Posted on 09/09/2021 8:24:29 AM PDT by simpson96
Arab and Asian American small business owners mainly running gas station pantries accuse the City of Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot of forcing them to close in the misguided belief that closing their stores will help reduce the violence that is sweeping throughout the city.
Dozens of gas stations and other small businesses owned by Arabs and minorities including Pakistanis, Indian and some African Americans operating in the city’s toughest neighborhoods are being forced to close on flimsy code violation citations.
Lightfoot has ordered the Chicago Police to create a Special Task Force consisting of Police Officers and City Inspectors from all aspects of city licenses and permits to target stores in heavy crime areas to force them to close down. Lightfoot’s team brushed off concerns expressed to the city during a meeting held in August to address the issue.
Nearly a dozen store owners were interviewed for this story, but their names and identities have been excluded to prevent the city from punishing them more. Many of the store owners said they fear retribution from the city but are planning a press conference Thursday to raise public awareness, to get support from members of the Chicago City Council, and to pursue legal action.
“What they are doing is trying to make it look like they are doing something to fight the street gang violence. But it will have no impact whatsoever except to harm the only local businesses that provide services in neighborhoods where the gangs operate,” a store owner contended.
In another instance, a gas station pantry owner said the Special Task Force inspectors openly debated the status of his gas station, with one complaining, “I can’t find any violations.” The Task Force leader then barked, “I don’t care. Find something and shut him down.”
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It will just draw legal issues and lawsuits against the city, with damages going into the tens of millions for the fake closure orders.
Even the police have to be shaking their head over the orders from ‘above’.
How about putting the bad guys in jail so the rest of us can be free to enjoy life in the city.
So she’s intentionally creating food deserts in her city.
Insanity.
First in here with “what a genius and a leader Lightfoot is.”
Uh, where is everybody else to agree with me? It’s so quiet now.
They elected her.....they get what they deserve I guess
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Sometimes you wonder at the bizarre ‘solutions’ liberals come up with. Of course the objective is never actually solving anything. It is always something designed to increase their power.
This is right up there with “Women wouldn’t be raped if they stopped wearing short skirts.”
Lightfoot — “Stores wouldn’t be robbed if they didn’t sell all those nice products.”
This mayor is the stupidest woman in America. I’m always astonished at how such people get elected.
>They elected her.....they get what they deserve I guess
I’ll post this as often as it takes (not just you) ... that phrase is dead, knowing what we do about election fraud — and Chicago is the home of systematic election fraud.
“putting the bad guys in jail”
My, aren’t you quaint and old-fashioned!
How is shutting down businesses supposed to fight crime?
Capitalism causes violence.
Just when you think you’d seen it all from Lori Lightfoot....
Punish the innocent, reward the guilty.
It’s the Marxist way.
She is completely incompetent.
It only makes sense. Urban blacks resent ‘foreigners’ willing to do business in ‘their’ neighborhoods. This resentment leads to violence. The violence is caused by the foreigners’ mere presence.
/s
“How about putting the bad guys in jail so the rest of us can be free to enjoy life in the city.”
OMG, NO!! That’s too simple, just like going duck hunting where the ducks are.
Have Americans given up on yet another freedom-—the right to succeed by investing and working to build a private enterprise in a free country? The way so many people started at the bottom and gained experience and went on to have their own successful businesses?
Guess that’s over. Lightfoot Dem types said so.
God Bless the USA last stanza....
And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land
God bless the USA
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