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Black Friday in Chicago: ‘No Justice–No Shopping!’
Breitbart ^ | November 27, 2015 | LEE STRANAHAN

Posted on 11/27/2015 12:16:18 PM PST by maggief

Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago-the "Magnificent Mile"-in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.

The 17-year-old was killed in October 2014, and was apparently armed with a knife at the time. Video of the shooting released on Tuesday, however, shows that he was walking away from police at the time he was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke.

Turnout was strong despite 39-degree weather and rainy conditions. Demonstrators shouted "16 shots!" and "No justice, no shopping!"

The march started at Michigan and Wacker Drive and began walking north. They include demonstrators from the Nation of Islam, which is marching under the banner of "Justice of Else"; RevCom, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH coalition.

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To: Secret Agent Man

The reason they’re not marching in front of the mayor’s office or the police department is they want white liberal elites to solve their problems for them.

Maybe Hillary can come talk to them and promise them their piece of the pie... and this time she REALLY mean it.


61 posted on 11/27/2015 12:52:19 PM PST by GOPJ (Syrian (Sunni Muslim) refugees are like Nazi war criminals fleeing Berlin after losing the war.)
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To: Mouton
M-60 time.

I've found the M18 Claymore to be a much more effective "crowd pleaser."

62 posted on 11/27/2015 12:53:23 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: maggief

Eh, the sales weren’t that great anyway.


63 posted on 11/27/2015 12:53:32 PM PST by a real Sheila (It has all been said before)
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To: LauraJean

Yep. Yet if he had stabbed somebody with the knife, they wouldn’t have shown his face at all.

Not saying I agree with the whole takedown, but he had to be stopped.


64 posted on 11/27/2015 12:54:04 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Pollster1

The reason blacks are protesting white liberal elites shopping is because they want white liberal elites to solve their problem for them.


65 posted on 11/27/2015 12:55:11 PM PST by GOPJ (Syrian (Sunni Muslim) refugees are like Nazi war criminals fleeing Berlin after losing the war.)
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To: maggief

Just shop online and tell them to get stuffed . I think their Mamma’s do all their shopping anyway


66 posted on 11/27/2015 12:56:40 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: jobim

I used to shoot with a Highway Patrol officer, many years ago. We went to the range a time or two. He told me he once had a guy about 50 feet away with a knife. Both this trooper and his supervisor had their weapons drawn and on the guy. The guy told me, before he knew what happened, the guy got to him and stuck him with the knife. I don’t know what happened to the knife-guy. He may have told me but I don’t recall.


67 posted on 11/27/2015 12:57:07 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: maggief
Like the old days send in the cops with billy clubs and Rin Tin Tin and start cracking some skulls.
68 posted on 11/27/2015 1:03:08 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Easy on the turkey sandwiches.)
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To: GOPJ

Not only, but they are also unable to solve their own problems. Unable and so often unwilling to.


69 posted on 11/27/2015 1:04:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CodeToad

“Nothing a few gallons of gas and a match couldn’t stop.”

WHAT an awesome idea!

Heck, just get a dozen MEN to calmly pour a line of gas all along their “protest” line...

Watch em go “what da HELL?!?!” and RUN from the scene.


70 posted on 11/27/2015 1:10:20 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: maggief

I keep seeing this claim that the perp was shot 16 times.

I saw a police report saying 16 shots were fired. How many of those shots hit the perp has not been released as far as I know.

I’m fine with 16 shots other than the danger to bystanders. The question is whether any shots were proper, not how many were fired.

Anyway, the officer has been charged with 1st degree murder. I don’t know what else can be done other than groveling at this point.


71 posted on 11/27/2015 1:27:32 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Yup. I just got back from the NW suburbs. No one in their right mind is driving to the Mag Mile to shop., BLM or not. That is for tourists and rich liberals on the Gold Coast.


72 posted on 11/27/2015 1:35:25 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
So glad I'm not working downtown today and am on vacation this week. I don't think I could stand being around all those gang banging thugs urbanites without fearing for my life and having to draw my weapon in self defense.

Thank God I start working from home almost exclusively after January 1st.

73 posted on 11/27/2015 1:39:15 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 4yearlurker

FIRE HOSE used to do the trick


74 posted on 11/27/2015 1:42:02 PM PST by easternsky
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To: stars & stripes forever
It could happen. State Street is damn' near dead. Macy's is the only "anchor" left there after Carson Pirie Scott closed up shop a few years ago and Sears left.

Before Macy's took over and renamed Marshall Fields, wife and I went there every year for breakfast by the Christmas Tree. After our kids were born we'd take them and the grandparents there every year. Breakfast, annual coffee mugs and annual picture by the tree. Once Macy's took it over, we quit. I hate Macy's and State Street is just a run down craphole of a street with nothing left on it.

75 posted on 11/27/2015 1:44:12 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Leaning Right
Point four: Officer Jason Van Dyke was on the scene for SIX SECONDS when he stepped out of his police vehicle and opened fire on Laquan McDonald.

That's crystal clear in the video. No way McDonald isn't convicted of murder, unless it's an all white jury "sending a message" via jury nullification just like the all black jury did in the OJ Simpson case.

Gee, wouldn't that be something huh?

By the way, why isn't anyone asking all the other police officers that were present and visible in the now FIVE video's that have surfaced if any of them felt like their lives were in danger? They were certainly on the scene much longer than Officer Van Dyke was and none of them opened fire.

76 posted on 11/27/2015 1:50:56 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Great point.


77 posted on 11/27/2015 1:54:58 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftists is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Just think how much shoplifting losses have gone down.


78 posted on 11/27/2015 1:58:28 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Dey gets to show off dey new $200 dreads, man! Gotta have
someplace besides the hood to show off them spensive
dreads, man! “Makin’ Whitey pay for dreads since dreads
got poplar, Man!”


79 posted on 11/27/2015 2:03:05 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: fatnotlazy

‘’If I were a stockholder in these big retail companies, I would be screaming bloody murder.’’


But the stockholders don’t seem to care. The price of Nordstrom’s stock went down a mere 18 cents today even with the Chicago protests going viral all over the media.

But Nordstrom’s will survive. It’s Chicago that people should be worried about. What investor in his or her right mind will continue to buy Chicago’s municipal bonds now? In fact, what investor in his or her right mind won’t sell
whatever Chicago bonds they might already have in their possession?

Chicago is already on the edge of bankruptcy. If Mayor Emanuel doesn’t care about his city’s retail owners and the right of his citizens to buy Christmas presents freely, shouldn’t he at least care about the teachers and other municipal workers whom he’ll have to lay off when the city inevitably goes bust?


80 posted on 11/27/2015 2:19:04 PM PST by Bluestocking
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