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Why teens in DC and elsewhere are staging “takeovers”

Vox·Hady Mawajdeh·28 days ago
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This spring, videos of teenagers gathering in massive crowds in Washington, DC , Los Angeles , Detroit , Chicago , Jacksonville , and other cities have gone viral. In most of the videos, you’ll see hundreds, sometimes thousands, of young people gathered in open spaces or in the parking lots of restaurants and malls. Oftentimes, it can look chaotic. These gatherings have been dubbed “takeovers.” Teens say they occupy these spaces because there aren’t enough places for them to be with their peers on the weekends and in the evenings. “Young people get together like this because you got the clubs 21 and up, man,” Tyrone Crest, a 19-year-old DC-based content creator, told the Washington Post in audio shared with Vox. “The adults could go out and have fun on the weekends and enjoy themselves, right? So what we do is we basically try to get everybody to come together, enjoy themselves, you know what I’m saying?…

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