Chicago leaders react to weekend chaos downtown: 'This is what happens'

Chicago

leaders

are vowing to do more to protect the community after large crowds wreaked havoc across the speedway over the

weekend

. Nate Rogers is live with that story for us first at four Nate, yes, that's right, I'm Anthony and Natalie, I'm senior

leaders

. I've been talking about

this

all day after

this

unruly behavior from large groups of teenagers over the first

weekend

. I want you to listen to an interview with Mayor Lori Lightfoot about her

react

ion to this situation. She arrived at the center. She came to the center because the weather was good. and an opportunity to enjoy the city which is absolutely important.

There are some who came with different intentions and have done it and will deal with it, but I'm not going to use their language, which I think is a mistake. sit in your main seat now, although in your life you don't agree with this description, this was indeed the experience of Mayhem over the weekend, hundreds of teenagers at the 31st street beach reported fights and also someone threw a brick through a city vehicle parked along Michigan Avenue outside. the iconic Millennium Park on Saturday even more

chaos

young people jumping and dancing in cars also on CTA platforms breaking windows in fact two teams were shot in the first block of East Washington Street also a man in his 40s was allegedly attacked by a group of Teens, we recently sat down with District 20 Councilwoman Jeanette Taylor, looking at some of the footage from this weekend and listening to her

react

ion, how is something like this justified?

No, I don't justify this behavior, but think about it. about this, would you be in the center if you had things in your own community? If we had approved the Peace book, like young people asked us to do things like this, absolutely you should be responsible for doing things like that, but they wouldn't be in these. spaces if we provided them we told everyone this was going to happen 15 or 20 years ago this is

what

happens

when you close schools this is

what

happens

when you eliminate after-school programs this is what happens when you don't invest in them The front end No, the last checks of the 16 and 17 year olds who were shot over the weekend were listed in fair condition.

Additionally, Chicago police said they made a series of high-risk arrests. I'm 15, exactly nine adults and six minors who We're live from the south side of town Nate Rogers Fox 32 Chicago