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Looting in Chicago should be viewed as reparations, BLM rally organizer reportedly says
Just the News ^ | August 11, 2020 - 12:20pm | By Sophie Mann

Posted on 08/11/2020 1:06:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk

leader of a Chicago protest said that looting should be viewed as reparations, according to reports.

In Chicago, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement held a rally on Monday to stand in solidarity with the more than 100 people arrested early that morning during the rioting and looting that took place in the city's downtown area. The looting, which took place during the early hours of Monday morning, caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and injured more than a dozen police officers.

"I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats ... That is reparations," Ariel Atkins told NBC Chicago.

"Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance," she continued.

The social unrest that led to the Monday morning looting began on Sunday afternoon, when a police officer in the city's Englewood neighborhood was involved in a shootout with a 20-year-old man.

The officer had responded to reports of a man with a gun in the neighborhood. As the officer pursued the suspect, the man reportedly turned, and began firing at the officer. The officer fired back and struck the young man, who was taken to a nearby hospital.

One organizer at the demonstration, which was held outside a police station in the city's South Loop, reportedly said the looting should be viewed as "reparations."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arielatkins; blm; chicagoriots; lootingreparations; reparations
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1 posted on 08/11/2020 1:06:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Okay, fine. Let them loot Chicago until the end of the year and then we’re good, right?


2 posted on 08/11/2020 1:08:49 PM PDT by rivercat
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To: Hojczyk

Shooting Looters Dead should be viewed as Justice then.


3 posted on 08/11/2020 1:08:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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When I told my hubby this, his answer was: 600,000 white men died so that your black ass could be free. THAT was reparations.


4 posted on 08/11/2020 1:09:58 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Hojczyk

Im Jewish should I start looting german stores for payback for the Holocaust I could use some freebies


5 posted on 08/11/2020 1:10:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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6 posted on 08/11/2020 1:10:32 PM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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BLM is on record inciting a riot. Book’em Dano. And seize their assets


7 posted on 08/11/2020 1:10:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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Reparations for all the blacks who were killed by...other blacks?


8 posted on 08/11/2020 1:11:48 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

LOL!


9 posted on 08/11/2020 1:13:11 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Hojczyk

After all,it’s just things..People are more important than things,right?????


10 posted on 08/11/2020 1:13:35 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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....looting should be viewed as reparations.....

NOPE!!!!


11 posted on 08/11/2020 1:14:00 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Ah, so to square up the account all these utes need is a pair of Nikes and a flat screen TV?

That’s cheaper than everything the democrats have proposed.

/sarc


12 posted on 08/11/2020 1:15:09 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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The store owners work for the looters for no pay.

Its almost like slavery


13 posted on 08/11/2020 1:18:16 PM PDT by joshua c
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I just can’t eat a thing without my gucci loafers on!


14 posted on 08/11/2020 1:20:16 PM PDT by Marchmain (Salve Regina)
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Let's check the Northwest Ordinance of 1787... nope, slavery wasn't legal there in Chicago.
15 posted on 08/11/2020 1:22:24 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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BLM looters needs a name change.... LTM

Large TVs Matter

16 posted on 08/11/2020 1:26:57 PM PDT by Scooter100
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To: LibertarianLiz

“they can take it because these businesses have insurance,”

My compadre and I were laughing about that at work earlier-any owner of any business knows that once the claim for this damage/loss is paid, that insurer will cancel that business coverage unless the owner moves to a location far away from the present one, in a low crime area-preferably in another town/city...


17 posted on 08/11/2020 1:29:46 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: joshua c
The store owners work for the looters for no pay. Its almost like slavery

It is very much like slavery. Blacks sold fellow blacks into slavery. The Democrats sold those who voted for them down the river to the thugs.

18 posted on 08/11/2020 1:35:03 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Looting in Chicago should be viewed as reparations, BLM rally organizer reportedly says

Good, then we're done.

19 posted on 08/11/2020 1:36:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: Hojczyk

So reparations are two pairs of sneakers?

OK, lets call it even.


20 posted on 08/11/2020 1:39:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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