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Of ‘Teen Takeovers’ and Television News
American Thinker ^ | 11 Mar, 2024 | Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel

Posted on 03/11/2024 4:20:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

On Sunday evening, July 30, at around 8:00, I was in a supermarket near Roosevelt and Canal in Chicago’s South Loop, an upscale shopping, health club and movie hub on the edge of downtown. The area has been regarded as safe and on the upswing since the late 1990s and is even being considered for a new White Sox park or Bears stadium.

While entering the store I noticed scores of African American teenagers lining the street. At first, I thought that there was some kind of festival or parade. But there was already a city policeman guarding the entrance. I asked him what was going on. He replied that something called a “teen takeover” was beginning, and that the Chicago Police Department had been monitoring it but that they were so far outnumbered.

After my purchase I drove out from the parking garage, only to see a mob approaching. I changed direction immediately, away from the crowd, and proceeded several blocks to the opposite end of downtown until I could exit onto a roundabout route home.

I had heard of previous flash mob events in Chicago and elsewhere during which teenagers had been playing chicken with the police or pursuing dangerous encounters such as fighting, throwing things, jumping on cars, and looting.

On my drive home I switched on Chicago’s twenty-four hour radio news station, WBBM, and not a word was said about the growing crowd, even though WBBM is known for its traffic reports and for announcing “police incidents” that may affect drivers. Here was a clear obstruction -- and possible danger -- to drivers in real time, and there was no radio warning to them!

After the much longer trip home due to the unexpected detour, I called WBBM and its affiliated CBS2 Chicago

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To: Brooklyn Attitude

AI generated picture of youths rioting in chicago.


21 posted on 03/11/2024 5:57:12 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: GOPJ

I’m sure the teens all have earbuds pumping out insipid rap “music.”


22 posted on 03/11/2024 5:59:00 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: GOPJ; MtnClimber
“the beautiful opera music that the management pipes outside via loudspeakers”

Opera music is played to keep 'the teens' from gathering.

It works! When I lived in an Italian-American rowhouse neighborhood, I used bombastic choral, orchestral or organ music, like "Lord Nelson's Mass," whenever the mobsters or unruly teens were on my pavement out front. They would wander away...

23 posted on 03/11/2024 6:04:05 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: FLT-bird

Americans


24 posted on 03/11/2024 6:05:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: mewzilla

Blacks aren’t untouchable.

They’re victimized by other blacks.

Law-abiding blacks are under threat as much as law-abiding people of every skin color.

If you’re a victim of crime, WTH difference does the skin color of the perp make?!
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You are correct in any sane world. My point is, when the perps are black, the news won’t cover it, or the news suppresses it.


25 posted on 03/11/2024 6:05:54 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: rlmorel

I know exactly how you felt. My former workplace was near there. I used the Skywalk once.

Once was enough.

“When you get the message, hang up the phone.” —Alan Watts


26 posted on 03/11/2024 6:07:32 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: PGalt
Speaking of Haiti...

“This video has been deleted.”

27 posted on 03/11/2024 6:09:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: rxh4n1
Either he is stupid or recklessly brave. Why would he go back downtown at night after the first experience? Eventually, one of these mobs will kill a bystander.

He mentions several points in the downtown that he frequents. He is a rabbi. Possibly his place of work is a large old downtown synagogue. All clergy in Dem cities face this challenge, saddled with historic buildings existing on fumes.

28 posted on 03/11/2024 6:13:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: yldstrk; mewzilla
Blacks aren’t untouchable. They’re victimized by other blacks.

mewzilla was probably indicating that blacks are untouchable by the media. The media are actively participating in the victimization by promoting the woke narrative (“black disorder is entirely the fault of white oppression”) instead of the objective truth.

29 posted on 03/11/2024 6:19:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: rxh4n1

The writer seems like a nice person with no common sense and out of touch with his surroundings. This is 2024, almost no metropolitan area is safe after dark. And Chicago? He is simply living the life of a fat hen, waiting to be slaughtered.

Is this sad? No, it’s infuriating. But he tolerates it and, worse, pays taxes to support it. He is part of the problem he laments. I will try to remember his name so I don’t read his whimpering drivel again. Unless the title to the article is, “I finally moved out of Illinois.”


30 posted on 03/11/2024 6:27:24 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan, shilled $150 million this past week, in his first cash-out since taking the reins at the bank nearly two decades ago.

Within days, Apollo Global Management’s Leon Black also enacted his first-ever sale, shedding $172.8million in his equity firm after 34 years. Walmart’s Walton family sold $1.5billion in a week, bringing its total sale proceeds to $2.3billion since December.

