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I thought it was over-hyped too and I even posted so here in this forum, but I talked to a cousin who is a CPD officer and he told me it actually had occurred in Chicago a lot more than the few instances which made the news.
Quite a bit more
He recounted six incidents that never made the news, they happened at retailers downtown, and three incidents that were flash mobbing at the beach but they weren't reported as such.
If a dozen delinquints in a pack roving the beach, decide to pick on someone and steal their pop money - it's just a mugging.
If a dozen delinquints come from six different directions and suddenly descend on some poor guy, beat him up and take his pop money and then dissapear to the four corners of the Earth - it's a flash mob. But to the victim and the responding officers it's hard to tell the difference, one from the other.
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