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2020-08-10 Fifth Column
100 arrested after night of looting in downtown Chicago; 13 cops injured
[WGNTV] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
’s top cop said about 100 people were arrested and 13 coppers were maimed after a night of looting in downtown Chicago.Widespread damage was reported throughout Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight Monday. Witnesses reported hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the looting started as a result of misinformation following a police-involved shooting in Englewood.

Brown said police were called to the 5700 block of Racine Avenue for a call with a man with a gun. Brown said that suspect was spotted and officers attempted to interview the man but he quickly fled. He said as the man was running away, he pointed a gun at officers and fired shots. Officers returned fire and struck him.

The man, 20, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and is expected to survive.

Brown said the 20-year-old had four previous arrested including burglary, child endangerment and domestic battery.
"He was an aspiring rap artist, turning his life around, possibly the priesthood. Dindu Nuffin"
No officers were maimed during the incident and a gun was recovered at the scene.

After the shooting, the superintendent said a crowd started to gather on the South Side following police action. He said tempers started to flare. Brown said CPD then became aware of social media posts encouraging looting downtown.

About 400 officers were dispatched downtown. The superintendent said caravans of people were seen heading downtown to loot.

Both Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.

"This was not an organized protest," Brown said. "This was an incident of pure criminality."

WGN’s Judy Wang was on the scene early Monday morning and reported seeing people filling trash bags with merchandise. She also saw crowd trashing the streets outside the stores and turning over garbage cans.

Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) told WGN he witnessed people driving up in vehicles, smashing windows of stores on Michigan Avenue and grab items and drive away.



Posted by Fred 2020-08-10 09:59|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.

Slowly, painfully, micron by micron she begins to come to the obvious conclusion.
Posted by gorb 2020-08-10 12:38||   2020-08-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Or maybe because it's politically inconvenient to side with the looter. I can't be sure.
Posted by gorb 2020-08-10 12:39||   2020-08-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember, Boeing's troubles started after they moved their HQ to Chiraq...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-10 12:55||   2020-08-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Having watched the video of the looting, I couldn't help but notice that it wasn't the Amish breaking into the stores.
Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-08-10 15:12||   2020-08-10 15:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.

For organized looting, that is what the Democratic Party is about. Everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party!
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-10 15:20||   2020-08-10 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 https://twitter.com/i/status/1292816972263165954

I assume the car was stolen as well as prissy Audi pilots would treat their ""4 Rings" in such a way.
Posted by Capsu78 2020-08-10 16:27||   2020-08-10 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The above twitter link has been clicked on 300K times since I first viewed it 90 minutes ago.
Posted by Capsu78 2020-08-10 16:28||   2020-08-10 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.

Because she didn't get her cut?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-10 16:38||   2020-08-10 16:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember, Boeing's troubles started after they moved their HQ to Chiraq...

Same for Caterpillar.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-08-10 20:26||   2020-08-10 20:26|| Front Page Top

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