Dystopian moment terrified man is chased down by pack of smirking teenagers in crime-ridden Washington DC before being beaten up

The dystopian infinitesimal a battalion of teens chased down a terrified man connected nan streets of Washington DC has been caught connected camera. 

A motorist shared his dashcam footage of nan feral incident extracurricular a riverside flat artifact astatine Buzzard Point successful nan southbound of nan metropolis connected Monday night. 

The 16-second clip shows a man successful shorts and t-shirt sprinting down nan thoroughfare betwixt 2 parked cars, pinch 3 teenagers tailing him astatine astir 11.30pm. 

He looks complete his enarthrosis conscionable successful clip for a 4th teen to look from his correct broadside and return a moving swipe astatine him. 

The man puts his hands successful nan aerial to take sides himself and keeps moving arsenic nan 4th teen hurtles retired of view. 

The unfortunate past sprints straight successful beforehand of nan dashcam and appears to get distant from 3 of nan teens, who travel to a halt correct successful beforehand of nan car. 

But one, wearing a achromatic Nike t-shirt and a drawstring container connected his back, keeps charging astatine nan man retired of position arsenic nan others watch and smirk. 

Two bent backmost and watch from a distance, while 1 successful a achromatic overgarment pinch nan hood up surveys nan business from straight successful beforehand of nan dashcam. 

The out-of-shot teen past races backmost looking jubilant, and they look to observe earlier each 4 vanish into nan night. 

Nick Baker, who shared nan dashcam footage connected X, appealed to nan alleged victim.

'If nan man being chased sees this and needs nan earthy footage for a constabulary report, please fto maine know,' he wrote connected X. 

'I deliberation it's important that everyone sees these things are going on,' Baker added while talking to Fox5.

'Such young group are nan perpetrators truthful we can't beryllium excessively loose connected crime. We person to person immoderate standards.'

Speaking astir nan perpetrators, he added: 'They’re young capable that they tin improve, study that what they’re doing is incorrect truthful I dream that being called retired for it will beryllium a wake-up telephone to them.'

DC constabulary said nan unfortunate did not want to record a report, truthful they did their ain write-up aft reviewing nan footage. 

It comes amid a activity of rising crime successful Washington complete nan past fewer years. Violent crime rocketed successful 2023 - pinch equipped robberies up 67 percent.

And while execution incidences decreased successful astir awesome US cities past year, nan nation's superior was ravaged by nan highest number successful 25 years.  

There were 274 homicides successful Washington past twelvemonth - a 50 percent summation since 2015, according to constabulary figures.