Who's afraid of teen takeovers?
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, today explained Sean Ramos for him here in Washington, D.C., where the biggest story over the weekend was the guy with the gun at the dinner with the president. |
| 0:08.7 | Big crime. |
| 0:09.8 | And we're going to talk more about that on the show tomorrow. |
| 0:12.7 | But on the show today, we're going to talk about smaller crimes here in Washington. |
| 0:16.9 | Have you heard about the teen takeovers? |
| 0:20.1 | A ton of teenagers get together in a corner of the city on, say, Saturday night, and there's good times, but also inevitably, there's shenanigans. |
| 0:29.5 | Police say nearly 200 young people were involved Saturday night. |
| 0:34.2 | Two robberies were reported. Someone fired off gunshots in the air. |
| 0:37.7 | If some of these kids need to spend a night or two in jail in order to feel that their repercussions to their actions, then so be it. It's not just a DC thing, though. Teen takeovers have been happening in Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, Los Angeles. So on the show today, we're going to ask what's to be done when summer's around the corner and the kids just want to have fun, but also there's some petty larceny and property damage. |
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| 2:10.2 | What do you think today explained this? |
| 2:14.9 | I don't know. |
| 2:18.2 | Jenny Gathright is a Washington Post reporter who writes about the nation's capital. |
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