Large crowd blocks streets on 75th Street in Chicago, Chicago IL


A large crowd of over 1,000 people gathered on 75th Street near Evans, King Drive, and St. Lawrence in Chicago, causing disruption to traffic. Police vehicles were requested to block traffic at these intersections to manage the situation and clear the crowd.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 08
01:35
Transcript:
00:00
All right, squad, it's ridiculous out here on 75th Street.
00:03
It's over 1,000 people out here.
00:06
Send me a car, all my overtime cars, my X-ray 640 cars, all the ROI cars.
00:11
I need a car to block traffic at 75th in Evans, block off the westbound traffic, another car to go to 75th in King Drive, and block off the eastbound traffic.
00:23
And then I need another car to go to 76 in St. Lawrence and block... lock off the northbound traffic and then have all the rest of the cars meet me at 75th and roads to clear up that crowd first.
00:41
Okay,
00:44
so first, if we can have all the, I don't know what you guys are calling that team, it's the 50-06 team, correct?
00:54
Yeah, whatever ROI cars those are.
00:57
And then I got a bunch of cars, X-3-640 cars working the teen friend.
01:02
They're going to have to leave their post and come over here to 75th Street, and we've got to work on this person and all these people.
01:09
All right, everybody just head over the 75th Street.
01:11
All the X-ray, 640 cars and all of the 50-06 vehicles, I might not see you all logged in because I literally only have one 50-0-6 vehicle logged in. If you guys can just head over there to assist at 75th Street. We're going to need one car for 7-5 in Evan to block traffic westbound. We did another car, 75 at King Drive, which blocked eastbound. We need another car on 76 of St.
01:32
Lawrence block northbound, and then the rest you all can meet on roads.
Disclaimer:
This transcript was automatically generated and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify the information independently.
Location mentioned:
Chicago, IL
This shows a Google Street View of the area near the location, which might not be the exact address.
Correct
Incorrect