Posted on 01/02/2016 4:30:53 PM PST by simpson96
Several protesters took to popular North Side brunch restaurants on New Year's Day to chant and raise awareness of police violence in Chicago.
The protesters, including members of Black Lives Matter Chicago, the Black Youth Project, and Assata's Daughters, went into restaurants Kanela Breakfast Club and Dove's Luncheonette in Wicker Park and chanted "While you are here celebrating over brunch, black families are struggling to keep themselves safe from CPD."
The protest, which began trending as #BlackBrunchChi on Twitter, was meant to "intervene on the 'celebration' of consumerism, corrupt property zoning/displacement practices, and the retail and service industries' route collusion with police and state violence," according to a statement from Black Lives Matter.
"The 'safety,' economy, property value and social resources across Lake View are made possible by a disastrous tradition of depleting, displacing, economically deserting and aggressively surveilling black communities across the South and West sides of this city," according to the statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
I would just leave...do not eat...do not pay...if the business looses a ton of money maybe next time they’ll call the cops immediately and get those trespassers arrested...
The entire afroturf ‘movement’ is sinister and is going to return to violence.
Where were the protests or even criticisms of the administration because of its abuse of the Bully Pulpit ? When the dozens of; quote; Treyvon made me do it,unquote, murders and assults on whites.asians,and hispanics occured which were inspired by those WH comments during the Zimmerman trial?
Lets not also forget all of those subsequent WH positions claiming black victims :Were based on defending and encouraging black perpetrators resisting legal authority.
And it always happens in a gun-free zone.
Of course, Obambi would like to make the whole country a gun-free zone...
American blacks...Muslims refugees from mud hut camel stops
Any way we can get those two groups together...SOMEWHERE ELSE!
If it’s a gun free zone, the question needs to be asked of the restaurateur, what exactly were you doing to ensure the safety of your customers from the trespassers?
What if one of them had started shooting, do you have an armed guard on the staff?
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