CWBChicago announced the Chicago Police Department (CPD) started an internal investigation of claims that cops drove past a mob attacking a couple during the weekend’s “Teenage Takeover.”
The mob of teenagers attacked and beat Ashley Knutson, 20, and her boyfriend, Devontae “DJ” Johnson, 22.
Knutson and Johnson were holding hands when the mob encountered them. They shoved Johnson and then Knutson.
Everything exploded when Johnson told them not to touch Knutson. You cannot see Johnson in the video because the mob already pushed him to the ground.
The Good Samaritan, Lenora Dennis, took the couple to the police station and gave them money. The teenagers took their phones, credit cards, and shoes.
Johnson bled “from the mouth, his head, his eyes.” Dennis said he couldn’t make eye contact.
Lenora Dennis took a video of the attack and issued a scathing statement on her Instagram.
Dennis witnessed at least five police cars drive by and do nothing:
In the 45 years, I’ve lived in this city and ALL of the things I’ve seen AND experienced living on every side of this city. Last night was one of the most DISGUSTING, DEPRESSING, RIDICULOUS displays I have ever witnessed. I watched a mob of hooligan’s attack and viciously BEAT an interracial couple on Wabash, I watched several, at least 5, police cars drive by while this attack was in progress. I watched teenage children jump on the hoods of people’s cars, smashing windshields and causing several thousands of dollars of property damage. The desk sergeant at the 1st District told me to MY face that this is happening because @Brandon4Chicago was elected and he IS the wrong person to get a handle on this situation.
“I felt like I was watching the city devolve into complete and utter chaos like the Joker was finna pop on the scene,” added Dennis.
This is horrible:
“I literally went in front of a police car that I saw coming, like literally stood in front of their car, and I was like ‘stop! There’s people over here getting assaulted,’ and he looked, there were four police officers in the car. The driver looked, and he just cut a path and drove around me,” Dennis told NBC5 yesterday.The couple confirmed Dennis’ story about police officers not stopping to help.“[The police] almost had to avoid the collision to get past us, but they just drove by the incident in the middle of the street,” Ashley said on Fox News.“Cops drove right by it. Acted like they didn’t see anything,” DJ added.“They were going to kill that young man,” Dennis recalled in an interview with WGN. “They were stomping his head into the concrete.”
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