Text Alert System Launches To Warn Chicago Of Future ‘Teen Takeovers’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Corinne Murdock.

    A new text alert system aims to warn Chicago residents of future "teen takeovers." This most recent "teen takeover" occurred last weekend, in which Chicago youth wreaked havoc throughout the city, committing a litany of crimes including shootings, arson, theft, and assault.

    The text alert initiative, "Parents For Chicago," is being funded by the nonprofit, "I'm Telling, Don't Shoot," launched by a local, independent philanthropist. Those wishing to sign up for the alert service can text "CHICAGOKIDS" to 21000, or email ParentsForChicago@gmail.com.

    While Chicago residents have decried the violence and, now, are attempting to counter it, leadership has largely defended the youths' crimes.

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot promised that the teens who committed crimes would be "dealt with," but insisted that the community shouldn't call the takeover "mayhem." Three teenagers, aged 14 through 17, were shot and 15 individuals were arrested as a result of the weekend-long takeover by over 100 teens throughout the city.

    "I'm not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say there's 'mayhem,'" Lightfoot told reporters.

    These teen takeovers have reportedly become an annual affair, with teens circulating invites via social media as the weather warms in the city. Around 150 teens gathered in the city last Wednesday, an apparent precursor to the weekend violence.

    The takeover nearly took the lives of one young couple, Devontae Johnson and Ashley Knutson, who'd been shopping downtown. The pair were assaulted and robbed by a group of teens, and required a passerby to intervene. Johnson and Knutson reported that the mob threatened to kill them.

    Knutson also alleged that the police drove by them as they were being attacked.

    The woman who rescued the young couple, Lenora Davis, told Fox News that Lightfoot "sugarcoated" the takeover. Davis, who voted for Lightfoot, also said she disagreed with Lightfoot's claim that most of the teens present in downtown were there for innocent reasons.

    "I can't be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw," said Dennis. "That was mayhem."

    Democratic Illinois state Sen. Robert Peters indicated his support for the teen takeover, preempting his comments by calling those opposed to his take as "unhinged, crime weirdo[s]."

    "I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement," said Peters. "It's a mass protest against poverty and segregation."

    Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson criticized all those who spoke out against the teens involved in the takeover. Johnson insisted that the teens should be supported instead. He added that it was the city's responsibility to create spaces for the teens to gather safely and responsibly.

    "It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities," said Johnson. "Make sure that young people know that they're supported."

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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