The U.S. Attorney’s Office is cracking down on the nationwide phenomenon of “teen takeovers,” which are often violent and chaotic, as the office renewed its vow on Monday to begin prosecuting parents of unruly adolescents after a recent bout of these gatherings in Washington.
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, warned parents at a Monday press conference that they could be held liable for their children’s actions following another takeover this past weekend at a Chipotle in Washington’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
“What we’re seeing increasingly across the District is not only unacceptable, it is violent, it is dangerous, and it is illegal,” Pirro said. “I am here to tell you it is going to stop.”…