United States Postal Service workers who deliver mail on Chicago&#8217;s south and west sides are threatening to halt service to select neighborhoods after a mail carrier was shot while on the job in the city&#8217;s Burnside neighborhood.
&#8220;The 24-year-old woman, who works as a United States Postal Service mail carrier, was shot at 91st Street and Ellis Avenue just after 11:35 a.m. while on the job,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/%2450k-reward-offered-in-chicago-postal-worker-shooting/6419481/">ABC 7 Chicago reported</a> earlier in September. &#8220;Chicago Fire Department officials said she was critically hurt after being shot multiple times.&#8221;
The mail carrier was not the shooting&#8217;s intended target, Chicago police officials said, but her southside route put her in the middle of a neighborhood wracked by gun violence. She is, ABC 7 added, the second mail carrier wounded by gunfire while walking her route: &#8220;In March, another Chicago letter carrier was shot while delivering mail in Brighton Park. He was caught in gang crossfire and told ABC7 he feels fortunate he was not more seriously injured from a shot to the back of his head.&#8221;
Another postal worker was reportedly shot with a paintball in the same Burnside neighborhood.
The United States Postal Service is offering a $50,000 reward for information on the shooting that leads to an arrest and reminded Chicago residents, in the same notice, that any attack on a mail carrier is a federal offense. The mail carrier, at least report, was still in serious condition at a local hospital.
On Friday, Chicago&#8217;s postal workers joined in a protest demanding that the city put a stop to the gun violence &#8212; and if they do not, Chicago&#8217;s postal workers may stop delivering mail to affected neighborhoods, <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/17/chicago-mail-carriers-threaten-to-stop-delivering-in-some-neighborhoods-following-shooting/">per CBS 2 Chicago</a>.
&#8220;Chicago postal workers, saying it is too dangerous to deliver the mail, are threatening to stop delivering in some neighborhoods one week after a mail carrier was shot on her route,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Postal workers and community organizers joined together for a prayer vigil Thursday near the scene of last week’s shooting.&#8221;
&#8220;Mack Julion with National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 11 said letter carriers should not walk their route if they feel unsafe,&#8221; WBBM added.
&#8220;Any letter carrier who does not feel safe in any one of these communities then they are not to deliver mail and customers have to pick up their mail,&#8221; Julion said. &#8220;We are not going to have another situation where the letter carrier is shot down.&#8221;
Chicago&#8217;s homicide rate has dropped since early August when federal officials, working with Operation Legend &#8212; a program designed to pair federal resources with crime-control units in 14 major cities &#8212; began working with Chicago&#8217;s Police Department, but violence continues at a rate much higher than in previous years.
This weekend, at least 30 people have been shot and 2 killed in a series of incidents on the city&#8217;s south and west sides, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-weekend-in-this/6461801/">Chicago&#8217;s ABC 7</a> reported Sunday. Those incidents, <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/19/4-men-injured-in-west-pullman-shooting/">CBS 2 Chicago adds</a>, include two &#8220;mass shootings&#8221; that took place within an hour of each other in the city&#8217;s West Pullman neighborhood. Four men were injured in those shootings.
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A Chicago felon who was being monitored electronically following charges of possessing a stolen firearm as a felon has now been charged with allegedly shooting five people over the weekend, two of whom died.
CWB Chicago <a href="https://cwbchicago.com/2020/09/more-men-charged-with-shooting-people-while-free-bail-for-gun-charges.html">reported</a> that a 39-year-old man was holding a party in his backyard on Saturday when he ordered everyone to leave around 2 a.m. He then started shooting, hitting five people, killing two. One partygoer with a concealed carry permit fired back, critically injuring the original shooter, before he was killed.
“[Chicago Police Department] records show [the gunman] was arrested in April 2019 for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen firearm. He went home on electronic monitoring to await trial,” CWB Chicago reported.
“Every weekend, we can bring forth an example of a person out of jail that should be in jail,” CPD Superintendent David Brown said at a press conference on Monday.
As CWB reported, the gunman &#8220;has five previous felony convictions, including two for illegal gun possession.”
The latest incident comes at the same time that Chicago State’s Attorney Kim Foxx claimed gun violence was increasing in the city, touting the city’s Gun Crimes Strategies Unit in a tweet on Monday.
