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| Uncontrollable street takeover sees participants throwing fireworks at cop cars as Connecticut authorities try to identify participants in gatherings that have run rampant across the state |
| 2023-12-15 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Where's the EMP?
Street takeovers are large gatherings of drivers, often filled with stunts and other mayhem. The events have become more common across the US with other cities reporting issues with takeovers in recent weeks. Police said the group started in Shelton and traveled to North Haven, Orange, Derby and then back to Shelton as police pursued in an attempt to disperse them. 'Some of the vehicles traveled from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Vermont for this event,' Shelton police detective Richard Bango told CT Insider. 'When the vehicles arrived at Research Drive business parking lots they were turned away. The group then attempted to plan alternative parking lots to gather along Bridgeport Avenue using social media.' Video taken in Derby showed fireworks raining down on cops and exploding in the street through a smoke-filled haze. Shelton police said they learned a takeover was being planned on Saturday. They coordinated a multi-agency response including the FBI and Connecticut State Police. We started here, and set the plan out, so we were ready for them when they got here and moved with them,' Shelton Police Chief Shawn Sequeira told WTHN. 'Once they're gathered, that's a whole different situation,' he added. In West Haven, six people were arrested in the early hours of Saturday following a takeover where attendees performed donuts and other dangerous stunts in vehicles. Police apprehended and charged four adults and two juveniles after fireworks were thrown at officers and people refused to comply with orders to disperse. Cops responded to numerous 911 calls reporting, 'people standing in the roadway and cars doing "donuts" in the street', according to a statement. The Connecticut events came after Indianapolis was rocked by a similar event that drew more than 500 cars from various states - with some doing dangerous stunts as people hung out the window. The carnage ended with gunfire as cops tried to break up the gathering and the arrest of 23-year-old Sebastian Jimenez after he injured two cops after leading them on a pursuit. The city has seen a worrying rise in takeovers, which often see an influx of motorists illegally gather to perform risky maneuvers in cars and other vehicles. 'It's unwanted by the community and it's a very dangerous activity,' Indianapolis police Northwest District Commander Lorenzo Lewis said. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 Flamethrowers leave little doubt if you were there or not, cause you're now a carbonized crispy on the asphalt. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-12-15 22:49 |
| #10 JEEZ!!!!! snipers . . . not snopers. Damn old age and bad eyes!!! |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2023-12-15 18:53 |
| #9 /\ #7 : Until it begins to use snopers for crowd control. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2023-12-15 18:52 |
| #8 Seize the cars and send them to the scrapyard |
| Posted by: Chantry 2023-12-15 18:47 |
| #7 The sad arrest rate shows that the LE response is just barely that. It's not meant to put an end to anything. The populace will continue to be terrorized. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-12-15 16:01 |
| #6 I would take my cannon and point it at the bugwits. Load it with rock salt |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-12-15 15:06 |
| #5 birdshot or rocksalt to the legs |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2023-12-15 14:42 |
| #4 "uncontrollable" |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-12-15 14:22 |
| #3 Cops responded to numerous 911 calls reporting, 'people standing in the roadway and cars doing "donuts" in the street', according to a statement. Tell them to move their spectacle to where the Ceasefire crowd is sitting on the road. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-15 13:23 |
#2  Your cell phone tells them who and where you are. It may soon be against the law to leave home without it.(Whoever wears this is an enemy of our people.) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-15 07:13 |
| #1 Develop a way to dye mark, and/or RFID tag aggressive hostile protesters, destructive looters, and rioters. South Korea use to use a DYE Spray technique very effectively for later arrest and it also subjected such criminals to a public stigma when in public until the dye wore off. But then Facebook cobbled together a collection of errors spread out over dozens of violent protests, and South Korea halted the effective use of Protest Mod Dye spraying. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-12-15 06:14 |