Heck, they’ve been hitting stores on Michigan Avenue for months. Personally I don’t think we’re talking training exercises, unless these guys are morons, likely, you keep that quiet. They’ve simply found an effective way of mobilizing a small mob without burning a neighborhood down. Which attracts attention. I’ve noted that in most of these incidents the criminals aren’t caught. They win. An effective tactic, for a while.
These reports remind me of the ‘wildings’ (rampages by large groups of young thugs in training)several years ago. They didn’t have the internet to coordinate them but groups of young (usually male but not exclusively) would amass and decide that they were a large enough group that they couldn’t be resisted or would be hard to identify individually. They use to roam somewhere in NY and attack/beat/rob/rape people. It wasn’t about money so much as instilling fear. It seems like now they are using the internet and that should allow them to get an even larger number of people together. (wonder if the gov will use that as an excuse to police the internet more). How did they stop the ‘wildings’ in NY?