The Vancouver Police Department is investigating at least seven incidents — apparently linked to a popular social media challenge — of teens kicking in residents’ doors in east Vancouver.
The TikTok “Door Kick Challenge” encourages app users to upload video snippets of them kicking in doors of unsuspecting people, according to a police department news release.
Police said they responded to at least seven reports in less than an hour Wednesday, between 6 and 6:47 p.m., mostly in the Hearthwood neighborhood. In most of the cases, teenage boys kicked in the doors of unsuspecting residents, then fled.
A neighbor’s surveillance video captured an older, dark-colored four-door sedan with chrome spoke wheels at one of the locations, according to the news release.
