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Posted on 07/24/2020 4:11:13 AM PDT by PBRCat
The Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park was removed hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for its removal.
Two cranes pulled their way up to the statue just before 2 a.m. Friday, after hours of vocal confrontations between protestors and supporters of the statue, including John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.
The decision to take down two monuments to Columbus came after violent clashes between police and protesters broke out last week when activists attempted to tear down a statue of the Italian explorer in Grant Park.
“This statue coming down is because of the effort of Black and Indigenous activists who know the true history of Columbus and what he represents,” said Stefan Cuevas-Caizaguano, a resident watching the removal.
The monument was removed about 3 a.m. Crews were also preparing to remove another statue in Arrigo Park on the Near West Side.
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) told the Chicago Sun-Times late Thursday that Lightfoot made “a unilateral decision” to take down the statues. Hopkins said the intention was to have them removed Thursday night.
“At this hour, there is discussion about postponing the removal, but the mayor has not indicated any reversal of her decision,” he said.
The mayor’s office didn’t respond to multiple requests seeking comment.
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Lori Lightfoot is a moral coward.
Two cranes pulled their way up to the statue just before 2 a.m. Friday..
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Operating in the dead of night, A sure sign of government malfeasance.
The Feds are still coming! This means nothing!
Columbus was an explorer, nothing else. Is exploration to be poo-poo’ed now by the brave social justice warriors?
I’m sure that will appease the rioters and looters. Life will now go back to normal in Chicago.
The same thing that that prick Daley did to Meigs Field.
Democrats simply can’t be trusted in positions of authority.
She can’t do anything about more than 400 murders in six months (including several young children) but she is very efficient about taking down a statue like a thief in the night. A total incompetent; I’m just glad I no longer live in Chicago and own no property there.
Normal, in Chicago, being a relative term.
We will have no graven images in public spaces because you can not erect a statue that will not offend someone.
The mayor is turning Chicago into a prison.
It’s the only thing she’s fit to run.
Not aware this was a duty of the mayor. I really wish someone would take that racist miserable POS out of our lives, permanently.
the fish-faced Lightweight IGNORES women getting
ice-picked in the head to steal their cars,
IGNORES children shot in the head while they sleep,
IGNORES murders and rapes piling up 5x faster than
when fish-face was elsewhere.
why?
to attack a bronze statue.
CHICAGO HAS KNOWINGLY CHOSEN ... to die.
Shitcago Italians won’t be happy!
He was much more than that.
He was an evangelizing Catholic Christian.
On his later voyages he asked Ferdinand and Isabella to send priest with him to convert the Indians.
He also did as best he could to keep his men from taking advantage of the Indians.
He was a very Christian man. In my opinion worthy of Veneration at least.
The American people order her removal
Meanwhile, check out the number of cops guarding Groot’s house....
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
See “Who Is Watching 014?”
Ain’t she a beauty?
Radical black women are in charge of just about every major city right now.
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