{"id":76173,"date":"2025-12-08T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76173\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:52:07","slug":"teens-that-swarmed-hialeah-neighborhood-for-door-kick-challenge-will-not-be-charged-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76173\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens that swarmed Hialeah neighborhood for \u2018door kick challenge\u2019 will not be charged \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several teenagers who were seen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/door-kick-challenge-tiktok-video-hialeah\/3730273\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/door-kick-challenge-tiktok-video-hialeah\/3730273\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> swarming a Hialeah neighborhood<\/a> on Thursday night to participate in a trend where teens kick doors and run away were identified, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hialeah Police, the incident happened on Dec. 4 at the apartment complex at 6435 West 4th Avenue, where surveillance video captured the teens doing a TikTok trend called \u201cthe door kick challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the teens caused damage to the property, which included a broken window and a damaged door.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>During their investigation, officers were able to identify the teens involved, who were 12 to 15 years old, and their parents were contacted.<\/p>\n<p>The teens involved in the destructive trend will not face any criminal charges after the victims declined to do so, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the teens&#8217; parents agreed to pay for all the damages caused during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe door kick challenge\u201d has been spreading across the U.S., and authorities are warning that teenagers who participate in the challenge will be identified and could face legal consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several teenagers who were seen swarming a Hialeah neighborhood on Thursday night to participate in a trend where&hellip;\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],"class_list":{"0":"post-76173","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76173","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=76173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76173\/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=76173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}