YouTube streamer faces riot charge after Union Square Park erupts in chaos

A popular social media streamer faced a charge of inciting a riot Friday when an event at Manhattan’s Union Square Park where he planned to give away video game consoles descended into mayhem, drawing a crowd estimated at several thousand young people.

In addition to the riot count, the livestreamer, Kai Carlo Cenat III, was expected to be charged with unlawful assembly and, potentially, other crimes, Jeffrey Maddrey, the New York Police Department’s chief of department, said at a news conference late Friday.