Posted on 09/01/2021 4:46:18 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Two men were beaten and robbed in Chicago’s River North neighborhood early Saturday.
The victims were attacked on State Street near Kinzie at about 1:30 a.m.
Video shared on social media shows the men knocked to the ground on State Street. They are robbed as they lay on the ground.
Chicago police said that the 40-year-old victim was taken to Northwestern Hospital. The other victim refused medical attention.
Video from the incident below:
The incident has sparked new controversy, as video obtained from the scene by CWB Chicago does not show any police responding to the scene. Supt. David Brown later defended the department’s response time to the busy intersection.
“Let me address one of the aspects of the incident, (which was) how long it took to get there. There were officers on walking beats that were nearby. From our preliminary review, it took about six minutes to get there,” he said. “Not everybody was cooperative, but you can see it was a very chaotic scene.”
No arrests have been made in the case, and Area Three detectives are investigating.
Another hate crime that was ignored by the media as America’s once beautiful cities are turning into a third world s**t holes!
OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author’s opinion.
Black on white crimes are acts of love.
I thought everybody knew that!
Disparity of numbers can be a lawful reason for use of deadly force.
Watch the video!
This is so sick. These people are destroying MLK’s dream more and more as the years go on.
A sound situational awareness would tell you not to be in the middle of a band of roving ferals. No good could come from being where these two were.
“You gotta be tough to be dumb” is the phrase that comes to my mind.
“You gotta be tough to be dumb” is the phrase that comes to my mind.
Bingo!
Nothing good happens after midnight. It was 1:30.
In an area where you need situational awareness, don’t be intoxicated with alcohol or drugs.
The guy in the green shirt was acting drunk. He looked liked he may even have tried to start something before he showed up in this video, and he seemed to want to fight everyone. Gotta be tough to be dumb seems to fit him perfectly.
I should have added, if green shirt guy was drunk or intoxicated, he would have had no business carrying a firearm.
And no one should ever think carrying a firearm makes it OK to go places where a person would be unsafe without one. If you aren’t a cop or have some other real good reason, don’t go to those places.
If green shirt guy had had a firearm, one of those times when he got up trying to fight everybody, he probably would have started shooting people. And then he’d be rightfully charged with murder. How about those Chicago juries! As I heard a judge say one time, they would put him so far under the jailhouse, they would have to pipe the sunshine to him.
The neighborhood where the attack happened is mostly a business area. The people who do live there, other than Jussie Smollett, tend to be wealthy and white. The attack happened about a block from the Trump Tower, to provide some perspective on the cost of housing in the area.
Unfortunately groups of young people from other parts of the city go to the River North neighborhood and fighting and crime come with them.
One more thing. It isn't the color of the people in the neighborhood that matters. It is the culture and usually the poverty level of the people in the neighborhood.
There are plenty of majority black neighborhoods that are perfectly safe, and plenty of neighborhoods with white, Hispanic or Asian residents that are far from safe.
Just a typical night in Chicago: An impromptu tribe of savages behaving like ... well ... a tribe of savages.
South Africa, USA.
“plenty of neighborhoods with white... residents that are far from safe.”
Where is that? I know my hometown pretty well. There is nowhere that is predominately white that I would even hesitate to walk through. I could walk through the trashiest trailer park in town without fear of getting attacked. I would venture to say that nowhere I have ever lived had a white area that was even considered remotely dangerous.
Derbyshire’s Rules.
Not describing the teens is description is description enough.
Charlestown MA before it got gentrified.
South Boston before it got gentrified.
Kensington and Fishtown in Philadelphia.
Before they got gentrified? What?? So, they had bad white people living there but now there are good white people living there? Kensington and Fishtown, PA are white areas where you’re afraid to walk down the street? Really? I’m not going to argue with you about it because I don’t know those areas but I find it very hard to believe.
>>Disparity of numbers can be a lawful reason for use of deadly force.<<
In a self defense shooting, the defender has the burden of proof in showing his actions are justified.
When the cops finally show up, with one “unarmed” guy on the ground, the rest scattered, and a hostile crowd ready to tell the cops you shot him over nothing, how’s that going to work out?
Better to avoid black areas whenever possible.
I hope you understand that neighborhoods can evolve over time. Some neighborhoods that used to have relatively poor residents with a lot of criminal activity, and plenty of risk of robbery, gangs, gunfire on the street, etc. don't have that anymore. Charlestown MA is one example of that.
Kensington has a violent crime rate about 30% higher than the rest of Philadelphia. It is actually one of the most dangerous parts of the city. And a lot of poor white people live there.
You can read about the neighborhood here
“I’m not afraid to walk down the street anywhere,”
Yeah, I knew after I posted you would jump on that. It was a figure of speech. Whatever.
You have avoided the answer to my original question regarding your comment; in what predominately white neighbor would, let’s see how to put this, you feel unsafe? You’ve made two or three responses and have not answered my very simple question. Yes, of course neighborhoods can change. They can change from a safe white neighborhood to an unsafe black neighborhood. They do not change to an unsafe white neighborhood. Let’s look a this:
“Kensington has a violent crime rate about 30% higher than the rest of Philadelphia. It is actually one of the most dangerous parts of the city. And a lot of poor white people live there.”
What is the demographic breakdown? I did not see that in your link but it did say this:
“Primary language at home is not English* [C] 47.9%”
Half the people who live there don’t speak English at home but this is a white area? What are they, Russians, Ukrainians...what?
I’m sorry, I don’t think you can back up your comment that ““plenty of neighborhoods with white... residents that are far from safe.”
One's I have lived in where stabbings, shootings, robbery, and violence were common among the other white people who lived there.
You may not realize it, but large portions of Boston used to be nearly 100% white and quite dangerous and violent. The same is true for other large cities. It is still true today in some neighborhoods even though they are being flooded with recent immigrants.
Do you really think crime and violence are only committed by people who aren't white?
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