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Looting, Unrest Overnight Across Downtown Chicago; The Loop Shut Down
CBS Chicago ^ | August 10, 2020 at 6:00 am | CBS 2 Chicago Staff

Posted on 08/10/2020 4:51:49 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

CHICAGO (CBS)– Dozens of stores, banks and other businesses were broken into across downtown Chicago overnight.

The unrest started around 11 p.m. Sunday and cause of the unrest is still unknown at this time, but it does appear to be a coordinated effort. VIdeo shows multiple cars parked on the streets as people ran out and broke into stores.

Bridges surrounding The Loop are closed to traffic. Expressway ramps leading into the downtown area are also shut down.

The Best Buy at North and Clybourn was destoyed by looters. Boxes and debris from stolen merchandise were strewn across the parking lot. “Everything is complete chaos,” reports CBS 2’s Jeanette Hudson. The damage looked more like a torndao had hit the area.

Vi Nguyen @ViNguyen

Mass chaos in downtown Chicago. Hundred of people looting stores. Looters broke into a bank and ripped out the atm. They are trying to break into it. This is at State and Lake.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banks; bidenrally; bidensfault; chicago; chicagoriots; demagogicparty; illinois; looting; obamasfault; riot; robbing
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To: GnuThere

Solar flares?


21 posted on 08/10/2020 5:32:16 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Chitcogo needs to get with the program, Detoilet hasn’t had anything worth looting for years.


22 posted on 08/10/2020 5:39:02 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: metmom
Flash mobs are set up via social media and that must be just fine & dandy.

Need to find proof and sue them black & blue.

23 posted on 08/10/2020 5:39:46 AM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: chuckee

Burning, Looting, Mayhem. That way we don’t forget the white antifa involvement. Those idiots mostly live in the suburbs and their stupid parents might be persuaded to vote for law and order come November.


24 posted on 08/10/2020 5:42:39 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Texas Fossil

Midnight Shopping, a new democrat program for troubled yutes.


25 posted on 08/10/2020 5:43:00 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Most in the BLM movement are pampered young white liberals, so it’s really hard to tell who’s doing what based on color.”

With a bunch of mud sharks bringing up the rear.


26 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:28 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: palmer

Videos showed that most of the looters were black.

I’m guessing that next weekend it will be the white Antifa that will be bused into Chicago to continue the fight against white Capitalist oppression.


27 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:56 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: metmom

“It’s time for locals to Koreatown them.”

The locals we are talking about here are not made of the same stuff. They are mostly urban hipsters and older well off idiots who moved into the city for it’s “diversity”, “vibrancy”, and nightlife. Filthy liberal democrats all who coudn’t fight their way out of a tissue paper bag. The rioters aren’t pulling this shit in China Town, Vietnamese or Mexican neighborhoods.


28 posted on 08/10/2020 5:54:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

I have to laugh when liberals, as some of my in-laws are, carry on about diversity.

Enjoy your diversity when it comes back to bite you.

My son used to work at an Ivy League school and had an Indian guy tell him that sure, it’s racially diverse, but it’s basically an echo chamber. One opinion allowed.

The guy worked at other places that were not so racially diverse but had a great deal more diversity of THOUGHT.

A very interesting perspective.


29 posted on 08/10/2020 6:27:26 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Texas Fossil

“cause of the unrest is still unknown at this time, but it does appear to be a coordinated effort”

What an effin joke that this was posted by a “news” organization.


30 posted on 08/10/2020 6:27:41 AM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: CheneyClone

They’re buying time to try to figure out what white wing supremacist group to blame for it.


31 posted on 08/10/2020 6:31:29 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RoosterRedux

In the earlier summer riots, the peaceful protestors reportedly threw hammers through second story windows, not sure it they reached higher or not.
Not much of a stretch to imagine a few nimble ones scaling up with some climbing equipment, or busting in through fire escapes.


32 posted on 08/10/2020 6:55:16 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: CheneyClone

“News” Organization?

Propaganda Agency.


33 posted on 08/10/2020 7:38:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: chuckee

Yes, Loot.

Followed by arson and murder.

This time they are attacking banks. Stealing ATM machines to get money. THAT is a Federal offense.

Lets see how many will be indentified.


34 posted on 08/10/2020 7:42:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: metmom

Fast? Nope.

It went on for 4-5 hours that I could see video for.


35 posted on 08/10/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Diogenesis

Unknown?

Your points is well taken.


36 posted on 08/10/2020 7:43:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: metmom
metmom:" This would destabilize the cities in ways that are unimaginable.
It’s time for locals to Koreatown them."

Yes, and Yes.
Unfortunately, this will also lead to civilian vigilantism.

37 posted on 08/10/2020 7:58:15 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: GnuThere
Walmart sells grappling hooks for rock climbing, etc. Perfect for pulling down fire escape ladders to street level.
38 posted on 08/10/2020 8:33:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: metmom

Some apartment buildings in NYC are empty while all residents have gone to the country or the Hamptons. A team of “protesters” could take its time without worrying about the police.


39 posted on 08/10/2020 8:40:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Texas Fossil

LBJ’s chickens have come home to roost.


40 posted on 08/10/2020 8:43:30 AM PDT by bkopto
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