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Complete lawlessness’: Critics slam mayor as Loop mob attack and shootings shock Chicago
CWB Chicago ^ | November 22, 2025 | Tim Hecke

Posted on 11/23/2025 5:32:39 AM PST by PBRCat

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The people had assembled downtown to watch the lighting of the 2025 Chicago Christmas Tree.

Video at link.

1 posted on 11/23/2025 5:32:39 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

It’s an isolated incident


2 posted on 11/23/2025 5:39:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year.


3 posted on 11/23/2025 5:42:28 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I had a downtown high-rise one bedroom for some time in the early 2000s. Indoor parking made it good. I was a big guy so going out before 8 or 9 on foot was possible back then. Michigan Avenue to the Water Tower district good walking but in the Obama era it turned to a hunting ground.


4 posted on 11/23/2025 5:45:06 AM PST by KC Burke
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“How many do you normally lose at a tree lighting ceremony? 30? 40?”


5 posted on 11/23/2025 5:46:12 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: V_TWIN

You can take ‘em out of the ghetto but....


6 posted on 11/23/2025 5:46:19 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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Something similar happened at a tree lighting in N.C. the other day.......TikTok challenge perhaps?


7 posted on 11/23/2025 5:49:31 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: PBRCat

Why would a White or Asian person go downtown after dark?


8 posted on 11/23/2025 6:03:18 AM PST by alternatives?
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How about local high schools in Chicago offer something positive for the youth. Team up with a trade union or something. Offer junior and senior year electrical basics. There are advanced classes to earn college credits, why not trade classes that provide paid apprenticeship programs. Same with mechanical things. An autobody instruction. Small engine repair. Idk. Give the youth something to better their lives.


9 posted on 11/23/2025 6:08:37 AM PST by Kudsman (Remember the Alamo? Good. Now recall the Plaskett surrender. )
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Mostly peaceful, besides the gun lobby.

(You've gotta think like a democrat)

10 posted on 11/23/2025 6:16:57 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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But But But: “On Tuesday, the mayor said there continues to be a downward trend in shooting deaths, shooting victims, and violent crime.


11 posted on 11/23/2025 6:18:27 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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“How about local high schools in Chicago offer something positive for the youth. Team up with a trade union or something. Offer junior and senior year electrical basics.”

They tried that on the south side a few years ago.

It was mired in scandal almost from the day it opened. CPS and the CTU are criminal organizations. They’re beyond fixing.

L


12 posted on 11/23/2025 6:20:27 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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But it was a mostly peaceful typical weekend in Chicago.


13 posted on 11/23/2025 6:24:20 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Media approved


14 posted on 11/23/2025 6:25:21 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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Did they have actual IBEW people running the program or useless NEA ideologues? Give the unions a stake in developing new memebers and cut out the “teachers” that just want to touch and pervert the youth. Something has to be done. The status quo is a dead end.


15 posted on 11/23/2025 6:26:55 AM PST by Kudsman (Remember the Alamo? Good. Now recall the Plaskett surrender. )
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The problem with the black community is the black community.

The things you suggested are great ideas, however it’s a well known fact that blacks attempting to better themselves are often ostracized by other blacks in their community for “acting White” or back in the old days it was called “being uppity”.

Any black people that wonder why many White folks choose not to be around them any more than necessary should look at these types of incidents as an explanation as to why.


16 posted on 11/23/2025 6:34:10 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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I am a bigot based on behavior. I don’t care about skin color, what hangs or doesn’t hang between legs or surface things. I will continue to be a bigot on behavior.

Within the black community I can find many good people. Within the white community I can find the worst of the worst.

Defining problems and proper use of our speech is important. It is too easy to fall into the liberals trap of defining by race.


17 posted on 11/23/2025 6:40:23 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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We have to break that thinking of low expectations somehow. Surely there are some sane leaders out there. They need to start being louder and more organized than the grievance grifters or their communities will just keep slaughtering each other. Whitey can't do it for them. We cqn help, but impetus has to come from within.

Heck same thing with Appalachia and the rust belt. A reason to live is needed. Badly.

18 posted on 11/23/2025 6:43:42 AM PST by Kudsman (Remember the Alamo? Good. Now recall the Plaskett surrender. )
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To: PeterPrinciple

Exactly. It cuts across all races and the sexes. It a people problem. Not particular to any race.


19 posted on 11/23/2025 6:45:40 AM PST by Kudsman (Remember the Alamo? Good. Now recall the Plaskett surrender. )
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“Within the black community I can find many good people. Within the white community I can find the worst of the worst.”
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Sure but don’t forget the makeup of the population.

Blacks supposedly only make up 13 to 15% of the population and yet they seem to create the majority of crime in this country.....At year-end 2022, the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. state and federal prison population was approximately 32% Black, 31% White.

Their culture is broken and it’ll have to be repaired from within that culture......and democrats can throw all the money they want at it.....it’s not going to fix it.


20 posted on 11/23/2025 7:02:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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