“Our innovative Gun Crimes Strategies Unit puts prosecutors directly into police districts struggling with high rates of gun violence &#8211; where it&#8217;s decreasing at a higher rate than the city as a whole. These data-driven efforts show the reality of addressing both safety &amp; reform,” Foxx tweeted while linking to a tweet from the State’s Attorney’s Office that provided a study showing arrests are up in the districts with prosecutors. That <a href="https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/news/innovative-state-s-attorney-s-office-program-results-dramatic-increase-repeat-gun-charges">study</a>, from the University of Chicago Crime Lab analyzing CPD records, claimed that fatal and non-fatal shootings in the five districts with a GCSU prosecutor “decreased by 35% from 2016 to 2018, compared to 31% for districts without an embedded prosecutor.”
Rafael Mangual, a senior fellow in criminal justice at the Manhattan Institute, however, pointed out CPD statistics show “*both* homicides *and* shooting incidents are each up 52% YTD through 9/6. In terms of districts, *both* murders *and* shootings are up in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 24th, and 25th.”
GCSU prosecutors were placed in the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th, and 15th districts.
CWB Chicago also provided more examples of people returning to the streets thanks to Chicago’s affordable bail initiative only to commit violent crimes:
<blockquote>On February 16, prosecutors charged 18-year-old Dimitris Horns with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and possessing a gun with a defaced serial number after he allegedly ditched a handgun while running from police.
Judge David Navarro allowed Horns to go onto electronic monitoring by posting a $500 deposit bond, according to court records.
Then, on July 8, Horns repeatedly pistol-whipped a man and shot him in the leg during a robbery that netted Horns $130, according to allegations made in court.
Prosecutors charged him with aggravated discharge of a firearm, discharging a firearm causing bodily harm during a robbery, and other felonies. He was also charged with escaping electronic monitoring and held on a warrant for reckless discharge of a firearm as a juvenile, according to court records.
Horns’ case does not qualify for Foxx’s “repeat offender” tally because the second alleged crime occurred after June 30, the deadline for qualifying as a “reoffender” under her scenario.</blockquote>
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The Cook County Democratic Party took the unusual step of failing to recommend a sitting judge, Judge Michael Toomin, for re-election in November Monday &#8212; the same judge who appointed a special prosecutor to look into whether Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney Kim Foxx gave former &#8220;Empire&#8221; star Jussie Smollett special treatment.
Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County Board President, is head of the Cook County Democrats, and she&#8217;s both an ally of Foxx and an opponent of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who crushed her in last year&#8217;s mayoral election.
&#8220;The move set off a political firestorm,&#8221; <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-cook-county-democratic-party-judge-michael-toomin-smollett-foxx-20200914-psrdqrtf7vey3dozlbwkj3sj5q-story.html">the Chicago Tribune noted</a>, with Toomin, who appointed special prosecutor Dan Webb to look into the Smollett case, arguing that close-knit Chicago Democrats wanted him punished for questioning Foxx.
&#8220;Toomin, who is asking voters throughout the county to vote for retaining him, presided over an effort to name a special prosecutor in the case of the actor accused of staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago, where he used to live. Toomin said he believes the effort to bounce him from the bench stems from his decision to appoint Dan Webb to look into why the state’s attorney’s office dropped all 16 felony charges against Smollett last year,&#8221; the Tribune reported late Monday.
“What this appears to be is retaliation for some perceived failing of my service as a presiding judge, and retaliation means in this case a blatant rejection of the overruling conflict of judicial independence,” Toomin told the paper. “It just seems like it was preordained, that this was the way it was supposed to be, and they arrived with the result that they wanted to. And that’s wrong.&#8221;
Chicago Democrats, who generally endorse all sitting judges for automatic re-election, say they refused to endorse Toomin because of concerns about his record on &#8220;juvenile justice.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire reported last month, Special Prosecutor Dan Webb found that Foxx&#8217;s office had committed a number of &#8220;abuses of discretion&#8221; and suffered from &#8220;operation failures&#8221; but did not recommend any criminal charges against the Cook County prosecutor. Webb did, however, revive the case against Smollett, charging Smollett with six counts of lying to police in reference to an alleged racial and homophobic attack that took place in January of 2019.
Smollett is alleged to have orchestrated the attack himself, in concert with a pair of extras he met while working on &#8220;Empire.&#8221;
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot weighed in on the Cook County Democrats&#8217; decision not to endorse Toomin &#8220;retaliation.&#8221;
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Chicago police superintendent David Brown told reporters Monday that attacks on police officers are up &#8220;five times&#8221; over previous years amid a spike in shootings that has left the city reeling.
