This is still terrifying: Police respond to multiple citywide, social media-organized street takeovers [Video]

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – Police in Cleveland said they responded to several “street takeovers” all across the city Saturday night.

According to Police Chief Dorothy Todd, the takeovers involved individuals shutting down traffic, shooting off fireworks, attempting to light fires and shooting at officers with pellet guns.

Todd said the calls came in for multiple locations of vehicles gathering and blocking traffic after 11 p.m.

Some of the locations included:

• West 25th Street and Lorain
• Roses Plaza on West 65th Street
• Steelyard Commons
• East 105th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
• East 93rd Street and Opportunity Corridor
• East 55th and Woodland Avenue
• I-90 West Freeway near West 14th Street

Todd said I-90 had been shut down by the suspects who blocked traffic, shot off fireworks and tried to light fires.

She said they were unsuccessful at lighting the fires because of the wet roadways.

Melvyn Beck, a party bus driver, said his bus was stopped …