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Why are minors out between the hours of 11pm-5am? Do their parents have any idea?

Raleigh council members discuss detailed proposal for youth curfew

City leaders heard from the public Tuesday on Raleigh’s proposed youth curfew ordinance. Shortly after the city attorney presented a draft ordinance for discussion, members of the public weighed in.

Violence over the Independence Day weekend prompted city leaders to consider a youth curfew. Police said the incidents began at Brier Creek Commons, where about 3,000 teens showed up for a Star-Spangled Block Party near the shopping center’s clock tower. Later that evening, police said about 5,000 teens flooded Glenwood South, where fights broke out. However, the majority of those arrested following the incidents were adults.

Police Chief Rico Boyce announced that a fifth teen was taken into custody earlier Tuesday in connection with the shooting at Brier Creek. U.S. marshals arrested the teen in New York. They are charged with two counts of assault with deadly weapon, felony riot, discharging a firearm into occupied property and possession of a firearm by a minor.

That teen is 15. They just bolted from NC to NY? Did their parent(s) have a clue?

“We are seeing the trend of violence with our juveniles increase year over year,” Boyce said.

Under the draft ordinance, a person 18 or younger would be in violation of the curfew if they were in a public place between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Of course, many of the “teens” are in their 20s, so, I hope they have a plan for the police to deal with them. And the resulting claims of raaaaacism, because the vast majority of those involved in these teen takeovers are Black

Exceptions would include young people traveling to or from work, home, school or a religious activity; participating in a First Amendment-protected activity; accompanied by an adult; or experiencing an emergency.

Almost none should be in any of those situations at that age, other than an emergency. Which should be rare.

None of the more than a dozen people who signed up to speak about the curfew expressed support for it.

“They can’t go to the mall, the movies. There are curfews already in place where, when I was a kid, I hung out at. We need to ask them where they need to go, what they need,” said Ramiyah Robinson of the Education Justice Alliance.

“How does a curfew make young people safer?” asked Zainab Baloch. “Raleigh needs reasons for young people to believe this city belongs to them too.”

Malls are closed at 11 (there are also bans on “teens” much earlier without adult supervision, because they keep causing violence). It’s rare to have movies that late. The kiddies aren’t just “hanging out”, they are committing mayhem, theft, fighting, shooting, stabbing. Where they should be as minors is at home. These same types of adults are enabling the violence by the “teens”.

It’s not about making the young people safer, it’s about making the rest of us safer.