SMH! DOZENS OF TEENS IN OHIO GET ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING A 9 P.M. CURFEW!

Philadelphia teens breaking curfew are losing a lot more than their car keys.

Dozens of teenagers were arrested in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend for violating a new curfew policy aimed at keeping bands of marauding thugs off the streets.

Mayor Michael Nutter earlier this week called for kids younger than 18 to be off the streets by 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays in response to a recent string of violent attacks by teenage mobs.

Some 50 teens in the neighborhoods of Center City and University City were rounded up on Friday, police said. On Saturday, 12 teens were arrested.

"We're going to take this very seriously," police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "We're setting a tone, and that's important."

Philly teens sought to test the new rules by staying out on the streets past the cutoff on the first night of the policy.

"They shouldn't be able to violate my rights," Ryan Stanton, 16, told the paper, as he hung out with friends on South Street shortly before 9 p.m. on Friday.

"If the cops ask me, I'm going to explain why I have the right to assemble peacefully."

Fifteen minutes later, Stanton was in a police van, headed to a station house so his parents could pick him up, the Inquirer said.

First offenders can be fined between $100 and $300, and parents can be fined up to $500 if their kids violate the rule repeatedly.

In other parts of the city, children under 13 must be off the streets by 10 p.m., and those under 18 must be home by midnight.

Swarms of teens have been using Facebook and Twitter to coordinate violent sprees across downtown Philadelphia for months.

In one rampage last month, a man ended up in the hospital with broken teeth and a shattered jaw after a group of teens jumped him. Hours later, a crowd of young people, including an 11-year-old boy, attacked four men.

In another incident, a woman was punched in the face and broke her leg.

Nutter blamed the violence on a small number of "complete knuckleheads."

"You've damaged yourself, you've damaged another person, you've damaged your peers and, quite honestly, you've damaged your own race," the 54-year-old mayor, who is black, said at his West Philadelphia church last week.

He also lectured parents in the city's African-American communities about taking responsibility for their children.

"That's part of the problem in the black community. ... We have too many men making too many babies they don't want to take care of and then we end up dealing with your children," Nutter said.


C'MON SON! A 9 P.M. CURFEW IS F**KING CRAZY! I'M IN THE HOOD WHERE BABIES BE OUT TILL 1 A.M. DURING THE SUMMER LIKE DAVE CHAPELLE SAID! WTF! IS THAT A BABY ON THE CORNER SELLING WEED! YEAH! THAT'S MY HOOD! BUT 9 P.M. IS RIDICULOUS!



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