During Memorial Day Weekend, a well-known Jersey Shore beach resort temporarily declared a state of emergency due to unruly scenes and an adolescent stabbing.
Due to “the extremely large number of young adults and juveniles that were in the city for the Memorial Day weekend,” Wildwood, New Jersey police reacted to a “irrepressible number of calls for service” on Saturday.
Authorities say that on Saturday during a scuffle in neighboring Ocean City, a 15-year-old was stabbed. The teenager was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and several arrests were made. Videos posted on social media show that the stabbing drove throngs of people racing along the boardwalk.
Joseph Murphy, the chief of police in Wildwood, informed local authorities on Sunday “that there were emergent conditions because of civil unrest endangering the public health.”
Early on Monday morning, a state of emergency was announced; however, it was abolished at around six in the morning.
A Wildwood shop owner who shut down his doors at midnight on Sunday told that the situation seemed calm at the moment.
“Wildwood will not tolerate unruly, undisciplined, unparented children nor will we stand by while the laws of the state tie the hands of the police,” Mayor Ernie Troiano, Jr, stated. “We wholeheartedly support the City of Wildwood Police Department in protecting this community from these nuisance crowds on our boardwalk and in the city.”
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