Group of kids blocks Lake Street causing traffic congestion, Oak Park IL
Disorderly ConductA large group of children is blocking both eastbound and westbound lanes on Lake Street in Oak Park, causing significant traffic congestion. The children are gathered on the street and sidewalks, not dispersing on their own. Police units are being dispatched to disperse the crowd and move vehicles to clear traffic.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 12
02:32
Transcript:
00:00
This is literally blocked east and westbound on Lake Street, guys. You gotta move these cars along. These kids are just hanging out now and he's...
00:07
Austin is backed up all the way to Chicago.
00:10
Come on.
00:12
Austin 22. If you start heading that way...
00:16
(number withheld) and 15 times...
00:17
...and the wagon.
00:19
(number withheld) and making Austin.
00:22
Maybe a supervisor to deal with Oak Park? Come on.
00:26
Yeah, we'll have to know.
00:30
One of our supervisors to go with you at Oak Park.
00:38
Yeah,
00:41
keep whistling, man. Go through your job, will ya?
00:49
(number withheld), that's the metal guy.
00:54
Go ahead. 20, go.
01:00
Let the units know to remain professional on the radio.
01:08
All right.
01:14
Austin 23.
01:16
Austin 23.
01:19
You can apply, Paul, and we'll go tell our cavern.
01:31
Offent 20.
01:34
Offs and 20? Yeah,
01:37
I spoke with the commander of Oak Park.
01:39
There was a shooting over on their side at Lake, so they pushed all the kids over to our side.
01:46
So forth.
01:52
If you can send me some more units, we're going to start dispersing them. Whoever is staying on the side, they're just standing on the sidewalk and on the street. We're just going to get them off and start turning them over.
02:02
All right, for 20, we're going to start dispersing other kids.
02:05
We've got the rest of the districts heading that way.
02:12
Off to 20.
02:13
Off to 20.
02:15
Off to 20. Off to 20.
02:18
We're going to need units out of the car, meet me over here near Lake and we're going to start pushing them.
02:25
All right, near Lake. A couple units needed for 20 out of the car, near Lake to start pushing on these kids.
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Oak Park, IL
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