Last week, 72 people were shot and wounded in Chicago and 18 people were killed, a slight increase over 2019. Overall, though, the summer has been a deadly one for Chicago residents; murders and shootings are each up 52% over last year, according to the Chicago Police Department&#8217;s official statistics.
Brown noted that Chicago police officers are being targeted at a rate five times higher than in &#8220;any previous year&#8221; in the city.
&#8220;Dozens of Chicago police officers have been shot or shot at so far this year &#8212; including as recently as this weekend &#8212; when the Illinois city saw 35 shootings and at least 10 murders through Sunday,&#8221; Fox News reports.
&#8220;Of the 65 Chicago police officers who have been shot at, 10 have been struck, Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown said during a Monday morning press conference to launch a training program related to the department’s Neighborhood Policing Initiative,&#8221; the outlet continued.
“There is not a comparable year,” Brown said, noting the number of shootings directed at officers. “That is five times any previous year that anyone can recall in this city.”
The shootings include several high-profile incidents. Two officers were wounded in a late August shooting that stemmed from a traffic stop on the city&#8217;s west side, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/30/21407345/chicago-police-officers-suspect-shot-homan-square-west-side-polk-spaulding">according to the Chicago Sun-Times</a>, and one officer was shot in the leg while arresting a suspect on the city&#8217;s south side in early August, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-officer-shot-20200805-b3pqri3yanh37jbwueudwuemky-story.html">per the Tribune</a>.
Also in early August, three officers were shot when a suspect they had arrested produced a gun he had hidden on his person and engaged officers in a prolonged shootout, <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/04/chicago-police-officer-shot-in-chin-during-shootout-with-suspect-last-week-out-of-medically-induced-coma/">CBS Chicago noted</a>. One officer wounded in that attack had to be placed into a medically induced coma.
Over the weekend, a 49-year-old man shot at officers during an incident in the city&#8217;s South Pullman neighborhood, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/police-shooting-involved-chicago-department-south-pullman/6420352/">according to ABC 7 Chicago</a>. That man was arrested without incident and has reportedly been referred for psychiatric evaluation.
The incidents are even more significant when compared to officer-involved shootings that led to the death of a suspect. Although police shootings are now the primary focus of most national anti-violence campaigns, of the 2,870 people shot in the city of Chicago in 2020, only 12 of them &#8212; just 0.4% of the total &#8212; were shot by Chicago police officers.
The federal government&#8217;s Operation Legend has, according to Attorney General William Barr, been instrumental in cutting the murder rate in Chicago, and the local-federal partnership is getting guns off the street, according to CPD. Just last week, Chicago police arrested 59 people for violent crime and confiscated 87 guns.
The program is also, reportedly, protecting police officers by providing them with an inside track on organized crime in the city. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicagos-fbi-warns-cops-gang-cabal-may-be-targeting-police-officers-to-garner-national-media-attention">The Daily Wire reported last month</a>, the FBI recently warned Chicago cops that a &#8220;gang cabal&#8221; was planning to target police officers in order to command national headlines.
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In May, 17-year-old Sincere Williams allegedly stole 14 handguns from a Chicago gun store before he was quickly caught by police.
The owner of Suburban Sporting Goods Guns &amp; Ammo <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/11/melrose-park-gun-shop-owner-says-sincere-williams-burglarized-his-store-months-ago-should-not-have-been-on-street-when-walgreens-murder-happened/">told</a> CBS 2 that Williams attempted to steal 14 handguns from his store and should not have been on the streets when the teen allegedly killed Walgreens clerk Olga Marie Calderon.
Williams allegedly took a bus to Melrose Park in Chicago, where the gun store is located, in May armed with a hammer. The gun store owner said Williams smashed the front glass at least 20 times before breaking in and taking 14 handguns. He was quickly arrested and charged as a juvenile even though he was two months away from his 18th birthday.
“That’s a pretty heinous crime,” the gun store owner told CBS 2. “These weren’t hunting guns. He wasn’t stealing to feed his family. These were likely going somewhere very bad.”
“I was kind of enraged. It’s like, here’s this kid that broke into a gun store and stole several firearms,” the owner said of Williams being charged as a juvenile. “Just because he was caught, it doesn’t lessen the severity of the crime.”
