Second chances huh? On Wednesday, March 25. 2026 Fox News ran a familiar headline, “Out-of-control teen mob in DC reveals failure of blue city soft-on-crime policies.”
Last weekend, roughly 200 juveniles flooded Navy Yard, one of the city’s busiest dining and nightlife districts. What followed was exactly the kind of chaos D.C. residents have become far too used to: fights, robberies, businesses locking their doors, terrified residents ducking inside, two guns recovered and a 15-year-old accused of firing shots into the air. Three juveniles were reportedly robbed. Two of them were beaten badly enough to go to the hospital.
And my first thought when I saw the videos was not shock. It was, “Oh no, not again.” That is the problem.
These so-called teen takeovers are no longer being treated like a five-alarm warning. They are becoming background noise in a city that has started normalizing behavior that should never be normal.
Navy Yard residents have been sounding the alarm for months. There were similar incidents last year, including large, disorderly gatherings, fights and Halloween chaos that required a law enforcement response.
The response from too many people, especially online, has been the same tired excuse-making. The kids need more places to go. They need more recreation centers. They need more third spaces.
Please. We are not living in 1998. These are not kids wandering around looking for an open gym at 10 p.m. They are on their phones. They are on TikTok. They are organizing online and meeting up in places where adults live, work, eat and spend money. And even if they were not, the answer to a 12-year-old or 13-year-old being out in a chaotic nightlife district late at night is not to invent a better hangout spot. The answer is that they should be at home.
“There has to be an ending to some second chances no matter your age.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, centrally based in Harrison, Arkansas. “As a father, sometimes when my children were younger they got second chances when acting out, but my children were raised responsibly, they were not out looting and firing firearms into the air creating chaos for everyone around them. In other words, the weren’t menaces to society like some youth are today. There is a big difference. Youth of color today are given a longer leash than their White peers. I saw video of this mob and as usual it was a majority of black youth, but I am seeing more and more White youths joining in on these mobs and I think it is because White kids are seeing black kids getting away with these types of behaviors and maybe some White kids think it looks exciting and maybe the new fad. If you are the parent of a White child you had better sit them down and explain today’s two tiered justice and how it works. If you don’t, you may end up seeing your child being hauled of to juvenile hall until they turn 18, and depending on what they did, may prison after they turn 18. These black mobs are creating havoc behind the scenes with White parents and their children. We always hear how some black parents have to sit their kids down and give them they talk about how hard of a life they are going to have just because they’re black, and maybe it’s time for White parents to sit their kids down and have the talk about how hard of a life they will have if they start acting like the black kids. Your White children won’t get the second chances given to the black youth of today.”
