Saturday night was anything but quiet in St. Louis, as rolling street takeovers in multiple neighborhoods spiraled into violence that left seven people shot and officers using spike strips on roughly 50 cars. Videos and neighborhood posts showed crowds circling vehicles, drifting in busy intersections and, in some clips, bursts of gunfire that rattled residents. Emergency crews rushed to several crossroads across the city, working scene by scene to clear wreckage and treat the wounded.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the chaos unfolded at several major intersections in what witnesses and officers described as rolling “slide shows” that drew large, shifting crowds. The paper reports that seven people were hit by gunfire and that officers deployed spike…..