May 21, 2023
Hundreds of teenagers gathered at the Tinley Park Armed Forces Weekend Carnival and caused chaos Saturday night after a call-out on social media. Nate Rodgers reports.
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Hundreds of teenagers gathered at the Tinley Park Armed Forces Weekend Carnival and caused chaos Saturday night after a call-out on social media.
Police said a group of about 400 teenagers, who were responding to a call on social media to form a “flash mob,” gathered at the carnival Saturday evening and began running through the parking lot and fighting with each other in an attempt to cause chaos and disrupt the event.
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Tinley Park police canceled the final day of The Armed Forces Weekend Carnival due to safety concerns stemming from a flash mob incident on Saturday.
According to police, about 400 teenagers were at the carnival in response to a social media post.
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Police said the teens were running through the parking lot at the 80th Avenue train station and were getting into fights in an attempt to disrupt the event.
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There should have been a full carnival set up in Tinley Park on Sunday.
Instead, crews were packing everything up after village leaders said a “flash-mob incident” on Saturday shut down Armed Forces Weekend celebrations.
Video posted to social media showed one of multiple fights that broke out after hundreds swarmed Saturday’s event as part of a flash mob.
Authorities said the massive crowd ran through the parking lot and caused chaos as people attending the carnival were celebrating. Isabel Bedolla and Abby Kaiser had just gotten off a ride before they saw a rush of people running.
“It definitely came out of nowhere,” Kaiser said. “I saw everybody running away from it and I just didn’t know what to do.”
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On Saturday, a group of teens began running through the parking lot of the 80th Avenue train station, where the carnival was being held, and began “fighting with each other in an attempt to cause chaos and disrupt the event,” police said.
At one point there were reports of shots fired at the station but the town posted a Facebook message telling the public that “there has not been a shooting as rumors are spreading! The police are trying to maintain order and evacuate everyone safely … there have been fights and there is a lot of confusion.”
A police officer was injured trying to break up a fight and was treated at South Suburban Hospital Saturday evening, police said. Five teens were issued citations for fighting in public.
Most of the teens taken into custody were released to their parents, police said.
Tinley Park carnival shut down after flash mob of 400 teens takes over
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Police say the teens were brought together by social media and created a flash mob situation intended to cause mayhem.
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