I was out on Michigan Avenue outside of Harlan Thursday afternoon about 3 PM. There were still a decent crowd of young people outside the school fanning out in different directions. First I saw police officers running to their cruiser. Next I saw students heading towards the adjacent Abbott Park directly north!
I was near 97th Street at this point and I decided let's see what I can see although I didn't get any closer to the action. A police car appeared to have stopped at 96th Street and I decided to walk back down Michigan. The crowd seemed to have calmed down and dispersed from near one of the baseball diamonds in Abbott Park adjacent to the school.
I keep checking back on the action at the school and I see that the police pulled up to a van. I can't say if anyone was pulled out of the van, however, I did see that the police were checking that van out and had the doors open.
BTW, I can't prove there was a fight near Harlan as I didn't see it. Perhaps I was going by what happened in my day (years ago) when if a fight was breaking out students would run to it. Who knows it was probably the most exciting thing to see, unfortunately.
Outside of Harlan, in the surrounding neighborhood, it's not something I would want to see. Especially if I want to think positively about our young people.
In any case if you saw what happened sometime after 3 PM on Thursday near Harlan Community Academy please leave a comment or send an e-mail. Let's see if we can create a more complete story than I have presented by my own eyewitness account.
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