TikTok challenge of violently kicking doors unnerves residents, puts police on alert

Murrieta police are warning of a new TikTok challenge that is a dangerous variation of a decades-old prank — one that police across the country are scrambling to stop.

Some teens already have been arrested. Authorities in Florida, Washington state, Texas, New Jersey and Illinois, among other locations, have investigated the unsettling action.

The challenge invites participants to bang on or kick doors in an effort to startle the residents, and then post a video online. But unlike ding-dong ditch...