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Posted on 04/02/2022 3:48:08 PM PDT by simpson96
PEORIA (Heart of Illinois ABC) - Chaos at the Peoria Chuck E. Cheese where food, drinks, and punches were thrown.
Police said one adult and one juvenile were arrested at that location and the night before 6 people were arrested at another fight at the Landmark Recreation Center.
Residents said the fighting concerned them and made them rethink where and when they came out.
“I find that I wouldn’t go to the mall at night time cause I know there was a lot of fights there too,” Mapleton resident Lisa Sweet said.
“We want to go places with our families and not have to worry about things like that happening,” Peoria resident,” Jeabria Lester said.
Both of the weekend fights had something in common; they happened at places where children frequent leaving some asking witnessing these fights affected our youth.
“For the children who that is not a typical part of their experience, those types of situations can be very overwhelming for them,” Clinical psychologist Barbara Toohill said. “For the children who maybe have been exposed to more of those types of situations in their lives, unfortunately it contributes to some desensitization.”
Toohill said any violence could negatively impact children, but violence in places that are expected to be safe poses an additional threat to mental health.
“For any of us, if no place was safe, we would all develop just always being on edge, always carrying some tension.” Toohill said.
Police Chief Eric Echevarria said he was disappointed with the fights and the adults that fought and recorded it.
“In our community they need to be responsible for what’s happening,” Echevarria said. “Is Chuck E. Cheese the place now that we need to be walking through every day and making sure that people are acting accordingly?”
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The Pandemic is officially over.
“In our community they need to be responsible for what’s happening,” Echevarria said. “Is Chuck E. Cheese the place now that we need to be walking through every day and making sure that people are acting accordingly?”
These news readers may be shocked, but, this is far from the first altercation to ever happen at a Chuck E. Cheese.
Annnnd...It’s feral inner-city types.
Why am I not surprised?
Fault of White supremacy again.
And now, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
Didn’t have to go into article, knew who the brawlers were.
Our Chuck E. Cheese has really gone downhill in recent years.
Landmark center always was a problem (it has movies, bowling, etc)
The Northwoods Mall , across the road from Chuck E, Cheese, had many large fights at Round One when it opened a few years back. They added more security and literally opened a small police station inside the mall
any guesses what these spots have in common?
Not enought racists?
Like Chris Rock said, there are two kinds of malls:
The malls the white people go to.
And
The malls the white people used to go to.
Wazzat?
Guess whoooooooooooooooooo?
Just two people arrested? An adult and one juvenile?
Everyone was throwing punches. Nothing is going to happen to the two arrested. Why even bother?
They should install firehouses at these locations, and just start spraying them all, if they can’t behave.
This is too much.
I meant “Firehoses”.
DEC 2020
Northwoods Mall was the site of an ugly sight Saturday night. Peoria police said about 200 juveniles and adults brawled in both levels of the mall and in the parking lot.
Officers fired pepper balls into the crowd and closed the mall in reaction to the fight, which police said began about 5:45 p.m. near a food court.
After the opening of the Round1 bowling and entertainment center in late 2017, there were two incidents within about a week.
In the initial incident, a fight that began inside Round1 spilled into the mall’s public area. Police cleared the mall, but what happened Saturday night sounded more serious and widespread.
2016
Fight at Chuck E Cheese’s, Police Call for Back up
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/fight-at-chuck-e-cheeses-police-call-for-back-up/
were they Amish Canadians?
Damned cotton !
I don’t look anymore. I’ve learned to assume its the Amish again, and again, and again......
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