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Chicago Students Riot and Loot at Strip Mall During Gun Walkout
Blue Lives Matter ^ | March 15, 2018 | Anonymous

Posted on 03/16/2018 5:11:47 AM PDT by PBRCat

A crowd of Chicago students demanded gun control by rioting and looting on Wednesday.

A crowd of students swarmed a south side strip mall during Wednesday’s National Walkout Day demonstration, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

“They pretty much trashed this whole area,” GameStop manager Robert Owens told Blue Lives Matter on Thursday.

The nationwide demonstration, touted as a demand for gun control legislation, was slated to last for exactly 17 minutes, in remembrance of each of the 17 people murdered during the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

Not all of the protests were peaceful.

On Chicago’s South Side, Simeon Career Academy students descended on businesses situated in a strip mall behind the school, and began harassing customers and employees.

“Things started out cool,” a Potbelly Sandwich Shop manager, who did not want to be further identified, told Blue Lives Matter. “But then some of the guys started yelling, threatened the employees, and said they were going to come back [into the kitchen area] and make their own food.”

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TOPICS: Local News; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bluelivesmatter; chicago; crime; gamestop; guns; protest; robertowens
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To: IronJack
Raise your hand if you believe this ever had anything to do with gun control.

As I wrote elsewhere, this has everything to do with Marx and Engels:

But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

21 posted on 03/16/2018 5:32:11 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Don Corleone

The Chicago Police Department responded when the store owners contacted the authorities.


22 posted on 03/16/2018 5:35:18 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Feral hominid bipeds demonstrating one of the reasons for keeping sacred “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.


23 posted on 03/16/2018 5:35:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PBRCat

Good, teach businesses what to expect if they invest in that city.


24 posted on 03/16/2018 5:36:08 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Florida school safety bill=gun grabbing)
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To: PBRCat
So, they protest guns by demonstrating exactly why the guns are needed.

To protect the individual against the mob.

That is so brilliant it could only have come from Chicago.

25 posted on 03/16/2018 5:40:32 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: nikos1121

My dad grew up in Chicago. Years ago, he told me I would never survive a stroll through his old neighborhood. I can’t imagine how bad it is now.


26 posted on 03/16/2018 5:40:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Dr.Deth
Thank you for using the word ironic correctly.
27 posted on 03/16/2018 5:41:14 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: Gen.Blather

Or arresting the criminals who did it. Walmart should close that store since the residents don’t seem to appreciate it.


28 posted on 03/16/2018 5:42:53 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: super7man

I let my membership lapse when the NRA endorsed Mitch McConnell.

I’m seriously considering re-joining.


29 posted on 03/16/2018 5:44:58 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: Doogle

Just chimpin’


30 posted on 03/16/2018 5:45:56 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: PBRCat

The crowd made the point that store owners and clerks should possess and use guns to defend the stores.


31 posted on 03/16/2018 5:47:56 AM PDT by arthurus (fsasr)
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To: PBRCat

It would be interesting if a CC store owner shot one (or more) of them.


32 posted on 03/16/2018 5:48:02 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: robroys woman

Ferals being ferals.


33 posted on 03/16/2018 5:50:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: super7man

Yeah, I did a five year renewal a couple of weeks ago...I had let mine lapse as well.


34 posted on 03/16/2018 5:55:39 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: sickoflibs

I wrote this on another thread this morning:

This is the higher cost of doing business in these areas.

Many retailers (especially chains) decide to cut their losses and close the stores, retaurants, or supermarkets due to the higher cost of business in security, shoplifting, vandalism and violence.

It creates a “food desert” where there is no place to purchase food locally.

People all over the country will see some “leaders” in the local black community (though not all) who, backed by politicians at the state and federal level, will stand in front of a podium and talk about the entrenched racism and prejudice present in this country that is responsible for hard-working black citizens who cannot buy a quart of milk, without driving to another part of the city, which adds to their cost of living and is a form of oppression.

They will never show the video like this to people at those rallies, but that is the higher cost of doing business in those areas.

To many in that community (though not all) it is simple racism that causes these things, not vandalism, crime, violence, higher physical security costs, and theft.


35 posted on 03/16/2018 5:56:53 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: PBRCat

“Simeon Career Academy”

Sounds like they chimped out.


36 posted on 03/16/2018 5:58:57 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: robroys woman

I have no doubt it would result in a prosecution of the CC store owner unless the person himself was attacked, or someone else physically attacked.

That would be a pity.


37 posted on 03/16/2018 5:59:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: longfellow
They should have been shot.

Won't happen, they were not in a gun free zone.

38 posted on 03/16/2018 6:15:06 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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To: PBRCat

Which explains why they don’t want citizens to own guns.


39 posted on 03/16/2018 6:45:35 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: PBRCat

Its the bolshevik way


40 posted on 03/16/2018 6:46:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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