In another example of how social media can get kids into trouble, there\u2019s a disturbing trend going around on TikTok, daring teenagers to kick doors and run away. They call it \u201cthe door kick challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
An apparent example of this phenomenon happened in a Hialeah apartment complex Thursday night. The security camera video shows a swarm of teenage boys, about a dozen, arriving on bicycles all at once before going on a rampage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd hit every single window and hit every door, went upstairs, hit the doors upstairs, broke windows and everything,\u201d said Ana Rojas, a resident of the building, who told NBC6 it was crazy. \u201cYeah, which was out of nowhere because I\u2019ve never heard that happening around here.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are broken windows, one apartment\u2019s door frame is cracked, and a lot of nerves are seriously frazzled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I believe it was really scary because they hit every single window, they hit on doors, and there\u2019s children here, so that\u2019s pretty scary for every family,\u201d Rojas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office released a video of a “door kick challenge” incident in which deputies arrested several teenagers. The 911 call is typical.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c911, where is your emergency?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSweet Brier Branch Lane, someone just tried to kick in our front door,\u201d the homeowner answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any reported here in the city of Miami, I think that this is something that might be under-reported because victims might feel like, why bother the police for something this simple,\u201d said Officer Mike Vega from the Miami Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hialeah incident lasted only about one minute before the boys took off on their bikes, but that\u2019s enough time to get in serious trouble. Vega says kids are not thinking about the potential consequences.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen these kids are doing this, they think it\u2019s funny, a fun game for them, but you don\u2019t know the condition of the person that is inside that house, you don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going through, they hear this knocking at the house, they have a gun with them, they\u2019re gonna come out with their guns at hand,\u201d Vega said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy husband was gonna open the door with our gun but he did not,\u201d the woman in the 911 call from St. John\u2019s County said, which illustrates Vega\u2019s point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTalk to the kids, tell \u2018em, hey, this could be a crime, and parents, talk to your kids and tell \u2018em the seriousness of committing this challenge that they\u2019re calling on TikTok,\u201d the veteran Miami Police officer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In another part of the video from the St. John\u2019s County Sheriff\u2019s Office, you see a deputy talking to the boys he has just arrested on his body-worn camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the hell are you guys doing out here acting like this? You guys want to get shot by a homeowner when you kick their front door and they think you\u2019re breaking in to kill them?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In another example of how social media can get kids into trouble, there\u2019s a disturbing trend going around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,2033],"class_list":{"0":"post-73203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news","11":"tag-only-on-6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}