A chaotic street brawl involving Chicago police and a large crowd erupted on the city’s West Side Friday evening, sparked by the arrest of a 22-year-old man, according to a Chicago Police Department report.
The incident, captured in a viral video circulating online over the weekend, unfolded around 6:45 p.m. in the 100 block of North Lockwood, drawing dozens of officers to the scene after a “10-1” police emergency was declared.
One responding unit “observed a large crowd surrounding the officers,” while cops in another squad car reported “well over a hundred people surrounding officers in the middle of the street.” The officers established a perimeter to keep the crowd away from the man in the squad car, Tyler Perkins…