South Orange Downtown Friday Night
tom said:
Time to get the live bands fired up.
Last year Downtown After Sundown began Memorial Day weekend.
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We had dinner downtown Saturday evening and I wondered why there was a large police presence downtown. Now I know. The SOPD is to be commended.
"Two 14-year-olds suffered minor injuries when a fight broke out in South Orange Village Center on Friday night.
Hundreds of young people had gathered in the Village Center, brought out by warm weather and social media posts, reported South Orange Police Chief Kyle Kroll.
Kroll said that the crowd grew to 400-500 young people — some as young as one 11-year-old from Orange, said Kroll, who spoke to the child while he was patrolling. The crowd grew so large that SOPD called in mutual aid from Maplewood, Orange, Irvington, West Orange and Livingston as well as the Essex County Sheriff. Kroll said that he wanted to ensure that the youth could be safely and calmly dispersed. A section of Sloan Street was shut down during the evening as police worked to manage and disperse the crowd."
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"Kroll said he was pleased that, despite the one incident, there were not further fights, no major injuries and no use of pepper spray by police. Kroll said that officers reported that some of the young people were trying to antagonize officers into reacting and were recording officers’ responses with their cell phones.
“The officers did a fantastic job,” said Kroll."
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