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BLM Activists Defend Rioting in Chicago
townhall.com ^ | 8/11/2020 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 08/12/2020 7:31:37 AM PDT by rktman

The violence in Chicago was so severe this weekend that city officials had to lift the drawbridges and close freeway exits to prevent access to and further damage to the downtown area the following night. Over 100 people were arrested in the Sunday riots, and over a dozen police officers were injured. Rioters broke into a Tesla dealership, Walgreens, and several other stores.

Yet, if you ask some Black Lives Matter Chicago activists, they'd loot again. The group held a rally on Monday in support of the violent mob that tore up businesses all across the city, likening the looting to "reparations."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: chicago; looting; riots; thievery
IOW, 'what other choice did they have?'.
1 posted on 08/12/2020 7:31:37 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

The democrat party is allowing this, and giving them moral and material support.


2 posted on 08/12/2020 7:35:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: rktman; All

CHYtown, CHYna

EVIL in the city, EVIL in the country. Identify individuals.


3 posted on 08/12/2020 7:37:05 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: rktman

“Rioting in Chicago is justified because home prices in black neighborhoods are still too high, why I could get a 2 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath in Cleveland for trade with a BlueRay player! Chicago? They still want a few thousand!”


4 posted on 08/12/2020 7:38:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rktman

The Blues Brothers kept going when that drawbridge was going up. “Good pickup.”


5 posted on 08/12/2020 7:45:46 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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6 posted on 08/12/2020 7:46:20 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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Every day in every way, black lives are ceasing to matter.

America is more important than a handful of drugged out criminal blacks


7 posted on 08/12/2020 7:48:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: rktman
It's not looting. It's just Unilateral Reparations because greedy white racists don't want to share their stuff.


8 posted on 08/12/2020 7:49:31 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: Junk Silver

Looks like she just ate an elephant.


9 posted on 08/12/2020 8:09:58 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: rktman

So THIS is what you support, NBA? NFL? MLB?


10 posted on 08/12/2020 8:24:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Junk Silver; rktman; antidemoncrat


11 posted on 08/12/2020 9:35:46 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: Junk Silver

I hope those boxes are not full of sweet rolls!!!!


12 posted on 08/12/2020 12:19:28 PM PDT by terycarl
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