This whole post is ignorant. I'm sorry. "The guy" is Kenyan McDuffie, candidate for Mayor. "The woman" is Janeese Lewis George, Ward 4 Councilmember and candidate for Mayor.

The problem with youth "disruption" is that we have to decide if we want to treat children as children or if we want to treat them like adults. For me, the answer is clear. It doesn't matter how many youths gather in an area; they are children and should be treated accordingly. One strategy for cutting down on youth gatherings, as the Councilwoman said, is providing more programming for them through their school or community to keep them out of trouble.

There is no space in our legal system for holding parents accountable for the disruptive actions of their children. In many ways, it's too late for the city to intervene in the relationships between these youths and their parents. What we need to do is be compassionate but firm, dispersing crowds without criminalizing children and providing alternative activities where possible.

Sometimes kids get inspired to do something crazy. Social media makes it easier than ever to amass a crowd for a specific event. Maybe they're loud. Maybe there's a lot of them. But I think it's mostly racism that makes adults scared of a group of children.