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Viral confrontation: couple vs. teens
A confrontation between a Chicago couple and a group of teens, is going viral. Video shows a man throwing water onto the kids as they were leaving a dance studio Friday night.
CHICAGO - A confrontation outside an Avondale dance studio has gone viral, after a couple is seen on video shouting at children and throwing liquid at them, while making racial comments.
What we know:
The children were leaving classes at with their parents, walking out the back of the building to their cars.
Parents recorded video when the tension escalated.
Children were leaving Ballet Folklorico de Chicago on Friday night at 10 p.m., the close of business.
A woman and man yelled at them about noise.
Police say the man threw multiple cups of an unknown liquid at them, hitting some of the children.
Thirteen-year-old Damian Guerrero felt the liquid on his back. He said, "The neighbor upstairs came out, started yelling at everyone, saying, ‘Oh you don’t belong here, hope ICE comes to get you.’ He was yelling racial slurs to us."
Fourteen-year-old Quetzali Estrada said, "He was cursing us out, saying we were lucky ICE wasn’t here. It was just a bit, it was a lot. He was yelling it, and it was very terrifying."
Violeta Ochoa Salabert has 2 children who take classes there. She said, "It’s scary, it’s actually scary because we didn’t know how much this person was going to escalate it, especially after using attacks like that towards us, especially those types of words."
Children were crying, as parents tried to escort them to their cars.
Ballet Folklorico provides dance classes to celebrate Mexican heritage. They partner with Chicago Public Schools to offer after-school cultural programs.
The studio has been open since May.
No one answered the door of the apartment in question. Chicago police are investigating.
Doris Giraldo’s son witnessed the incident. She said, "It’s inexcusable, it’s wrong, it’s very heartbreaking that you wouldn’t think twice before you lash out your anger at children."
Maria Guerrero would like to see a restraining order against the neighbor. She said, "I want it to be where he does not address these kids. If he has an issue where it was something of a problem, come to talk to an adult."
The Source: This story contains reporting from Fox Chicago's Joanie Lum.