‘Teen takeovers’ will bring bloody chaos nationwide this summer — because Blue America isn’t bending

Get ready for a summer of teen mayhem, unless blue-city leaders across the country abandon their commitment to fostering disorder in the name of equity.

The hot new thing is a “takeover” — a Gen-Z euphemism for a riot, often inspired by social media and featuring huge mobs and psychotic car stunts.

Chicago saw several “teen takeovers” over Memorial Day weekend, with dozens of arrests of “youths” running as old as 28.

And one of them saw Rashad Johnson, 18, allegedly plow his vehicle into a group of cops trying to restore order; he’s now charged with five counts of attempted murder.

President Donald Trump posted: “Five officers badly hurt. Mayor and Governor are terrible. Should call for help!”

Yet Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed to be “encouraged by a Memorial Day weekend that saw zero homicides” (just 37 shootings); he blamed parents for failing to control their kids and Republicans for noticing the disorder — and finally declared he would “explore” legal efforts to “hold social media apparatuses accountable” for these crimes. 

Of course, the mayor is already on record warning, “if we believe we can arrest our way toward safety, we’re wrong” — and has governed that way.

Beware: These flash riots are a national phenomenon. 

March saw a youth riot in Washington DC’s Navy Yard, with kids breaking an anti-riot curfew and gathering to commit assault, robbery, and other heinous acts, the latest in a string of such occurrences.

In mid-April, a social-media driven youth riot in downtown Detroit saw a mass outbreak of brawling and violence, including gunfire; miraculously, no one was killed.

A takeover just weeks before saw a 14-year-old shot in the chest.  

On Memorial Day weekend here in New York, teens converged in the hundreds on Ontario Beach Park outside Rochester, literally driving out the families who had come to relax. 

Indeed, takeovers are hitting beach areas up and down the coast: Georgia’s Tybee Island saw gunfire erupt April 4.

In the runup to Memorial Day, Rhode Island saw three stabbings at Narragansett Town Beach May 20 and another takeover at Second Beach in Middletown, while police arrested 51 at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire after multiple fights broke out between a large group of youngsters.

On the Jersey Shore, hundreds of teens and young adults ran wild in Long Branch, with multiple arrests including at a “pop-up” riot at Pier Village. The town had to call in 139 cops from neighboring areas; officers donned riot gear and worked for hours to control the chaos.

And no, this isn’t entirely new: Another shore town, Wildwood, now closes its boardwalk overnight to avoid a repeat of the teen rioting that hit in back in 2024.

Nor is Chicago’s Johnson entirely wrong to blame parents and social media — but a far bigger issue is the blue-state turn against holding juveniles to account.

New York’s own “Raise the Age” law all but guarantees young thugs like the Ontario Beach goons will face zero consequences for their actions: By hiking the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and bouncing everyone younger into Family Court, it ensures their “graduation” to ever-worse crimes.

Rhode Island in 2021 passed uber-woke “Mario’s Law” (named after a brutal killer that the state released), making it easier for juveniles who commit crimes up to murder to get parole as adults.

Jersey, Illinois and Michigan have done their own juvenile-justice “reforms”; even Georgia raised the age of criminal responsibility years ago.

Until state and local lawmakers abandon the idea that kids who rob and mob and stab and kill are somehow victims, this disorder will keep spreading.

So far, Blue America isn’t bending, so expect plenty of chaos this summer.