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Christopher Columbus statue taken down hours after Lightfoot ordered its removal
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 24, 2020 | Tom Schuba

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; chicago; groot; kareensha; kareenshagroot; lightfoot; lightweight; mayorgroot
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What's next? Removing the red star on the Chicago city flag which signifies the Columbian Exposition -- World's Fair (1892-1893) that honored Christopher Columbus? Closing Columbus Park on the city's West Side?

Lori Lightfoot is a moral coward.

1 posted on 07/24/2020 4:11:13 AM PDT by PBRCat
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Two cranes pulled their way up to the statue just before 2 a.m. Friday..

Operating in the dead of night, A sure sign of government malfeasance.


2 posted on 07/24/2020 4:15:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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The Feds are still coming! This means nothing!


3 posted on 07/24/2020 4:15:21 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: PBRCat

Columbus was an explorer, nothing else. Is exploration to be poo-poo’ed now by the brave social justice warriors?


4 posted on 07/24/2020 4:15:22 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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I’m sure that will appease the rioters and looters. Life will now go back to normal in Chicago.


5 posted on 07/24/2020 4:18:38 AM PDT by skams19
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To: Flick Lives

The same thing that that prick Daley did to Meigs Field.


6 posted on 07/24/2020 4:18:39 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: PBRCat

Democrats simply can’t be trusted in positions of authority.


7 posted on 07/24/2020 4:19:32 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: skams19

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.


8 posted on 07/24/2020 4:20:51 AM PDT by laconic
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Normal, in Chicago, being a relative term.


9 posted on 07/24/2020 4:21:08 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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We are going to be a modern version of an Orthodox Jewish state.

We will have no graven images in public spaces because you can not erect a statue that will not offend someone.

10 posted on 07/24/2020 4:22:53 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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The mayor is turning Chicago into a prison.

It’s the only thing she’s fit to run.


11 posted on 07/24/2020 4:24:37 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Not aware this was a duty of the mayor. I really wish someone would take that racist miserable POS out of our lives, permanently.


12 posted on 07/24/2020 4:25:30 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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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.


13 posted on 07/24/2020 4:28:11 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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Shitcago Italians won’t be happy!


14 posted on 07/24/2020 4:29:59 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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15 posted on 07/24/2020 4:30:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Columbus was an explorer, nothing else.

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.

16 posted on 07/24/2020 4:31:01 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Flick Lives

The American people order her removal


17 posted on 07/24/2020 4:32:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Meanwhile, check out the number of cops guarding Groot’s house....

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1

See “Who Is Watching 014?”


18 posted on 07/24/2020 4:34:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Bonemaker

Ain’t she a beauty?


19 posted on 07/24/2020 4:34:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: PBRCat

Radical black women are in charge of just about every major city right now.


20 posted on 07/24/2020 4:37:09 AM PDT by jersey117
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