Downtown Chicago Businesses Say They Locked Doors, Escorted Customers to Safety Amid ‘Violent' Weekend Gatherings
Businesses in downtown Chicago are on edge after"disruptive and violent" behavior by large groups of young people Friday and Saturday resulted in property damage,"There's probably a lot of people from the suburbs saying I am not going to come downtown for the weekend, or I am not going to come downtown to go out to eat.
According staffers, the Pub's security guards wound up locking the restaurant's doors and escorting customers to their cars to help ensure their safety.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. Officers made 15 arrests during Saturday’s mayhem, though Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins said there could have been “dozens more” if not for the “hostility and violence” that confronted officers who attempted to move into the crowd. That included numerous reports of officers and other people being punched, kicked and pelted with bottles and other objects.
In one instance, a couple walking in the Loop Saturday got caught up in the large group of young adults and was brutally assaulted. The assault, captured on cell phone video and , shows a large group of people viciously attacking the couple, punching and kicking both of them. “We were trying to walk through the crowd, and I was holding his hand and he was walking in front me,” said Ashley Knutson, who was assaulted along with boyfriend Devontae Garrisson-Johnson.“
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