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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The problem is that you can't you can't take the "african" out of the "african americans".
It’s the classic dialectic: empowerment (in fact, creation) of a “victim” class as an antithetical lever to drive change. Of course, the change sought here is the disarmament of the populace.
This is the inevitable result of enacting and pursuing the liberal (a.k.a the demo_rats) agenda.
JoMa
I live in Maryland so Baltimore city is my favorite showcase of how liberals voting can turn a city into a insane hellhole
Freddie Gray Riots Mayor on radio announced that they would be giving rioters the room to riot and ordered police to stand aside.
Score of public schools flooded due to frozen pipes because furnaces failed (no $$$ for plumbers) .
Maryland taxpayers pay for the majority of Baltimore city public school costs where $$$ spend per student is the highest in the nation yet the scores and graduation is the lowest.
City spent $$$ busing the kids during school-day to DC antigun protest the other day.
City is spending 100s of K$ defending illegals in immigration court.
City went to governor and assembly last year demanding even more $$$ for public schools, just not raising enough taxes.
When they publicly announced they were pulling back police to “give the protesters space”, I hit the roof.
Just hit the roof. I couldn’t believe it. If I were a shop owner or someone with property damage due to their “giving space”, I would have taken legal action to obtain compensation from taxes I had paid to protect me from such things.
Oh, poor libs reading of this...
Schadenfreude (again)!
Yup, at least half of these “youths” are the LAST to be lecturing about “violence” i.e., gunplay.
They are thugs themselves. Doesn’t matter what weaponry they have at hand.
All rioters should be shot.
If the police/judges would be serious about keeping order, all this garbage would stop in the blink of an eye.
If you hit the roof over that you should hit Earth's orbit over what she really said.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake:
“"I've made it very clear that I work with the police and instructed them to do everything they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech, It's a very delicate balancing act because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well, and we work very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.”
(APR 28 2015) Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Under Fire For ‘Space’ to Destroy Comment
Who would start a business in a city with leaders like her?
I remember that, yes. I was simply using shorthand for the whole thing. It still makes me angry. And it should.
Actually Baltimore is another example of 1968 riots turning everything upside down. There were Dems before, but not the pure-commie apologist enablers there are now.
It was a GREAT city. Before 1968. My mother’s beloved city has been ruined.
Then a future progressive administration would tag Tea Party rallies as riots and shoot us.
So. sorry to hear that, but you are right.Chitown needs a Guliani. BEst luck to you and yours.
Chicago is the poorer for losing you, but you have to do what is best for you and your family
That is great idea.
Where is belly girl when we need her? I think she posed with a gun while wearing a bikini?
My dad grew up at 22nd and Pulaski. A while back he said let’s take a drive through the old neighborhood. And what do we see? Bunch of guys sitting on porches with their Colt 45 and shower caps on. Homes and stores with iron bars on their windows . The neighborhood changed quite a bit. Even my dad told us to roll up the windows.
You are so right...but this will all be atributed to white privilege, discrimination, blah blah blah.
My father’s retirement home had a sign saying no guns allowed. It’s the most idiotic thing I can possibly think of. Talk about making yourself vulnerable..
Thanks! She was great!
“Student ironically demonstrate the reason for the 2nd Amendment.”
Also note the irony of students from a “Career Academy” trashing retail businesses!
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