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Man, 7 teens charged in downtown muggings
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 11, 2012 | Erin Meyer

Posted on 06/11/2012 6:56:10 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

An 18-year-old man was charged along with seven teenagers who were charged with mob action following a series of muggings carried out Saturday night by groups of attackers, including one that left a visitor from Michigan hospitalized with a broken jaw.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: barbarians; chicago; feral; muggings; urban
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"Groups of attackers." Sounds similar to "a herd of bison," "a colony of ants" or "a pack of coyotes."
1 posted on 06/11/2012 6:56:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Or a gaggle of hoodies?


2 posted on 06/11/2012 6:58:20 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

More hijinks by Holder’s people.


3 posted on 06/11/2012 6:58:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Amish are at it again...

4 posted on 06/11/2012 7:01:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy ("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why Ms. Meter, did you leave the race of the victims out?


5 posted on 06/11/2012 7:02:04 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers.....)
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To: MHGinTN
No, just wife beater tees.

He was just looking for skittles ya, know.

6 posted on 06/11/2012 7:02:50 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: wac3rd

Well the web site does have a picture of the Obama’s son look alike


7 posted on 06/11/2012 7:05:14 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sudden Reparations Syndrome.


8 posted on 06/11/2012 7:07:06 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: MHGinTN

The youth gangs are coming up from the South Side, and invading formerly safe areas. This is very disturbing that this sort of thing keeps happening.

The gangs didn’t used to be so brazen about this. The gangs used to know their place and stay in their own neighborhoods.

I may get flamed for this. But, if the mayhem and chaos of the ghetto is going to spread to downtown and nice areas such as the Near North Side, areas where affluent residents live and tourists visit, is that good for the city of Chicago?

This article mentions upcoming events in the city such as Taste of Chicago. Do mob attacks such as this encourage, or discourage, people coming into the city?


9 posted on 06/11/2012 7:07:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Molon Labbie

Yep, the liberals might say, that these people are grappling with poverty, and are troubled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, thus they commit crime.

I wonder if the liberals view of these people will change, if liberals more and more become the victims of mob attacks.


10 posted on 06/11/2012 7:12:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeStatement

they have to start having the same punishments for violent juveniles as adults and put them away for a good ten years in a very hard labor work camp.


11 posted on 06/11/2012 7:15:35 AM PDT by MNDude
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If you’re not packin’ in Chicago, you’re crazy!

Screw their rules!

I have no obligation to be a victim.

And “NO!”, I wouldn’t stick around after defending myself, to answer a bunch of stupid questions.


12 posted on 06/11/2012 7:17:35 AM PDT by G Larry (Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Drugs like ‘bath salts’, cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. have the effect of lowering the persona to a primitive state. What we’re seeing is the junglizing of youth, black and white (here in E.TN it is the white youth being junglized via drug pyrolation of the brain). The primitive brain seeks stimulus. The culture feeds the freenzy mode via video games and over sexualized programming, while the illicit drug trafficking grows wealthy via the weeds they raise in the garden of a dying Republic.


13 posted on 06/11/2012 7:18:25 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Poverty my posterior. They do it because they like it, and they are being taught to do it from an early age.

Some liberals won’t see the light until they are beckoned to come into it.


14 posted on 06/11/2012 7:24:11 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Molon Labbie

Somebody wrote a song called “The Reparations Rap”. I heard a recording once of him singing it at some public event. The refrain was “I want my money, I want my money.........”

Yep, more and more mob attacks and flash mob reports will push the reparations movement forward.... (sarcasm)


15 posted on 06/11/2012 7:24:37 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Summer of Soetoro


16 posted on 06/11/2012 7:26:52 AM PDT by wolficatZ ("We are no longer accepting comments on this article")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well any fool that comes for an armed citizen’s gold make find the exchange rate will be in copper and brass.


17 posted on 06/11/2012 7:27:22 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Between political correctness run amok, utterly inept policing that’s leaving peaceful areas unprotected while trying to control the free-fire zones, and an unconscionable refusal by the city to hire more cops, downtown Chicago is coming unglued.

I refuse to go into the city any more than I absolutely have to.


18 posted on 06/11/2012 7:33:20 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: ConservativeStatement

An 18-year-old “man” and several “teens.” But if an intended victim shot one of them, suddenly they would be “our kids.”

I’m afraid I would cheer, and if my own children (an 18-year-old “man” and some “teens”) acted like that, I’d want them shot, too. People doing bad things should be stopped, period.


19 posted on 06/11/2012 7:41:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Genetic testing of unborn babies: measuring the morality of our culture. (Wesley Smith)
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and an unconscionable refusal by the city to hire more cops, downtown Chicago is coming unglued.

What are "more cops" going to accomplish, if the thugs are back on the street before the paperwork is done? The thugs need to be taken off the streets, as a first priority.

20 posted on 06/11/2012 7:45:52 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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