{"id":162725,"date":"2026-04-10T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:35:10","slug":"police-in-pittsburgh-suburb-warn-public-of-new-trend-that-has-kids-kicking-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162725\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Pittsburgh suburb warn public of new trend that has kids kicking doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are warning people about a troubling trend in McKees Rocks. They said kids are kicking front doors before running away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad, it makes the community look bad,&#8221; Oscar Hall of McKees Rocks said.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BJGho2Aw7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a>, the McKees Rocks Police Department said it has been made aware of a new trend where young people kick front doors repeatedly before running off.<\/p>\n<p>It said no one has been injured, but that some reports of property damage have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Several incidents are being investigated, and those who are participating in this trend will be held accountable, police wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Police also warned that the trend can be dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing this or any community needs is a deadly force incident over what these young kids think is a trendy joke,&#8221; the department wrote on Facebook Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re advising neighbors to talk to their children, and other children they know about this, and advising them against it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need all hands on deck,&#8221; Hall said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are warning people about a troubling trend in McKees Rocks. They said kids are kicking front doors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3313,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-162725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-mckees-rocks","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}