The Brief
- Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield joined the teens who organized a downtown takeover of the city to find better ways for kids to spend their time.
- With summer coming soon, the city wants to find ways for young people to safely and responsibly spend their time.
(FOX 2) – The Detroit mayor hopes to work with young people to ensure they have enough things to do for the upcoming summer.
The most recent “teen takeover” — a gathering of kids that’s organized on social media and includes crowds of teens collecting in public spaces — led to a surge of police taking young people into custody.
Mary Sheffield hopes to curb that behavior while providing other activities for young people to spend their time doing. And she invited the people that sparked the idea for the event to join her.…