Large crowd and double-parked cars block traffic on Ocean Ave, Jersey City NJ
A large crowd gathered on Van Ostrom between The Drive and Ocean Avenue with many cars double parked. This caused safety and traffic issues as the crowd threatened parking authority personnel whenever they tried to respond.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
01:22
Transcript:
00:00
Just advising you after you just walked over and said that on Van Austrin between the drive and ocean is a large crowd over there with a ton of double parked cars and they said that parking authority won't send anyone out because I guess they've been getting calls about it. Every time they go they get threatened by the crowd.
00:28
Alright, do we have some units we can send through and hit the sirens, get over the PA and see if they can move those cars so their route is clear?
00:43
As of right now, everyone's tied up.
00:54
T.D.
00:55
You wrapped up with that traffic stop?
01:00
That's correct.
01:01
One issue, what do you have going on?
01:04
Get over to Ocean and Van Ostrand.
01:06
The FDA sent a call stating that there's some kind of large gathering between the drive and ocean on Van Ostrom.
01:13
Multiple double-park cars.
01:15
You head over there and see if you can start getting it cleared out.
01:20
From the South Sargent.
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Ocean Ave, Jersey City, NJ
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