Wow, I remember when breaking a window or a bottle on the street is what us bad guys did.
I am not making excuses, but kids are powder kegs these days. With the exception of school activites/chores many kids have no productive outlets so they do stupid crap like this.
I use discipline at home and spending crap loads of money on outside activities to keep my kids occupied. Everyone is not able to do that. Even then it simply comes down to the kids decision making skills.
This stuff is not new. If we had 24hr new back in our youth similar stories would have been reported on the nighly news in our time.
Let's not pretend that some of us older guys never fought, got drunk, experimented with illegal substances, had premarital sex and were at times general *******s. Teens of every generation do dumb sh*t regardless of color!
All we adults can do is guide them in the proper way and hope that they don't make stupid life altering decisions.