Residents in a black Chicago neighborhood claim cops left a 'bait truck' full of Nike sneakers[tr]

Daily Mail ^ | 8/8/2018 | Hannah Moore

[simpson96]

Chicago Police are under fire after allegedly parking a 'bait truck' full of designer shoes in an impoverished neighborhood, two days in a row.

Activists allege on at least one occasion last week, police parked the partially open truck near a group of children playing basketball in Englewood, southwest Chicago, in an attempt to lure them into committing a crime.

'Instead of stopping crime, they're trying to create it,' Martin Johnson, who spent an hour filming the second truck on Friday, said.

He was joined by another local woman, Helen, who said police were forcing an already at-risk group of people behind bars.

'When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you're hungry, your conditions and your situations make choices for you,' she said, referencing the policeman who just a day before had claimed those arrested had made a 'conscious choice'.

'Whoever acted and went to jail yesterday, they didn't make a conscious decision, their conditions made a decision for them.' On both occasions, police are seen surrounded by furious residents, with marked and undercover police cars parked nearby.

While locals argue to police the trucks are a 'dirty' tactic, and officers are 'setting up' the community, law enforcement was seen arguing back anyone who engaged with the trucks was making a conscious decision.

Fellow activist Charles McKenzie, who works with anti-violence and crime prevention group God's Gorillas, told Vox he believed tactics like bait trucks would damage trust between the community and its local police force.

McKenzie said the alleged bait truck projected the idea police were focused on hurting members of the community, not protecting them.

'How do we supposed to trust [police] if they setting us up like this?' Mckenzie said. 'How can we trust them?'

[Seruzawa]

Regardless of the lack of ethics in the community the cops have better things to do than promote crime.

[Bell Bouy II]

Gee thanks

[tomkat]

Fellow activist Charles McKenzie, who works with anti-violence and crime prevention group God's Gorillas

LOL

[Pravious]

‘How do we supposed to trust [police] if they setting us up like this?’ Mckenzie said. ‘How can we trust them?’

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Did the concept of not stealing ever enter into their heads?

[Cowboy Bob]

Good think it wasn’t a truck full of watermelons.

[Cowboy Bob]

think = thing

[Celerity]

I got challenged in a parking lot at night when I was hanging out. Other kids were challenged at lights.

[bluejean]

“If you’re starving, you don’t steal Nike shoes. You can’t eat Nike shoes.”

Yeh bu’ in non-raciss hoods, havin a pair o’ dem shoes be’s jus like a full belly. Idda same thang!

[lastchance]

‘When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you’re hungry, your conditions and your situations make choices for you,’ she said, referencing the policeman who just a day before had claimed those arrested had made a ‘conscious choice’.

So just how does one prepare sneakers for the cook pot?

[freedumb2003]

>>’When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you’re hungry, your conditions and your situations make choices for you,’ <<

So leftists admit they are less than human and unable to control their base instincts. Talk about racism.

Also, I don’t think sneakers are useful as a food source.

[shalom aleichem]

Bait truck huh? How about drive your ordinary car in there and see if the tires stay on it?

[17th Miss Regt]

Also, I don’t think sneakers are useful as a food source.

They are, but you need to use a tenderizer for quite a while....

[spintreebob]

Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Chicago Police (especially detectives and lieutenants) intentionally tried to instigate gang fights, often at the urging of the Democrat machine.

This was especially true when a Barretto, Jimmenez, Franco, Correa would turn those alleged gang members political and anti-Democrat machine.

Is it still true in 2018? I’m in Ga now.

[coloradan]

If, in fact, racing is against the law, then the cops in that Camaro were also breaking the law, unlike the cops planting a trunk full of sneakers on the street. Whatever charges you faced for racing the Camaro, the driver of the Camaro should also have faced (if, in fact, we don’t live in a caste system).

[I want the USA back]

If it had been a truck full of alarm clocks or books no one would have touched it

[familyop]

Oh, come on. It’s not like it was a bait truck full of watermelons.

[JustSurrounded]

Undergraduate sexual harassment training at the local university stresses that men who have been baited all night by women must not have sex with those women when they pass out drunk. That is rape. But, if stealing shouldn’t count when the stuff is just sitting there unprotected, I presume it’s not rape when the woman is just lying there unconscious.

Just trying to get the rules straight. Thinking about it further, I suppose it merely confirms there are at least two sets of laws in this country. I am a victim of my middle class upbringing with my middle class morals.

[Big Red Badger]

Contrasts

[Intolerant in NJ]

Chicago Police are under fire after allegedly parking a 'bait truck' full of designer shoes in an impoverished neighborhood, two days in a row...the fiends - practically forcing the bros in the hood to become criminals.....

[Tax-chick]

I suppose some people would rather let their children starve rather than forego status markers.