Washington Metropolitan Police had to break up a brawl of juveniles over the weekend at a Wawa store in the Tenleytown area of the district.
The police had initially reported that they had to break up a crowd of “approximately three hundred juveniles,” but later the number became 50 juveniles, with only 10 juveniles that were actively involved in the fight.
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It is unclear where the juveniles came from and what caused the fight just before 8 p.m. on Friday night.
District police had increased law enforcement presence at the nearby high school in Washington on Monday afternoon following the weekend brawl.
The violence at the Tenleytown location of the Wawa store is not the only store to have crime problems, according to Washington political analyst Chuck Thies.
“DC has already lost one Wawa (Columbia Heights) due to shoplifting and other miscreant behavior. The Tenley store has constant issues with students and bans them during peak before- and after-school hours,” Thies said.
DC has already lost one @Wawa (Columbia Heights) due to shoplifting and other miscreant behavior.
The Tenley store has constant issues with students and bans them during peak before- and after-school hours.
DC is a fucking mess. https://t.co/XFZSKqKw0E
— Chuck Thies (@ChuckThies) October 15, 2023
Washington police officers had responded to the massive group at Wawa on Friday for a “disorderly affray.”
The incident adds to the latest string of stories of violence in the nation’s capital.
Last Thursday, Washington Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee that violent crime in Washington has become a “crisis.”
“Oxford defines a crisis as a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger. So I would say that we find ourselves in an intense time of trouble or danger, so I would say there is a crisis,” Appiah said.
“Crime is out of control and everybody knows it. More importantly, everybody knows why. When you defund the police and you have prosecutors who go soft on crime, you get more crime,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said at the hearing.
The rise of juvenile crime in the district has been reflected in the disturbing rise of carjackings.
However, Washington is not the city to have chaos break out in a Wawa.
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In 2020, a Florida man almost lost his pants in a fight at a Broward County Wawa.
In 2022, a Philadelphia Wawa was famously ransacked by a group of juveniles, and one woman went viral for still insisting her sandwich to be made amid the chaos.
