Crime & Safety
'Over A Hundred Kids' Jump Fence Into Lollapalooza: Video
A Twitter user captured the video of the crowd running and jumping the fence in just "a matter of seconds."
pic.twitter.com/R83UvVO2GW— Tara Molina (@TaraMolinaTV) August 2, 2019
CHICAGO, IL — A crowd of more than a hundred young people were seen running and jumping over a fence to sneak into Chicago's Lollapalooza festival Friday in Grant Park. According to a video posted to Twitter around 2 p.m. Friday by Jeremy Cohen, the swarm of young Lollapalooza-goers jumped the fence in what Cohen described as "a matter of seconds"
As seen in the video, a young man with a prosthetic leg was stopped by police. However, Cohen tweeted that the person wasn't arrested, and added that there was only one arrest during the incident.
The incident followed rumors spreading across social media platform Snapchat that groups were communicating about storming the music festival gates just minutes before Cohen captured the fence-hopping.
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"Groups are communicating via Snap Chat to get a large force together to storm the gates." #Chicagoscanner That's right people, CPD knows how to use social media too. They are on to your games. #Lollapalooza
— Bill West (@BillWest5) August 2, 2019
Video credited to Jeremy Cohen, @jerm_cohen
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