'Don’t demonize them': Chicago's new mayor-elect says it's 'not constructive' to vilify group of rowdy teens that torched cars in rampage organized on social media but condemned the chaotic takeover

Daily Mail ^ | April 17, 2023 | By HOPE SLOOP and VANESSA SERNA and JAMES GORDON

[Bon of Babble]

Chicago's mayor-elect said the city should not demonize the teens who organized a 'Teen Takeover' of the Loop over the weekend, even after the event turned violent with cars burnt cars and minors shot.

[Bon of Babble]

"It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities," said Johnson, a progressive Democrat.

[Lurker]

Embrace the suck, Chicago. You voted for this.

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[Feckless]

Dey Dindu Nuffins....

[Bon of Babble]

Meet the new boss...same as (worse than)...the old boss.

Hizz honor, the new mayor of Chicago, thinks those who do this...

...loot, riot, shoot each other and burn cars, should not be condoned.

[Tax-chick]

It’s true that it’s not constructive to “demonize” or “vilify” (fill in direct object).

It’s also not “constructive” to have a polity that’s wholly owned by the public employees’ unions, but there you are, Chicago.

[Lazamataz]

Chicago's mayor-elect said the city should not demonize the teens who organized a 'Teen Takeover' of the Loop over the weekend, even after the event turned violent with cars burnt cars and minors shot.

The reports of this guy being an insane leftist are true.

Chicago will burn, forever.

Usc: Get the eff outta there. I know you aren't in Chicago proper, but spillover will occur.

[SaveFerris]

They’re good kids!!!

[Flag_This]

Not my riot, not my rioters.

[nikos1121]

It’s not even Summer yet?

Does anyone know what the effect all this is having on the price of real estate in Chicago? IOWs, are up scale condos selling at a premium still or are people selling and leaving?

[CodeToad]

But American, non-liberals, should be killed, according to these liberals.

[A_perfect_lady]

If white kids in MAGA hats had done it, there’d be some demonization going on, you can bet.

[AppyPappy]

Don’t demonize the violent insurrectionists?

[dowcaet]

Black Lives Shatter?

[A_perfect_lady]

Not my riot, not my rioters.

Ooooo... I like it.

[Lurker]

“Usc: Get the eff outta there. I know you aren’t in Chicago proper, but spillover will occur.”

You need to understand how things are in this area. If any of these mobs were to venture too far beyond the Cook County line things would end very, very badly for them.

By the time they reached our part of Illinois there’d be a whole lot fewer of them. 90% of them wouldn’t make west of 355.

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[TalBlack]

They demonize themselves.

If they do it around me there’s going to be a problem.

[DeplorablePaul]

“Johnson said he thinks the only path forward is to ‘work together’ to give kids safer spaces”

Chicago’s non criminals need safe spaces more than the wilding gangs. Mass incarceration is the only answer.

[Maris Crane]

“DON’T DEMONIZE THEM??????”

Those innocent little puppies...DEMONIZED THEMSELVES...you pathetic putz.

They ALWAYS manage to blame SOMEONE ELSE.

[Lazamataz]

I lived in the area from 2002 to 2002, but you’re right, I don’t know the area well.

[Vision]

That they are not being held accountable is the problem. The mayor-elect is also the problem. Backwards people create backwards societies.