{"id":209664,"date":"2026-04-25T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:41:10","slug":"news-12-connecticut-fairfield-carnival-canceled-due-to-disorderly-crowds-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209664\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Fairfield Carnival Canceled Due To Disorderly Crowds Safety Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Jennings Beach Carnival that was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday has been canceled following significant public safety concerns following the events that took place Friday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Friday night saw Fairfield and Bridgeport police officers respond to large, disorderly crowds, made up of mostly unsupervised juveniles according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say that throughout the evening many reported potential gun shots which led to panic and crowd surges.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say that they have found no evidence to confirm that shots had been fired.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The situation continued to escalate and led to crowds gathering at a surrounding Chick-Fil-A, where additional fights broke out.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Fairfield Police Department and State Police were able to handle the situation and protect public safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the decision to cancel the remainder of the carnival was made in the interest of public safety and supported by the McKinley PTA, which sponsored the carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jennings Beach Carnival that was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday has been canceled following significant public safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-209664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}