Posted on 08/17/2017 5:37:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Tuesday bemoaned the fights that forced the United Center to close, canceling the championship game of a basketball league intended to keep teenagers off the streets in the summer.
The pandemonium some captured on cellphone video prevented neighborhood teams made up of players from two of Chicagos top high school basketball teams Orr Academy and Curie Metropolitan from squaring off in a title game.
As upsetting to Emanuel and Johnson as the ugly scene outside the United Center was the fact that the league itself was supposed to provide a constructive alternative to the lure of gang activity.
That the showcase game would dissolve into fights and pandemonium that forced the United Center to close on Monday night and cancel the championship game was a cause for sadness for both men.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Another white nationalist group I assume
Because “bemoaning” is a lot easier than trying to solve the problems, right?
Need to understand their mind set to understand why these actions happen. Sorry if offended by the language, it comes from the show The Wire.
Some problems are difficult or impossible to solve, but you can always virtue signal.
The Amish team was doing too much taunting during warm-ups
Tear down every Confederate monument in the country and black people will continue to kill each other at a Genocidal rate.
Just take it in the alley like Rahm advised.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emanuel-chicagos-escalating-crime-about-values/
Throw a shiny penny into the primate cage and watch what happens ...
“”The George Washington statue is to blame.””
No, it was really a difference of opinion on which monument/statue to blame... Without an education, they had to rely on what others were telling them and they really couldn’t make up their minds so they resorted to what they know best!
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