I can't blame the looters too much as the police will be labeled the bad guys if they respond back. Normally the violence in the city is restricted to a relatively few neighborhoods, but this is literally in Downtown. I imagine if the looting continues that this could trigger a mass exodus from the city.
I am truly sorry that so many terrible things seem to be happening during the Trump presidency.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is doing a great job. Biden VP pick?
I expect poor leadership from Chicago mayors however Lightfoot has hit new lows. She's is spending a considerable amount of energy chastising people for gathering at the lakefront and relatively little calling out those who are destroying property.
drunk runner. wrote:
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is doing a great job. Biden VP pick?
She's doing a great job as long as she doesn't violate her own social distancing mandates. ?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/im-out-in-the-public-eye-mayor-lightfoot-gets-haircut-amid-social-distancing-orders/amp/Can't wait for all the people who don't live here to make productive and insightful comments!
Great time to do the liberal experiment and send in the social workers. Safe zones should be erected for the social workers to be able to converse with the Peaceful Protesters. Absolutely Trumps fault as noted above.
Right if don't live in Chicago, you can't have an opinion on it. If only the elitists liberals of northern states would keep their mouths shut about southern states and cities in which they don't reside.
JahWobble wrote:
I expect poor leadership from Chicago mayors however Lightfoot has hit new lows. She's is spending a considerable amount of energy chastising people for gathering at the lakefront and relatively little calling out those who are destroying property.
But you have to at least give her credit for her meme game. She also had the cowboy help with the census.
Chicago is my favorite city in the nation. This is a national tragedy.
I don't care what political party you belong to, this is just sickening.
Ever since Marshall Fields left, the great city of Chicago has been in decline. Businesses and residents have been leaving steadily in the past decade. Beautiful city but horrible taxes and leadership, ever-growing crime.
Lived there for 15 years and moved to Dallas this summer. There is a reason *everyone* is moving to Dallas from CA and NY and Chicago. People are sick of being taxed up the wazoo to live somewhere full of homeless people, crime, and vandalism
it all started with Marshall Fields wrote:
Ever since Marshall Fields left, the great city of Chicago has been in decline. Businesses and residents have been leaving steadily in the past decade. Beautiful city but horrible taxes and leadership, ever-growing crime.
Lived there for 15 years and moved to Dallas this summer. There is a reason *everyone* is moving to Dallas from CA and NY and Chicago. People are sick of being taxed up the wazoo to live somewhere full of homeless people, crime, and vandalism
Don’t go to Austin then. It’s becoming another liberal shiiit hole.
Lightfoot did a press conference and unequivocally called the looters felons. This all started when an officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect. The suspect was hit and taken to the hospital. A crowd gathered around the scene and people started spreading false rumors that the police shot a child. That got around to social media and people started getting word on social media to go downtown. No protest ever started. Instead, people were emboldened by the large groups gathering and started smashing windows and looting stores.
This incident just goes to show how much we are on the edge in this country. If you think that people living in neighborhoods like the south side of Chicago are going to just submit to police violence and accept the never ending poverty and desperation that surrounds them, you better watch out. This kind of violence and looting is criminal and without any political organizing. And that is why everyone should be scared. Political movements like BLM get co-opted and rendered ineffective. But nothing can stop the kind of violence like what happened last nigh in Chicago. It is an all out revolt against the existing order and is only concerned with seeing the destruction of that order.
Yeah, about that... wrote:
I am truly sorry that so many terrible things seem to be happening during the Trump presidency.
My daughter lives in Chicago and I worry about her. So I too am truly sorry that so many bad things are happening during the Trump Administration.
That you’re a Chicago guy is the least surprising news.
Precious Roy wrote:
Lightfoot did a press conference and unequivocally called the looters felons. This all started when an officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect. The suspect was hit and taken to the hospital. A crowd gathered around the scene and people started spreading false rumors that the police shot a child. That got around to social media and people started getting word on social media to go downtown. No protest ever started. Instead, people were emboldened by the large groups gathering and started smashing windows and looting stores.
This incident just goes to show how much we are on the edge in this country. If you think that people living in neighborhoods like the south side of Chicago are going to just submit to police violence and accept the never ending poverty and desperation that surrounds them, you better watch out. This kind of violence and looting is criminal and without any political organizing. And that is why everyone should be scared. Political movements like BLM get co-opted and rendered ineffective. But nothing can stop the kind of violence like what happened last nigh in Chicago. It is an all out revolt against the existing order and is only concerned with seeing the destruction of that order.
Are there unjustified instances of police violence? Yes, but this was not one of them. The guy shot at police first, the police were called to investigate by individuals in the neighborhood and he has committed previous criminal activity.
This is why you can't live in cities. All about da BURBS. No-one mess with da BURBS and that high high per capita income.
Wasn't she on the bandwagon to defund the police? I saw her press conference today where she looked in the camera and directed a message to the thugs; "we're coming after you...you will be held accountable." Too funny - she wanted so bad to defund the police...the same police that she wants them to apprehend the thugs. Lol.
BLM ignores that of the 449 murder in Chicago this year, 316 or 70% have been black on black murders (55 have been classified as "unknown" including the black rapper FBG Duck, so the number is even higher).
But when police respond to a 911 call about someone with a gun, and confront the person with the gun, who then fires on the cops and is shot with return fire (he is now in hospital on taxpayer's dime), then it's time for another BLM looting session to "protest" racist white cops. You'd almost think this BLM movement was looking for quick, easy and exciting opportunities to maximize personal material gain, rather than interested in justice.
The woke liberals on LRC (Armstrong, etc.) will enjoy pretending to outraged over a police shooting of a black man and pleased with more opportunities to throw the omnibus "systemic racism" term around some more. Reasonable people are just worried and sick about when this terrorism and extortion will ever end, given the delusional frame of mind so many Americans and politicians seem to be in.