This time, seven arrests though:
- More than a dozen young men attacked a person Saturday night in the Streeterville neighborhood outside a building on Northwestern University's downtown campus, according to an alert issued by the university.
Seven people thought to be part of that group, mostly youth, were arrested on "mob action charges" when Chicago police and Northwestern police responded, according to police News Affairs [...].
About 8:30 p.m., the victim had parked his motor scooter outside the building on Chicago Avenue, a little west of Lake Shore Drive, when about 15 to 20 males--believed to be in their mid-to-late teens--approached him, according to the alert, which categorized the incident as an attempted robbery. One of the males in that group threw a baseball at the victim's face and knocked him to the ground, the alert stated.
Remember though, this is an isolated phenomenon (
with no descriptions of the offenders anywhere in the article):
- Other recent mob action or flash mob incidents downtown include one in April, when a group of about 70 youths stormed a McDonald's restaurant on Dearborn Street and Chicago, and created a disturbance. The restaurant was closed for nearly three hours.
In February, Loyola University warned its Water Tower campus students and staffers about "flash mob offenders," who would exit from Chicago Avenue's CTA Red Line station and allegedly steal items from retail stores around the campus.
And only a mile or so from the dangerous "heat" of North Avenue Beach. Right?
