Posted on 08/11/2020 5:31:38 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Black Lives Matter Chicago said early Monday's looting of stores was a form of 'reparations' as the group held a protest Monday night in support of the more than 100 people arrested after an evening of violence. Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting reparations.
'I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,' Atkins said. 'That makes sure that person has clothes. 'Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.'
Downtown Chicago was otherwise quiet after authorities cut off access, with drawbridges leading into the city pulled up and freeway exits blocked after riots sparked by a false rumor of a child shot by police. At least 13 police officers were injured as the violence claimed an estimated $65 million in property damage.
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The man whose actions sparked the unrest, 20-year-old Latrell Allen, was charged with attempted murder of police.
Allen, who had previous arrests for child endangerment, domestic battery and burglary, was confronted by police on Sunday afternoon and fled, turning around and shooting multiple rounds at officers as he fled. He was shot and injured by police, returning fire, and rumor then spread that a child had been killed by officers.
Social media was soon alight with rallying cries for protests and looting.
Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx dropped charges against several hundred protesters arrested for looting and other offenses during the George Floyd protests.
David Brown, Chicago Police Superintendent, said at the Monday press conference that looters could have been behaving ‘as if there are not consequences’ because of ‘what happened previously’.
A reporter, addressing the police chief, said: ‘It almost sounds as though you were saying the reason we have this is the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they were going too easy on the looters from the last time around. Is that my understanding?’
Brown replied: ‘Don’t take it from me. Just go about what’s been done. I don’t want to do your job for you but go about what’s been done. There were no consequences for the people arrested.’
At this point, Lightfoot stood up and addressed the reporter.
‘Let’s be clear,’ she said. ‘Don’t bait us! OK? Do not bait us. Do not bait us.
‘This is a serious situation. People are concerned about their safety. Officers are concerned about their safety. So don’t bait us.
‘What we’re saying is, as a result of what happened last night, there have to be consequences.
‘We’ve got teams of people that are aggressively out there identifying the people responsible, looking at the plates, and working on bringing them to justice.
‘But when we do, and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period.’
She angrily denied that Foxx’s decision, or any other ruling by the Chicago authorities, contributed towards the unrest.
‘Don’t try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other,’ she said.
‘We’re not playing that. We’re in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response. That’s what we’re saying, period.’
Coming soon to a city near you.
By taking food and clothing from the store owners?!
They don’t all have insurance and your little “poor and starving waifs” didn’t just go after Gucci’s and Nike but little mom and pop stores that don’t have insurance and now don’t have stores because you not only STOLE their goods but DESTROYED their businesses.
The guy’s an idiot communist and needs to be shot.
When the Miracle Mile closes their retail and restaurants it will turn into a Ghetto with daily murders. This is what happens when voters vote for Democrats.
Lightfoot said it was disturbing that the looters targeted small businesses that are still struggling to recover from months of COVID-19 closures.
‘This was an assault on our city. It undermines public safety and breathes a sense of insecurity among our residents. It undermines our recovery efforts - these same stores were hit previously, not just by looting but by closures related to COVID-19. They are also small stores and restaurants all of which we’re in the process of recovering and getting back to work, and now this.’
She said there was ‘no justification’ for the looting, and said it had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, or George Floyd, or Michael Brown - the Missouri teenager shot dead six years ago Sunday. ‘I don’t care - I do not care - whatever justification was given for this,’ she said. ‘There is no justification for criminal behavior ever. You have no right to take and destroy the property of others. Our residents deserve to be safe. Our businesses deserve to understand and enjoy safety and security,’ she said.
“Downtown Chicago was otherwise quiet after authorities cut off access, with drawbridges leading into the city pulled up and freeway exits blocked after riots sparked by a false rumor of a child shot by police. At least 13 police officers were injured as the violence claimed an estimated $65 million in property damage.”
“Mostly peaceful” is now “Quiet”, when 13 cops are “injured”, just injured.
Probably some scrapes and bruises, right, Big Media?
$65M property damage, like hurricane windage, is in the “Quiet” category.
I know. I’ve never been in a Gucci store, but have been in a Nike store and the only “food” I saw in there was like, a gumball machine. These people are insane. BUT...at least they have their “reparations” now and they are no longer “owed” anything!!
Hmm... What do any of those stores have to eat? You gonna eat a handbag or a shoe?
What good will it do to arrest these criminals if DA Kim Foxx lets them go?....................
Do insurance companies pay out for rioting damage? I thought I heard that they did not.
This is why some cities have “food deserts” where there is no place to buy groceries. Too much crime. Thin profit margins cannot sustain the businesses, so they leave. If you riot in the “nice” places, then Gucci will leave too.
So THIS is what you support, NBA? NHL? MLB?
I guess EBT and foodstamps and SNAP and Welfare aren’t enough..................
I suspect that the only thing that will stop the looting now is live ammo.
I heard Lightfoot’s speech on WLS, she blatantly lied about
the number of rioters, she described as “dozens” of looters.
“Coming soon to a city near you.”
Well, ones with a breathtakingly stupid mayor, anyway.
“When the Miracle Mile closes their retail and restaurants it will turn into a Ghetto with daily murders. This is what happens when voters vote for Democrats.”
So true.
I still know people in Chicago, and some of them have had it, and are leaving.
Great we can mark that off their list of what they want.
I know. But then the felons and heathens will start shooting back with all those illegal firearms they’ve bought on the black market.
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