Posted on 07/08/2018 3:33:50 AM PDT by GonzoII
Thousands of anti-gun protesters shut down lanes of a major Chicago highway to pressure lawmakers to enact gun control measures to address the increase in violent deaths in the city.
The left-wing protesters, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger, shut down all northbound lanes of Chicago’s Dan Ryan Expressway on Interstate 94 Saturday morning after a standoff between the police and the demonstrators.
The marchers carried signs that read, “We need jobs,” and chanted, “Stop the killing,” as they walked down the 1.5-mile stretch of highway to let lawmakers know their desire for better schools, more jobs, and stronger gun control laws to combat the violence in their communities.
Some children even stopped to use chalk to write the words, “Enough is enough,” along the highway route.
“When people keep ignoring you, you take it up a notch,” Pfleger said. “We are going to continue to take it up a notch until we get responses.”
The Illinois State Police reached an agreement with the demonstrators early Saturday morning that the protesters could take up two northbound lanes and allow traffic to pass through the other two lanes.
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office said in a statement that protesters who ignored the boundaries set by highway workers would face arrest and possible prosecution.
But Pfleger and other protesters ignored the warnings, saying they would occupy the entire northbound section of the highway.
After hearing of the chaotic situation that led to the shutdown of the highway, Rauner tweeted his disappointment in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for not controlling the protesters.
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Jackson didn’t make the Photo?!?
Racists!!
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People have similarly asked why he isn’t reassigned to another parish, the way priests are commonly rotated every few years. Simple...he brings in the money, in an area of Chicago where most Catholic churches have either closed or are barely hanging on. Take him and his personality cult away, and St. Sabinas parish is effectively dead within a year.
Am I wrong?
Doesn’t Chicago have the most restrictive gun laws of any city in the country already?
If that’s the case, how can MORE gun laws stop the violent deaths if the ones already in place don’t?
People who don’t listen to the already existing laws are NOT going to listen to MORE laws.
Not to mention that blocking traffic and stranding people on a 4 lane interstate is NOT the way to win people over to your side. All it’s going to do is REALLY, REALLY tick off a whole lot of people.
Oh my.
They are very not happy with this situation.
On the bright side, when TSHTF, we know they’ll side with true patriots.
Car: Thump...Thump...
Semi tractor: Thump...THUMPTHUMP...
Full rig: Thump...THUMPTHUMP... THUMPTHUMP
Mayor Frank Rizzo knew how to prevent such disturbances.
An old enough guy.
Yep watched the helicopters do a bomb run on the projects.
pedestrians are not allowed on highways by law.
they should have ALL been arrested on that simple basis.
probably only a misdemeanor to piss on them from overpasses
“Anti-violence” my lymph nodes. These are the most pro-violence people out there.
I have seen leftists openly saying recently that the United States needs uniformly strict gun laws so that weapons banned in, say, Chicago or Illinois aren't brought in from elsewhere. In other words, they won't stop at restrictive acts in the bigger cities and the states that contain them.
I guess the term *black market* has so fallen out of use that people no longer even consider it.
The old Soviet Union could educate us on the economics of that.
Maybe some people need to be reminded of the old phrase "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
Wow. They sure like to get their taxi drivers all jazzy dressed in Chicago, don’t they?
the original mayor daley would have quickly cleared the road with snowplows
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