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Hours of chaos: Police reports paint picture of latest violent disturbance in the Loop {Chicago}
Chicago Tribune ^ | Apr 30, 2023 | Sam Charles and Rosemary Sobol

Posted on 05/01/2023 6:18:28 AM PDT by Salman

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It might have served as a warning to some, as another “teen takeover” unfolded in the heart of downtown the following night, and two teen boys were shot and wounded near Millennium Park.

More than a dozen police reports obtained by the Tribune show how the chaos unfolded as Chicago police for hours struggled to control hundreds of teens and young adults as they darted through traffic, smashed windows and carried out acts of violence.

Large outdoor gatherings of young people aren’t new in Chicago, and the “teen takeover” events — organized on social media, usually a few days in advance — have sometimes turned violent. The gatherings have largely vexed the last two mayors and three Chicago Police Department superintendents. Strategies to handle the youth meet-ups are among the criteria being used to grade candidates for the CPD superintendent job.

Viral cellphone video and news footage of the chaos from April 15 once again renewed criticism of the city’s efforts to tamp down violent crime.

Meanwhile, the police department has opened an internal investigation to probe allegations that officers failed to intervene after they saw a couple being attacked by a mob of teens.

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(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; crime; feral; loop; shootghettothugs
This is shaping up to be an every weekend event. The new normal, Chicago style.
1 posted on 05/01/2023 6:18:28 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

I Don’t care. Just as long as they stay in Chicago.


2 posted on 05/01/2023 6:21:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Wait until the Memorial Day holiday where respectful yutes gather to pay their respects to the fallen military./s


3 posted on 05/01/2023 6:22:06 AM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Salman

It used to be that nothing was allowed in the loop. All the murders and violence you wanted could happen outside the loop but the loop was a green zone. When I was in college in Chicago (in the loop) two men were arguing in a restaurant, the owner called the police and within a minute there were 10 cops there, but that was in the 90s.


4 posted on 05/01/2023 6:28:01 AM PDT by Othniel77
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To: Salman

Cold and windy last two weekends…..


5 posted on 05/01/2023 6:30:23 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Othniel77
When I was in college in Chicago (in the loop) two men were arguing in a restaurant, the owner called the police and within a minute there were 10 cops there, but that was in the 90s.
It could have just as easily been the 2010s.

The dividing line (as with so much else) was the summer of 2020.

6 posted on 05/01/2023 6:43:31 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: dfwgator

Does Kenosha count?


7 posted on 05/01/2023 6:55:01 AM PDT by mission9 (It is by the fruit ye shall know.)
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To: Salman
but added that “it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities

Maybe if they didn't burn, loot and rob all those "opportunities" out of existence they wouldn't burn, loot and rob?? Personally I find this highly entertaining and I hope they continue the destruction of their communities and future.
8 posted on 05/01/2023 6:58:16 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: janetjanet998

Just wait until summer. You will see this in every large city.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 7:45:53 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Salman

Police are powerless against the people but by self-compliance. Teach civics, history again. Curfews and machibe guns wont keep animals down, only civility will. Parents have permitted their children to become animals, and they don’t know better. No enemy here but our laziness.


10 posted on 05/01/2023 7:49:22 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Salman

These days you need a media translator.

“Teens” = “Black teens”.

The truth will set you free.


11 posted on 05/01/2023 7:53:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Salman

Wall off the city and let the Africans live as Africans want to live


12 posted on 05/01/2023 8:29:06 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: cgbg

“These days you need a media translator. “Teens” = “Black teens”.


Just like an intelligent reader of Izvestia, Pravda, or Völkischer Beobachter needed. I for one find this troubling.


13 posted on 05/01/2023 8:42:47 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Salman

Gorillas in our midst.


14 posted on 05/01/2023 8:44:29 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Salman

Heads would have been busted in Daley’s Chicago.


15 posted on 05/01/2023 8:55:48 AM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Organic Panic
Wall off the city and let the Africans live as Africans want to live
Point of information. Chicago is not majority African Americans. They are not even the second most numerous group.

Also worth noting: The "teens" behave like this in their own neighborhoods, and now also downtown. But not in Mexican neighborhoods, not in Chinatown, not in the remaining White Ethnic enclaves.

16 posted on 05/01/2023 8:58:44 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: Salman

Feral negroes, again.


17 posted on 05/01/2023 9:37:32 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

Race problem?

Nope!

Problem race!


18 posted on 05/01/2023 9:41:25 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Salman

Among the hundreds of videos I have seen I have only seen one instance of “teens” of the latino persuasion ransack a store in Los Angeles. I feel safe in assuming the “teens” are of the melanated time terrorizing Chicago’s green zone.


19 posted on 05/01/2023 5:35:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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