Leaders vow to stop 'irresponsible' behavior

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The politician of Philadelphia, arsenic good arsenic the territory lawyer and constabulary commissioner, are making a committedness to ace down connected unsafe driving stunts successful the metropolis aft videos surfaced of drivers doing donuts successful beforehand of metropolis hall.

The videos popped up implicit the weekend, showing hundreds of radical watching what authorities called “reckless” stunts.

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Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner, and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw issued a associated connection Tuesday that said, successful part:

“On Saturday night, respective 100 individuals gathered connected streets conscionable adjacent to City Hall, to ticker oregon prosecute successful activities that were incredibly reckless and needlessly endangered people. We powerfully condemn these individuals’ careless actions, which included mounting disconnected fireworks, blocking roads, and performing unsafe stunts with their vehicles. Just past year, we saw the highest fig of postulation deaths connected grounds owed to radical driving excessively accelerated and being incapable to power their car and react. These irresponsible activities enactment the nationalist astatine hazard of superior harm and cannot and volition not beryllium tolerated anyplace successful Philadelphia.”

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The constabulary section said 1 of the gatherings included astir 200 people. No injuries were reported, and nary arrests were initially made implicit the weekend.

The connection went connected to picture the stunts arsenic an ongoing issue, adding, “[T]he Philadelphia Police Department has continuously deployed unit to code this recurrent problem. These events impede anti-violence efforts successful our neighborhoods arsenic constabulary resources are forced to activate and interruption up these unsafe gatherings, alternatively of remaining focused connected preventing unit successful our astir susceptible and at-risk neighborhoods.”

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Anyone with accusation connected these incidents should telephone 215-686-TIPS (8477).

CBS3 Staff