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LIVE COVERAGE: Widespread damage reported in downtown Chicago after night of looting
WGN Chicago ^ | 8-10-2020

Posted on 08/10/2020 5:00:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo

LIVE COVERAGE: Widespread damage reported in downtown Chicago after night of looting Chicago News / 35 mins ago

CHICAGO — Widespread damage is reported in downtown Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight.

Witnesses report hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.

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

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

(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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To: KeyLargo

smashing windows of stores on Michigan Avenue and grab items and drive away. [snip]

Someone needs to learn how to write and stick to one tense...

smash windows grab and drive away, or smashing...grabbing and driving away...

jeez...are we dealing with 3rd graders here?

Don’t answer that...lol

Anyway...I still say it’s way past time for water cannons and rock salt...it’s not hard to stop this crap... Detroit never let it get started.

How many businesses are going to leave Chicago, Portland, Seattle, New York, and never come back? Cuomo is already begging the wealthy to come back from safer pastures...


21 posted on 08/10/2020 5:21:58 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I smile because you are family. I laugh because you can do nothing about it...)
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To: KeyLargo

Chicongo.


22 posted on 08/10/2020 5:22:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (China kills almost 700,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
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To: KeyLargo

#BLM. Black Looting Matters


23 posted on 08/10/2020 5:22:14 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: KeyLargo

New Dem-Rat talking point— “Its symbolic taking, not looting.” No joke.


24 posted on 08/10/2020 5:22:45 AM PDT by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: Travis McGee
Burn, Loot, Maim. Antifa's ugly big brother.

It s noteworthy that the greatest of the riots being mounted are in those cities and localities that have been under liberal Democrat regimes and hegemony for years if not decades.

25 posted on 08/10/2020 5:23:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: odawg

To make it happen we must DENY any money from the feds to rebuild these s holes or to fund welfare to reparations in those cities. Pull in the reins. That is how you stop a runaway horse. Recall the famous headline: Ford to NYC: drop dead. Not long after in came in Rudy and he cleaned it up as much as possible. It does not have to be a GOP guy either just someone who does the right thing for the city and country. Mayor Washington I believe in filthadphia faced with a building takeover blew it up! In LA the Symbian Liberation Army (cockroaches really) holed up and were exterminated by fires set off by tracers and flash bangs. Just have to have the stones to do it. Let them alone and it just gets worse. BTW I support peaceful protests and free speech but when it gets to rioting terrorism and sedition I believe in taking care of it with extreme prejudice.


26 posted on 08/10/2020 5:24:44 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: KeyLargo

More peaceful Biden rallies


27 posted on 08/10/2020 5:26:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
The rioteers or the mayors?

Yes.

28 posted on 08/10/2020 5:26:15 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: MRadtke

“Just watched a live stream of a black guy putting a bunch of looted stuff into an Escalade and driving off in it. “

Well, he’s entrepenurial and obviously willing to work long, odd hours to get ahead. And here you are at home watching. Are you jealous? It’s a bad look.

Extreme </s>


29 posted on 08/10/2020 5:27:47 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: KeyLargo

They have activists all over the country - not just the big cities.

Next on the list will be the medium-sized cities.

All it will take is their threats of violence and local officials will fold.

Which belies the myth of “violence never solves anything”


30 posted on 08/10/2020 5:28:40 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: AU72
"ANTIFA is declaring a 50 day siege of DC next month."

ANTIFA should be declared a terrorist organization so we could act accordingly..

31 posted on 08/10/2020 5:28:42 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: KeyLargo; All


32 posted on 08/10/2020 5:30:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: unread
ANTIFA should be declared a terrorist organization so we could act accordingly..

I thought it already was. The President didn't? WTH?

33 posted on 08/10/2020 5:30:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Travis McGee

CHICAGO (CBS)– In what appears to be a widespread, coordinated attack, dozens of stores, banks and other businesses were broken into across downtown Chicago overnight. The looting spread from the Loop, up to the Near North Side.

The unrest started around 11 p.m. Sunday and cause is still unknown at this time, but it does appear to be a coordinated effort. Video shows multiple cars parked on the streets as people ran out and broke into stores. CBS 2’s Ryan Baker reports that former Bears player Patrick Mannelly witnessed the looting from his high-rise condo and saw cars driving up to a U-Haul truck and putting stolen goods into the trailer.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/10/live-updates-looting-unrest-overnight-across-downtown-chicago-the-loop-shut-down/


34 posted on 08/10/2020 5:31:21 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Paleo Pete
"jeez...are we dealing with 3rd graders here?"

Wow..! your so smart.. So what are you, a teacher??

35 posted on 08/10/2020 5:31:50 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: I want the USA back

All bridges are up to block anyone from coming into downtown Chicago.

A businesses are shut down now.


36 posted on 08/10/2020 5:33:34 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: SharpRightTurn

Maxine Water TAKE HEED. Here we have one of your RACIAL black people that you insist have the job as VP. Imagine this gal being in the Presidency, if you can’t run a city, for sure you can’t run a nation. We need to get away from IDENTITY politics and elect Qualified people IRREGARDLESS of their tone of skin pigment.


37 posted on 08/10/2020 5:34:36 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: KeyLargo

Not a peep about this on the CNN site, and only minimal small headline coverage on the others outside Fox.

If a tree falls in the woods...?


38 posted on 08/10/2020 5:34:51 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: The Antiyuppie
In Detroit in 1967 newscrews filmed integrated teams of looters assisting each other in loading up heavy furniture items into tow trailers and pickup trucks. Everyone very polite, well behaved and middle class. No pushing or shoving, everyone just waiting their turn to pull up at the customer pickup ramp. This happened quite a bit in the Motor City bugaloo.
39 posted on 08/10/2020 5:35:29 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: unread

Someone also needs to learn how to use “you’re” and “your”.

I’m not a teacher. Just someone who appreciates the proper use of the words of our language.


40 posted on 08/10/2020 5:39:25 AM PDT by Helen
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