The series of transactions were all made within weeks of each other, and have already sparked conversation amongst onlookers.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13180433/billionaires-Jeff-Bezos-Leon-Black-Mark-Zuckerberg-sell-stocks.html

OBSERVATION - As the article notes, there are several theories being bantered about over the timing and amounts of these transactions. Over all, the guess is that they see ‘uncertainty’ in the economy in the upcoming months due in part to the elections and other potential factors that would stall the economy. Some are saying they are trying to ‘diversify’. What ever the reason, these heavyweights are responding at market highs to something that has appeared
on their common radar

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To diversify? Into other currencies? Any guess what they’re buying?


31 posted on 03/11/2024 7:55:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I’m sure you’re right...


32 posted on 03/11/2024 7:56:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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To: GOPJ

What does this very interesting tidbit have to do with the posts?


33 posted on 03/11/2024 8:07:00 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I never heard that quote before! But...relevant it its!


34 posted on 03/11/2024 8:09:42 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MtnClimber

Keep these teens within their large city environments (perhaps a wall can be built to encircle these areas). Then let them have at it. Praise the narrative setters at main stream media for using sweet sounding words, and never alerting parents of these teens of any potential criminal activity, present or expected. Laud and give high praise to Democrat politicians who vote to defund and remove the police so no one has to go to jail. If these teens can be kept within their home areas, eventually the matter will self-dispose.

This could be the only hope for the law abiding.


35 posted on 03/11/2024 8:09:47 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: MtnClimber
I changed direction immediately, away from the crowd...

It's pretty obvious that the Rabbi is a racist. No need to read further.

36 posted on 03/11/2024 8:25:48 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: The Louiswu
The coming turf wars between the Mexican Cartels and The established black gangs should be pretty bloody as both sides play for keeps and fight all out.

The cartel-affiliated gangs (which is really all Mexican gangs of any real size) have already been kicking the crap out of the black gangs for years.
37 posted on 03/11/2024 9:13:38 AM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: MtnClimber

I have been in broadcast TV news for decades. I can tell you that a conservative walks a lonely road in a newsroom, even more so in markets of any appreciable size. They are all about the leftist agenda, so in a city like Chicago with a mayor such as the leftist apologist they have (which replaced the leftist apologist that was thrown out of office last year), they will tout the liberal line. So it wasn’t a “mob”, it was a group of teenagers. It wasn’t theft, it was mischief. It wasn’t tend of thousands of dollars in property damage, it was expressing themselves. Like Ilhan Omar couching the 9/11/2001 attacks as “some people did something”. While a true statement, it fails to accurately describe it.

Words mean things. The right words are important. You can sell a rape an “undocumented date” and a drug deal as an “undocumented prescription” or car theft as ass “undocumented test drive” just like the left takes illegal aliens and euphemises them as “undocumented migrants”, or the new term that started last week, “newcomers”.

“A rose by any other name”, said Shakespeare, “would smell just as sweet.” The same applies to the stench of aberrant and unacceptable behavior that liberals always want to make smell, well, rosy. It wasn’t an urban mob, you see, it was just a bunch of teenagers, who if you read the copy that local news uses, “were just starting to turn their lives around”.
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Their constant attempts to make this kind of behavior normal, even good (what’ wrong with a bunch of teenagers??”) but if it’d YOUR store and YOUR merchandise getting plundered, it’d a different story entirely. “oh, but they’re insulted, let the insurance pay for it”. Right. The deductible comes out of whose pocket? The time and cost of clean up, the lack of stuff to sell while it gets replaced, the immeasurable but very real toll on employees that are stuck there while the wandering hordes commit their destruction, that doesn’t get paid for by insurance. And businesses pay higher premiums as a result. “They own a store, they are rich, they can afford it”. The people who say this (we the former mayor did) have never had to actually run a business.

As long as we allow liberals to downplay the actions of what we call criminals but they call constituents, it’s only gonna get worse.


38 posted on 03/11/2024 9:27:42 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: VideoPaul

I was faculty at a university. Were there conservatives? Yes. Do they speak out? No. Many were like me. To the other people in the building, I was a liberal. I knew how to play the game for my enjoyment. I was good at out-virtue signaling a liberal. Quick to describe Joe Biden as “too conservative”(liberals usually nodded their head).

I don’t have to worry about mobs of teens in Appalachia.


39 posted on 03/11/2024 9:36:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: AppyPappy

Mobs of teens would quickly turn to a bunch of patients in ICU were that nonsense to happen in the mountains.

Here in the urban flatlands, the mobs of teenagers are the “victims” and stealing is seen as “reparations”.


40 posted on 03/11/2024 11:38:22 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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