Langley, B.C., RCMP said they were forced to stun a 16-year-old as they broke up a street race on Friday night.
Police said officers found 200 teens and young adults street racing and stunting just after 11 p.m. on Gloucester Way and used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
They put a teen in the back of a squad car and police said the crowd set the suspect free in the chaos but a police dog later tracked the teen down.
The teen is facing a number of charges, including assaulting a police officer.
The mayor of Langley Township told Global News that council will be asking staff to accelerate its report to put a stop to street racing.
“We have a number of trucking companies and other operations in Gloucester that operate overnight,” Eric Woodward said.
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“And we have everyday workers trying to try to do their job. And we have this group of people that consistently break the law.”
Leonard Buhler, co-founder of Lenmark Industries, is one of the businesses operating in the area.
He told Global News that the street racing started about a year and a half ago.
“We called the police lots of times for them to come in and stop it, because it just looks so dangerous,” he said.
“And then, of course, as time went on, you know, first of all, 20 or 30 cars turn up. Then 100 cars. And then, of course, you know, all the high-performance cars come here, and they really go at it.”
Buhler said police have chased away the racers before but they would come back about 20 or 30 minutes later.
“The one kind of side effect that was good is the petty thieves who were robbing us here stopped coming here because of the racing and these guys generally don’t bother our business,” he added.
“And so I just quit caring. I mean, if the police weren’t going to do anything about it, we just let it go.”
Buhler said he is worried that one day someone is going to be killed.
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