Seamus Bozeman
Los Angeles Times
July 24, 2026 - 8:26 am
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department successful Santa Clarita has issued a informing on Facebook that the latest nationwide TikTok societal media situation has begun to deed adjacent to home.
According to the agency, the latest TikTok situation involves teenagers signaling themselves attempting to “kick successful the beforehand doors of homes earlier moving away.” The teens often stock videos of their actions connected societal media platforms.
Over the past 2 months, astir a twelve of these door-kicking incidents person been reported that resulted successful spot damages successful the Santa Clarita area, but that fig whitethorn beryllium an undercount, Shirley Miller, a sheriff’s nationalist accusation officer, told the Los Angeles Times.
In a Facebook post, the Sheriff’s Department urged residents successful the country to “make definite your doors are locked” and to guarantee that “your doorbell cameras are moving properly.” Many residents who person doorbell cameras person mentioned to authorities and reported to online forums akin door-kicking incidents, Miller said.
In summation to securing homes, the section besides advised parents to sermon the inclination with their teens.
“What whitethorn look similar a harmless prank for societal media is really a crime,” the bureau said successful the post. “It tin effect successful felony vandalism charges and creates a unsafe concern for everyone involved.”
In addition, the section warned that the idiosyncratic down the doorway could deliberation that idiosyncratic is trying to interruption in, and “the idiosyncratic kicking the doorway ne'er knows what whitethorn beryllium waiting connected the different side.”
Residents are encouraged to interaction authorities if 1 of these door-kicking incidents instrumentality spot astatine their property.
“A fewer seconds of online attraction isn’t worthy a transgression record, a superior injury, oregon worse,” the section said successful the post.
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