After the riots in Chicago, all that broken glass like shattered dreams

The Chicago Tribune ^ | May 31, 2020 | John Kass

[PBRCat]

After the riots in Chicago, what you noticed was all that broken glass from all the windows of all the looted stores and looted restaurants. Each crunching step was the sound of the city’s breaking heart.

Some residents came out early Sunday to help, trying to sweep up the pieces on the ground.

“This started out to be about George Floyd,” said a man on Clark Street. “But it turned into something else, about what they could grab and take and ruin. Look at it.”

The mayor and the governor finally called out the Illinois National Guard on Sunday to protect downtown, but by then it was too late. Downtown had already been smashed. They’d been caught unprepared for what came at them. Even after Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a 9 p.m. curfew, looting continued. They raged up and down Roosevelt Road on Saturday night and in other parts of the city.

Soon we’ll all be overwhelmed with political spin about who’s at fault and why. As I write this, the progressive Democrats who run Chicago, Cook County and Illinois look shaken, and engage in virtue signaling at a news conference; liberals mugged by reality.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who lowered the felony threshold on shoplifting long ago — triggering a wave of shoplifting by organized booster gangs — is rambling on about her feelings. But those are just words. They don’t sound like broken glass under your boots.

[PBRCat]

81 shot, 19 killed.

How many criminals released from prisons and jails took part in the looting.

Progressive politicians failed to heed intelligence and prepare for the onslaught and let it spiral out of control.

[1Old Pro]

How many criminals released from prisons and jails took part in the looting.

They love it when a plan comes together.

[BipolarBob]

George Floyd would want me to join the protest . . . AND have that 40 inch smart tv at Target.

[butlerweave]

No more windows ,build everything in the Bunker Style

[Pollard]

Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa9GOipyKkU

[blueunicorn6]

Vote Democrat!

When is Pelosi going to condemn the rioting and looting?

[Wallace T.]

There is a term for what is going on: anarcho-tyranny. Liberal run states and cities that have prolonged the COVID-19 shutdown and have mandatory mask laws do nothing to prevent rioting and looting. This isn't even Communism, where law and order prevail, even if the rules are arbitrary and favoritism is shown to the party elite. Anarcho-tyranny is worse.

[hecticskeptic]

Progressive politicians failed to heed intelligence and prepare for the onslaught and let it spiral out of control.

Let's not let the folks off the hook who voted those progs into office....vote them in and you get the politicians you deserve.

[ScottinVA]

To the pro-riot crowd, it’s all just a matter of collateral damage.

[rktman]

“... what they could grab and take...” To some people, “THEY” is automatically racis’.

[ArtDodger]

These riots suit the socialists on so many levels.
create class warfare
create civil unrest
turn youths into thugs
destroy low income neighborhoods
cost millions in destruction
erode everyone’s trust of others

[A_perfect_lady]

It really did not turn into anything else. It was just parts I and II of The Message.

Part I: No More Cops!

Part II: Because They Get in the Way of THIS!

[butlerweave]

When is Pelosi going to condemn the rioting and looting?

When they destroy her Winery and Pizza Shop

[Lurker]

21 killed. Apparently two more died last night.

I no longer GAF.

L

[Old Sarge]

Soon we’ll all be overwhelmed with political spin about who’s at fault and why. As I write this, the progressive Democrats who run Chicago, Cook County and Illinois look shaken, and engage in virtue signaling at a news conference; liberals mugged by reality.

They simply didn't get the DNC talking points before they went on the air.

But they will - and you can distill it down to three words: "Orange Man Bad."

[poinq]

Hitler did the same thing in Germany. We are just repeating the past. But this would not be successful without MSNBC and CNN. They are involved all the way. If you don’t know Randall Stephenson, Bryan Roberts, and Robert Creamer, you don’t know the people who make this happen.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

“Their actions had nothing to do with the man, Mr. Floyd, who should have been honored ...."

The bastardization of the English language continues apace. Honored? For what? Committing a crime for which he was justly detained? What exactly did the creep do that was so "honorable," apart from having a heart attack at the right time, or whatever else it was that did him in? I'll retire to Bedlam.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

“Look what they did to my place,” owner Tony Durpetti told me. I sat with him, and his wife, Marion, and his daughter Michelle at one standing table, the others smashed and tossed around, broken, the liquor stolen. “We’ve gone through so much already.”

A perfect one-two punch, courtesy of your left-wing, terror-sympathizing, state and local governments. Did you help elect them?

[wetgundog]

Start or move your business to a medium size town or the burbs. Chicago is Shitcago and it will not change. Move out and let it fall apart. They deserve it. You don’t.

[null and void]

Progressive politicians failed to heed intelligence and prepare for the onslaught and let it spiral out of control.

You say that like the failure wasn't deLIBerate...