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Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the violent riots this weekend mostly peaceful: "It's wrong to say that it's mayhem" 🤡
Not The Bee ^ | Apr 17, 2023 | Harris Rigby

Posted on 04/17/2023 12:45:36 PM PDT by Red Badger

Chicago's outgoing mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has decided to give us one last gem before she leaves the public spotlight (hopefully, for good).

After the violence in Chicago over the weekend, a reporter asked Lightfoot to comment on the riots that took place in the city.

Here's the thing, a vast majority of the young people that came downtown came downtown because it was great weather and an opportunity to enjoy the city. That's absolutely entirely appropriate. There are a few that came with different intentions and they have and they will be dealt with.

But I'm not going to use your language which I think is wrong to say that it's mayhem.

Yeah, a huge mob of violent kids that shot at least two people (several more were grazed), burned cars, destroyed businesses and buses, and attacked random passersby... in one of the biggest tourist spots of the prestigious downtown area!

[Warning: Language, Violence]

Caution GRAPHIC......

VIDEO AT LINK..................

That's the definition of "mostly peaceful"!

Definitely not "a state of rowdy disorder" or "random or deliberate violence or damage." We don't have a word like that in English!

Lightfoot wants to act like these violent kids were just like Ferris Bueller, who couldn't waste such a beautiful day by not exploring downtown Chicago.

In reality, Chicago is absolutely a war zone. There's a reason we call it Chiraq.

Here's a message to Lori from a great Chicagoan:

Go home, Lori. You're done.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brandonjohnson; chicago; crime; illinois; riot; violence
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1 posted on 04/17/2023 12:45:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

We need to apply a little Race-Norming here. In the interest of fairness.


2 posted on 04/17/2023 12:48:55 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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3 posted on 04/17/2023 12:49:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Red Badger

ok then, so the unrest was not officially violent.

OK, got it. Since it’s not “officially” violent, that means we can’t call it violence.


4 posted on 04/17/2023 12:50:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

Repulsively ugly, incredibly stupid, a lesbian, and a pathological liar—what a combination.


5 posted on 04/17/2023 12:51:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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6 posted on 04/17/2023 12:51:37 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Red Badger

Well, to be fair, for ‘her people’, it was mostly peaceful rioting.


7 posted on 04/17/2023 12:51:51 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Red Badger

SPJNK.


8 posted on 04/17/2023 12:55:17 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

she’s nucking futs.


9 posted on 04/17/2023 12:55:31 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Red Badger

No rational, decent person voluntarily lives, works or uses public schools in Chicago. Urban America is run by delusional, violent people who elect Democrats.


10 posted on 04/17/2023 12:55:31 PM PDT by allendale
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mostly peaceful

video Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts
https://rumble.com/v2ijgkc-chaotic-scene-unfolds-in-downtown-chicago-as-teenagers-vandalize-cars-and-g.html


11 posted on 04/17/2023 12:55:35 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Fungi

And her replacement is just as bad as she is!


12 posted on 04/17/2023 12:55:52 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: Red Badger

Two contributing factors:

1) lack of parental discipline and control
2) cell phones.


13 posted on 04/17/2023 1:00:42 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: Red Badger; ComputerGuy; bray; DoodleBob; Dilbert San Diego; z3n; Fungi; PROCON

I have theorized that because of the failure of the war on drugs, that in time, there will be regional warlords as civil authority breaks down. What appears to be happening in Chicago is that civil authority has now broken down, and the police have been sidelined. This is orchestrated, but by whom? I would point to BLM because they have been funded to the tune of BILLIONS by woke, or scared, businesses. Or, possibly the cartels have enough influence in Chicago now that they can fund such massive shows of violence. It still goes to demonstrate that people get what they vote for.


14 posted on 04/17/2023 1:01:12 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Red Badger

Allowing (that’s the right word) your people to run rampant like savages is what brought Chicago to this point. Demand that they act like civilized humans (work, responsible sex, no drugs, cut the booze and the smokes, learn to speak English, stop the rape, theft and violence).

But you won’t, and neither will your successor. Until that happens (we know it won’t) Chicago will be worse than Mogadishu.


15 posted on 04/17/2023 1:01:22 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...........


16 posted on 04/17/2023 1:11:08 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Red Badger

Probably means that her friends’ children were in on the violence.


17 posted on 04/17/2023 1:16:27 PM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: Red Badger

It was mayhem. It was Shitcago.


18 posted on 04/17/2023 1:28:44 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: z3n

Baghdad Bob was hilarious when it was Iraq. It’s a lot less funny when it’s US politicians constantly gaslighting us.


19 posted on 04/17/2023 1:35:54 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Democratic politicians are real lunatics. I pity the people in this country who can’t get rid of their Democratic officeholders.


20 posted on 04/17/2023 2:41:24 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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