot and I love them very much,” tight end Henry Duke told The Post.
Police who shot a 22-year-old Colorado man after he called 911 for roadside assistance escalated the situation, needlessly leading to his death, the man’s relatives said in a tearful news conference Tuesday in which they called for accountability.
After Christian Glass’ June 11 death in the small mountain town of Silver Plume west of Denver, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s office issued a news release saying that Glass was shot after he became “argumentative and uncooperative” and tried to stab an officer when police broke a car window to grab him.
“Christian was experiencing a crisis, and he called 911 for help,” said the parents’ attorney, Siddhartha Rathod, “and yet these officers busted out Christian’s window, shot him six times with bean bag rounds, Tased him multiple times from two Tasers, and then shot him five times.”
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation handles police shootings, including the Glass case, but the family wants prosecutors to file criminal charges, Rathod said.
Heidi McCollum, district attorney for the Fifth Judicial District that includes Clear Creek County, released a statement Tuesday saying her office is investigating the case along with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Her office plans to eventually issue a report on the shooting or present the case to a grand jury, which would decide if indictments should be issued, McCollum said.
The videos shared with The Associated Press show Glass refusing to come out of his car while also telling police he’s “terrified” and making heart shapes with his hands to officers. At one point, he also can be seen praying with folded hands and saying, “Dear Lord, please, don’t let them break the window.”
Siddhartha Rathod (right) said Christian Glass had no history of mental illness.AP
When the officers did break the window, Glass seemed to panic and grabbed a knife.
Police then shot Glass with bean bag rounds and shocked him with a stun gun before the young man twisted in his seat and thrust a knife toward an officer, the footage showed. Then one officer fired his gun, hitting Glass. The recordings then show Glass stabbing himself before he died.
The family said the videos were only edited to blur the body. The AP has requested that police provide any videos related to the case.
Rathod said Glass had no history of mental illness. When asked about Glass’s abnormal behavior, he said “unfortunately we are not ever going to know.”
Police have not said whether behavioral health specialists were contacted during the crisis.AP
Rathod released an autopsy report that found that Glass died of gunshot wounds. It said he had THC, a .01% blood alcohol concentration, and amphetamine in his system, the last of which Rathod said is likely from an ADHD prescription for Glass.
The shooting comes amid a national outcry for police reforms focused on crisis intervention, de-escalation and alternative policing programs. In Denver and New York, behavioral health specialists are sent to 911 callers facing crises that police may not be trained to address or could even exacerbate.
Police haven’t said if any behavioral health specialists were called for Glass.
Use-of-force and de-escalation experts who reviewed the footage for The Associated Press said this case is an example of when a behavioral health specialist or crisis response team — programs becoming increasingly popular across the country — may have helped de-escalate the situation and avert Glass’ death.
“There are some real red flags that suggest potential problems,” said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and leading use-of-force expert who reviewed portions of the footage. Stoughton testified in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd.
While police officers may be justified in using force once a situation has intensified, “it’s everything that we do before that in terms of de-escalation that can make those situations go a completely different direction,” said Tamara Lynn, the executive council president for the National De-Escalation Training Center, who reviewed the footage.
In particular, both Lynn and Stoughton questioned why officers didn’t take Glass up on his offer, recorded by body camera footage, to disarm himself by throwing his knives out of his car window.
While a thrown knife can pose a threat, “officers have plenty of opportunity to maneuver themselves and put themselves in a position that’s not risky,” said Stoughton. “I am kind of astonished that they did not take advantage of what looked like a very clear opportunity to have him separate himself from the weapons.”
Similarly, Stoughton wondered why they needed to break the car window. He said police don’t have all day to spend on one call, but questioned if they needed to.
“It’s not clear to me that it should have gone that far,” he said.
Between tears on Tuesday, Christian’s mother, Sally Glass, displayed a pendant of Jesus recovered from her son’s car that is engraved with the words, “Pray for us.”
“We have to pray for us in America to make this a less violent country,” Sally Glass said. “I think a lot of people now would agree that there is a systemic problem with policing: It’s too aggressive. They escalate at every opportunity, and it looks like they are spoiling for a fight. … They should be protecting us, not attacking us.”
Glass said her son was “petrified” and “paralyzed” by fear the night he was killed.
“I have a hole in my heart, and it will be there until the day I die,” Glass said.
With numerous current global problems that need immediate attention, it’s easy to urge pessimistic. However, the quantity of progress that organizations have made in combating these problems is admirable, and therefore the world will still improve within the years to return . By staying active in current events, and standing up for the health and safety of all humans, most are ready to make a difference in changing the fate of our world.
1.Climate Change.
The global temperatures are rising, and are estimated to extend from 2.6 degrees Celsius to 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100. This would cause more severe weather, crises with food and resources and therefore the spread of diseases. The reduction of greenhouse emissions and therefore the spreading of education on the importance of going green can help make an enormous difference. Lobbying governments and discussing policies to scale back carbon emissions and inspiring reforestation is an efficient way of creating progress with global climate change .
2.Pollution.
Pollution is one among the foremost difficult global issues to combat, because the umbrella term refers to ocean litter, insecticides and fertilizers, air, light and sound pollution . Clean water is important for humans and animals, but quite one billion people don’t have access to wash water thanks to pollution from toxic substances, sewage or industrial waste. It is of the utmost importance that folks everywhere the planet begin working to attenuate the varied sorts of pollution, so as to raised the health of the planet and all those living on it.
3.Violence.
Violence are often found within the social, cultural and economic aspects of the planet . Whether it’s conflict that has broken call at a city, hatred targeted at a particular group of individuals or harassment occurring on the road , violence may be a preventable problem that has been a problem for extended than necessary. With continued work on behalf of the governments of all nations, also because the individual citizens, the difficulty are often addressed and reduced.
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The U.N. is a perfect example of preventing the shortage of security and well being that may be a serious global issue. Through its efforts with local organizations and members that are skilled in security, the U.N. is working toward increasing the well being of individuals throughout the planet .
5.Lack of Education.
More than 72 million children throughout the world that are of the age to be in primary education aren’t enrolled in class . This can be attributed to inequality and marginalization also as poverty. Fortunately, there are many organizations that employment directly with the difficulty of education in providing the right tools and resources to assist schools.
6.Unemployment.
Without the specified education and skills for employment, more people, particularly 15 to 24 year olds, struggle to hunt out jobs and make an accurate living for themselves and their families. This results in a scarcity of necessary resources, like enough food, clothing, transportation and proper living conditions. Favorably, there are more institutions throughout the country teaching people in need of the skills for jobs and interviewing, helping to lift people from the vicious circle of poverty.
7.Government Corruption.
Corruption may be a major explanation for poverty considering how it affects the poor the foremost , eroding political and economic development, democracy and more. Corruption are often detrimental to the security and well being of citizens living within the corrupted vicinity, and may cause a rise in violence and physical threats without as much regulation in the government.
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9. Substance Abuse.
The United Nations reports that, by the start of the 21st century, an estimated 185 million people over the age of 15 were consuming drugs globally. The drugs most ordinarily used are marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, amphetamine stimulants, opiates and volatile solvents. Different classes of individuals , both poor and rich, partake in drug abuse , and it’s a persistent issue throughout the planet . Petitions and projects are ongoing to finish the worldwide issue of drug abuse .
10. Terrorism.
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