Posted on 04/20/2023 5:00:47 AM PDT by grundle
The Chicago Police Department launched an investigation into how officers responded to violence that broke out late Saturday during a large gathering of young people in the city’s downtown tourism district.
The investigation comes after a viral video showed a mob attacking a couple as they exited a Loop store and it follows allegations of police inaction.
As the attack unfolded, police failed to respond to calls for help and even drove past, said Lenora Dennis, who witnessed the beating and helped the couple get to safety.
“It makes me feel scared. It terrifies me that people are either asleep at the wheel or that they’re willfully blind,” Dennis told the Tribune on Wednesday.
The attack Dennis witnessed was one of the violent outbursts that emerged as hundreds of teens and young adults met up downtown. People blocked traffic, jumped onto a CTA bus and attacked passersby during the mayhem, and two teen boys were shot as they stood in the crowd.
The chaos has since sparked national coverage, and video of the attack Dennis saw, first published by the CWB Chicago website, garnered national attention with over 14 millions views on Twitter alone.
But what video didn’t capture, Dennis said, was repeated inaction from nearby police officers as the 20-year-old woman and 22-year-old man from out of state were punched and kicked by over a dozen people.
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Rodney King riots.
And they finally admitted there were adults participating in this riot. Most of the MSM kept saying “teens” and now they include “young” adults. What is it with MSM that they call blacks “teens” whenever something like this happens?
“””So here’s my question: What action could the police possibly have taken to stop that assault, without progressives accusing the police of engaging in police brutality?”””
This answers the first part of your question but not the second, the second part involves taking the vote from women and ending immigration.
When I was a kid in Houston we used to hear a story about a Texas Ranger who went to a trailer park to look for someone, when the Hispanic men started gathering and closing a tightening crowd around him, he pulled a Thompson submachine out the trunk of his car and sprayed the ground in front of him, to make his position clear.
The problem isn’t the cops. It’s the democrats in power who allowed the street savage problem to grow. It can’t be solved by cops. At this point there is no solution that everyone would accept.
Since it’s democrats who have the power, they will no doubt throw some money at the street savage problem, and that will make it worse.
As always, the law-abiding non-violent people who go to work every day like slaves are the ones who will be forced to pay and to suffer.
What action could the police possibly have taken to stop that assault, without progressives accusing the police of engaging in police brutality?
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They should do their job and ignore any complaints or whining by any leftist anywhere in the world. Leftist whining, bitching, moaning, griping and complaining occurs daily and is as common as sand on the beach. To hell with them.
protect and serve...the criminal element.
Yep, rock and hard place when the mayor tells police not to pursue criminals. They need to quit or perform their jobs.
Bingo! Spot on. the people of Chicongo keep putting idiots in office, so there city can burn, same goes for Portland and the idiot centers in Wisconsin.
If they can’t harass people about masks, enforce lockdowns or leftist mandates, the police aren’t interested.
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