EPISODE · Jun 22, 2026 · 6 MIN
The City of Columbia has banned kids after 5pm in Finely Park
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
The City of Columbia has implemented a permanent, daily 5:00 PM chaperone policy for minors aged 17 and under at Finlay Park following violent juvenile incidents. During The Charlie James Show, the policy was analyzed for its impact on public space access and its role in addressing local security concerns.
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00:00 Ah, Juneteenth, it was a big celebration. In fact, the biggest celebration in South Carolina for Juneteenth was in Columbia, where they celebrated um at a Juneteenth festival, um family event, that food trucks out there, they had performers out there. The performing is just everybody. Everybody was having a good time. They were laughing, they were singing, they were dancing, they were writing, they were beating people down. 00:29 They were throwing punch. Wait a minute. What did I say? Did I say something wrong, JJ? Did I skip over something there? Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, the rioting thing. Yeah. Oh yeah. We got to, I guess, I guess we got to talk about the rioting thing at the Juneteenth uh Festival um this weekend. So now because what happened at Juneteenth and I don't know which park they had this in. 00:58 in Columbia, but now the city has banned all unaccompanied kids from the park after 5 p.m. permanently, from now until the end of time. So I don't know what the age limit here is, but if you're a kid, you can't go to the park without an adult now because of this, which is 5 o'clock. 5 o'clock, that's it. 01:28 So you get it. Yeah, but it won't be this winter. It won't be this fall. I guarantee you. JJ is like, it's still light. officials in Columbia, South Carolina have now banned unaccompanied minors under 17 at Finley Park after 5 p.m. following an aggressive teen takeover that shut down this weekend's Juneteenth Festival. Four people. 01:57 were arrested in this thing. this is a huge problem. And you know who's not covering this problem really fully enough? The mainstream media. Because these teen takeovers are being perpetrated primarily by young African-American teenagers. And the networks don't want to appear to be racist. So they can't report on it. Can't report on that. 02:27 I'm not going to tell you what JJ just said. I'm not going to tell you. I had to giggle, but I'm not going to tell you what he just said. There you go. There you go. Bad youth is a term for bad youth. So they banned all of that. But that wasn't the worst happening of the weekend. know, Juneteenth this weekend, almost 40 people were shot in Chicago this weekend. 02:58 So they're like, whoa, Obama Library, we got Juneteenth going on, bang, bang, bang. 39 people shot, six people fatally shot in Chicago this weekend, according to police. A pair of drive-by shooters injured at least 13 people on the South Side Friday night. And how did Mayor Johnson respond to the shootings? Well, he didn't. 03:27 He didn't respond to the shootings. This is what Mayor Brandon Johnson posted. For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming. Since declaring a transfemicide state of emergency, uh transfemicide, and they got a word for it now. 03:57 It's transfemicide. Oh, okay. Gotcha. I get it. No word about the 30. No. You don't want to talk about the 39 people that know you don't want you don't talk about the shooting. No, you don't talk about that. Well, people over on on the some guy posted Mr. Johnson. By my count, 15 transgender individuals were killed in Chicago over the last decade. That's one point five per year based on the cited rate of zero point five percent of adults. 04:27 That works out to a homicide rate of about 14 per 100,000 transgender residents per year of transgender residents. During that same period, Chicago averaged about 645 homicides per year for the rest of the city's population. That works out to roughly 24 homicides per 100,000 non-trans residents per year. If 14 per 100,000 is a state of emergency, what do you call 24? 04:56 per 100,000. And he's absolutely right. Let's go to Jarrett in Morganton. How you doing, Jarrett? I'm good. How are you, Charlie? I'm fantastic. What's going on, Not much, but you you're talking about all that down at the park down there. I bet you'v ...
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