Posted on 08/30/2020 1:55:17 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
In the early hours of Aug. 10, caravans from across the city ransacked high-end stores in and around downtown after rumors circulated on social media that Chicago police had shot and killed a 15-year-old Black boy on the South Side. Police did shoot 20-year-old Latrell Allen, who is Black, the day before. Police allege Allen fired gunshots at them, but officers were not equipped with body-worn cameras, and no other footage of the incident has been made available. Allen is expected to recover.
Images of people walking in and out of department stores with their hands full of products transfixed a confused nation. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the looting “an assault” on Chicago, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson said it was “humiliating” and “morally wrong.”
But young Black activists pushed back. “When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us,” Black Lives Matter Chicago said in a statement after the looting. “These protests can only end when the safety and wellbeing of our communities is finally prioritized.” So which is it? Once the looting stopped, the nation’s attention quickly moved on. But the problems endemic to Chicago, the problems that provided the tinder for this particular blaze, remain. And they deserve to be addressed.
Prioritizing Black communities has always been a problem for Chicago. Since arriving en masse during the Great Migration more than a century ago, Black Chicagoans have been violently relegated to the margins, exploited at every turn and expected to do more with less. Racism in Chicago even shocked Martin Luther King Jr., who said he had “never seen — even in Mississippi and Alabama — mobs as hostile and as hate-filled” as the ones he saw here.
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Bovine feces
“...These protests can only end when the safety and wellbeing of our communities is finally prioritized...”
“...Ten people were killed and 45 more, including two Chicago police officers and a 15-year-old boy, were wounded...”
Y’all really doing a “bang-up” job there...(Pun intended)
The community drives all of it. No politician can do anything for people who won’t be responsible citizens. Yes, they are all Democrats, but you could call them anything and the result would be the same.
Not completely
many of the instigators are from out of state
just there to explicitly destroy things and amp up the problems
out of state people are bringing gas and weapons and crap to WI as well
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