Managers of nearby businesses who had a clear view said the crowds this past Saturday night started out peaceful and then quickly got out of hand.
As CBS 2's Shardaa Gray reported, managers of nearby businesses who had a clear view said it started out peaceful and then quickly got out of hand.
"I have to lock the doors, because otherwise - who knows?" said Jesus Delvalle, manager of Cantina on Madison – located in the Mallers Building at 69 E. Madison St."They might come in here and start shooting people." "It was a few people who came in and then they were like, 'Please let us stay here. We don't know what to do. It seems like a safe place,'" Delvalle said."And I said, 'Yes, go ahead, come on in.'""A lot of the customers that were in here, they decided to stay here because it wasn't safe out there," Delvalle said."We saw police running back and forth, trying to chase the kids who they thought had the gun on them. It was scary.
"It started off kind of peaceful and then it got into throwing bottles, jumping on cars," Hoxie said."Some people maybe jumped some guests.""I said, 'Could you please not be here this is private property and most of them, they were good," Hoxie said."But when everybody gets together and that buzz starts going and then people start getting wound up, it just seems like everything turns.
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