Source: www.wjla.com - Monday, April 06, 2015
WASHINGTON (WJLA) – The D.C. government apologized Monday after it issued a permit for a family reunion over the weekend that got out of control. It happened late Saturday along Emerson Street NE, near the North Michigan Park Recreation Center. Area residents say on Saturday afternoon college-age people started showing up with alcohol and bad manners, trampling yards. One resident said, “I’ve been living here 39 years and never seen nothing like that in my life. Not here.” “I had to ask them to move and then one young lady said, ‘Whose mother came to the party?’” said Annette Glasgow-Wilson. “Of course, if I’m on my property, I’m not at the party.” A party it was; residents say thousands showed up, crowding into the small park and wandering around the neighborhood. “All in the street, up and down the street, urinating in people’s yards and stuff,” said Jerome Lofty. Nathan Johnson added, “I mean drunk—people falling in yards, knocking on the doors, asking to use the bathrooms.” Police and fire/EMS crews arrived on scene as fights broke out. Three people were taken away by ambulance and three people were arrested. “Why would the recreation department give them a permit?” Lofty asked. The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation said it issued a permit for a family reunion of 51 to 100 people. “From what I understand, it was what they call a ‘flash mob’ and thousands of people showed up here in North Michigan Park,” said Keith Ander
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WASHINGTON (WJLA) – The D.C. government apologized Monday after it issued a permit for a family reunion over the weekend that got out of control. It happened late Saturday along Emerson Street NE, near the North Michigan Park Recreation Center. Area residents say on Saturday afternoon college-age people started showing up with alcohol and bad manners, trampling yards. One resident said, “I’ve been living here 39 years and never seen nothing like that in my life. Not here.” “I had to ask them to move and then one young lady said, ‘Whose mother came to the party?’” said Annette Glasgow-Wilson. “Of course, if I’m on my property, I’m not at the party.” A party it was; residents say thousands showed up, crowding into the small park and wandering around the neighborhood. “All in the street, up and down the street, urinating in people’s yards and stuff,” said Jerome Lofty. Nathan Johnson added, “I mean drunk—people falling in yards, knocking on the doors, asking to use the bathrooms.” Police and fire/EMS crews arrived on scene as fights broke out. Three people were taken away by ambulance and three people were arrested. “Why would the recreation department give them a permit?” Lofty asked. The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation said it issued a permit for a family reunion of 51 to 100 people. “From what I understand, it was what they call a ‘flash mob’ and thousands of people showed up here in North Michigan Park,” said Keith Ander
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