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In today’s modern culture, it is much more prevalent for people to watch bad things happen to others or perhaps film it on their smartphones instead of physically or verbally stepping in.

It was nearly another such incident for Ashley Knutson and Devante Garrison-Johnson. The young couple were visiting Chicago last weekend, which was unfortunate for them because that weekend was the “Teen Takeover,” wherein teens from the Southside and West Chicago storm the Magnificent Mile. It has become a yearly event.

This year’s “Teen Takeover” was organized on social media, and marauding hordes of teens flooded downtown, especially in the Loop area. Knutson and Garrison-Johnson had just finished shopping and were looking for a place to eat. They waded through a rowdy crowd of teens who decided to start…