Louise Lucas’ Granddaughter Posted One Disgusting Statement Before a Norfolk Neighborhood Erupted in Flames

A flamethrower lit a residential Norfolk street on fire – 30 feet from a playground.

Police took 20 minutes to respond, the crowd scattered, and nobody was arrested.

What happened in the 72 hours before that fire started tells you everything about who is running Virginia.

Norfolk Street Takeover on Redgate Avenue Leaves Scorch Marks Near Playground

The call to police came in at 8:22 PM.

Dozens of people had taken over the intersection of Redgate Avenue and Greenway Court.

Cars and motorcycles were doing donuts, spewing tire smoke across the pavement.

Fireworks were going off in the middle of the street.

Then came the flamethrower.

A man in a mask raised it above his head and fired a column of flame into the air while the crowd cheered.

Someone else poured gasoline from a can directly onto the pavement and watched it ignite.

A ring of fire burned in the street – feet from a playground.

Neighbor Lesly Acheampong told WAVY: "That's not usually something that happens in this neighborhood."

Another resident, who asked only to be called Aleida, opened her front door and said she immediately smelled burned rubber.

"I see them across the park just doing donuts, doing burnouts, shooting fireworks, then the flamethrower," she said.

When police finally arrived, the crowd scattered.

No arrests were made.

The next morning, tire marks and scorch marks were still visible on the pavement.

Norfolk Police Response Delayed 20 Minutes While Crowd Scattered With No Arrests

Here is what the police response actually looked like.

Neighbors called at 8:22 PM.

An officer was dispatched within five minutes – then diverted to a separate call involving a person with a weapon.

A second officer was sent at 8:38 PM and arrived at 8:40 PM.

By then, the mob was gone.

Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot issued a statement Monday pledging to "track down every person who participated" and hold them accountable.

Norfolk Police added they are investigating and could bring charges.

They also noted no injuries were reported – as if that were the standard for success.

The tire marks and scorch marks said otherwise.

Ramin Fatehi and the Soros Money Behind Norfolk's No-Bail Policy

Even if police had made arrests Sunday night, Norfolk residents would have to reckon with what happens next.

Commonwealth Attorney Ramin Fatehi is a self-described "progressive prosecutor" whose campaign collected $667,236 from two George Soros-financed PACs – the Justice and Public Safety PAC and the Democracy PAC.

He put that money to work immediately.

His first act in office was to end cash bail demands across the board – his office simply stopped asking for it, in any case, for any defendant.

His stated philosophy declares that poverty is not a crime, that the school-to-prison pipeline must be shut down, and that the justice system must "honor the principle that Black Lives Matter."

The American Spectator called him "the Chesa Boudin of Chesapeake Bay" – a reference to San Francisco's soft-on-crime DA who was recalled by voters in 2022 after the city's crime rate exploded.

Norfolk hit its highest number of murders in thirty years in 2022 under Fatehi's watch.

A string of courtroom failures in high-profile murder cases followed, along with an exodus of career prosecutors from his office.

Fatehi told critics the data doesn't support the connection.

The families of those victims might disagree.

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Louise Lucas Family Member Posts "Chaos Is Also a Strategy" After Virginia Gerrymander Ruling

The Virginia Insider flagged something that went largely unreported: this incident came days after a member of State Sen. Louise Lucas's family – her granddaughter – posted "chaos is also a strategy" on social media following the Virginia Supreme Court's decision striking down Democrats' gerrymander.

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Lucas herself just had her Portsmouth office raided by the FBI on May 6 as part of a federal corruption investigation tied to her cannabis dispensary operation.

She spent months championing a Democrat gerrymander under the slogan "Ten F—ing One" – Democrats' bid to take 10 of Virginia's 11 congressional seats.

The Virginia Supreme Court threw it out.

Democrats burned $64 million on the effort.

And days after that collapse, a family member publicly declared that chaos is a deliberate strategy.

That post did not come from a stranger to Virginia politics.

It came from inside the family of one of the state's most powerful Democrats.

This Is What No Accountability Looks Like

The people who set Redgate Avenue on fire are not hard to understand.

They did it because they believed nothing would happen to them.

They were probably right.

A police force stretched thin enough that the first responding unit got pulled to another weapons call before it ever arrived. A prosecutor whose first act in office was to eliminate cash bail for every defendant. A political family that – in the immediate aftermath of a legal defeat – publicly called street chaos a tool.

West Ghent residents paid their taxes and called the police at 8:22 PM.

They got scorch marks on the pavement and a prosecutor who already told them where his priorities are.

Sources:

• Ashley Knight, "VIDEO: Flamethrower seen amid 'street takeover' in Norfolk," WAVY News 10, May 18, 2026.
• Anthony Sabella, "Wild video captures apparent flamethrower and fireworks set off in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood," WTKR News 3, May 18, 2026.
• Deroy Murdock, "'Prosecutor' Ramin Fatehi: The Chesa Boudin of Chesapeake Bay," The American Spectator, November 3, 2025.
• Christine Sellers, "Teen Takeover Chaos Spreads After Masked Individual Pulls Out Apparent Flamethrower," The Daily Caller, May 19, 2026.
• Staff, "Social media erupts after Democrats 'burned $64M' on failed Virginia gerrymander," Fox News, May 9, 2026.
• Kerry Dougherty, "Norfolk Baby Killer Gets No More Than 19 Years," kerrydougherty.com, August 8, 2025.