Williams was released from police custody, but ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. In August, the gun shop owner told CBS 2, Williams allegedly violated the conditions of his electronic monitoring agreement. Yet for some reason, the court ordered the bracelet be removed and the Cook County State’s Attorney didn’t object, CBS 2 reported.
After the monitoring bracelet was removed, Williams allegedly robbed two Walgreens stores in Chicago. Four days after one of those robberies, he returned to the store and allegedly stabbed 32-year-old clerk Calderon 10 times. Calderon died from her injuries.
CBS 2 <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/09/suspect-prepared-to-kill-walgreens-clerk-in-wicker-park-prosecutors/">reported</a> Wednesday on court documents related to the stabbing. Surveillance footage purportedly shows Williams stab the victim and then “calmly” walk out of the store with the knife, through the parking lot, and out of view. Prosecutors in the case alleged Williams had a change of clothes stashed nearby that he changed into before walking home. Police and home cameras allegedly show him walking home in this different outfit and throwing his bloody clothes in some bushes near a house.
“You can clearly see the Defendant’s face and the blood stain on his pants,” court documents read, according to CBS 2.
Police found the knife they believe killed Calderon, and a second knife.
“Prosecutors say recovered gloves with cuts in them also helped identify Williams. Officers said when they arrested him he had a cut on his hand. His mother told police she took him to the hospital to get stitches after the murder. She claims her son told her he cut his hand on a fence,” CBS 2 reported. “Officers also executed a search warrant of Williams’ residence where they say they found a pair of shoes matching those worn in the videos and a shoe box containing packaging for a knife of the same brand and model number as the knife found when officers canvassed the area of the Walgreens.”
Williams’ public defender said in court that his client suffers from schizophrenia. Williams’ bail has been denied.
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Former &#8220;Empire&#8221; star Jussie Smollett insists, in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-maintains-innocence">a new Instagram interview with CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill</a>, that he was the victim of a &#8220;set up” and that he has two new witnesses to prove that he did not stage a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January of last year. He claims that he was, in fact, accosted by two white men wearing &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; caps.
Smollett told Hill, in one of the first interviews he&#8217;s given since a special prosecutor re-charged Smollett with several counts of lying to Chicago police in the hours following the alleged attack, that he is the &#8220;only human being&#8221; involved in the incident &#8220;who has not changed his story one time&#8221; and says he believes a &#8220;narrative&#8221; was created to sideline his claims of discrimination and harassment.
“It was set up to make it seem like I was lying about something or everything,&#8221; Smollett says.
Smollett famously claims to have been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack that took place in the early hours of January 29, 2019, as the city was in the midst of a &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; that drove temperatures well below zero. Smollett maintains that two white men jumped him outside of his downtown Chicago apartment, screamed slurs at him, beat him, threw a noose around his neck, doused him with an unidentified liquid he believed to be bleach, and then took off, yelling that &#8220;This is MAGA Country,&#8221; apparently referring to the city of Chicago.
After a two-week investigation, Chicago police said they suspected Smollett of orchestrating the attack with the help of twin brothers whom he met when they served as extras on his hit show, &#8220;Empire.&#8221; CPD claimed Smollett had planned the attack with the two men, who then secured all of the necessary items for the incident and carried out the assault with Smollett&#8217;s direction.
Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, charges that were later dropped in a suspicious, sweetheart plea deal made with the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s office, allowing Smollett to escape trial in return for several hours of community service and $10,000. After an extensive investigation, a special prosecutor, who was assigned to review prosecutors&#8217; decision to release Smollett, found that the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney had, indeed, inked a special deal with the actor and revived six counts of the original indictment.
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/jussie-smollett-doubles-down-on-innocence-claims-video-doctored-2-witnesses/">According to TMZ</a>, Smollett, who says he did not play a part in his own alleged attack, has his own theory of how he eventually became the center of the police investigation into the matter.
&#8220;Smollett blasts police for focusing on winning the case instead of trying to solve it based on truth, and hints there may be a conspiracy against him because of that,&#8221; the outlet says. &#8220;As he puts it &#8212; law enforcement is willing to throw people under the bus, get people to lie, and switch the narrative based on their agenda.&#8221; Smollett does not specify what the Chicago Police Department&#8217;s &#8220;agenda&#8221; was, however, in accusing him of orchestrating a hoax attack. He does allude to a potential financial incentive.
&#8220;As for the lack of video evidence of Jussie being attacked &#8230; he claims it&#8217;s out there,&#8221; TMZ adds. &#8220;He also says there are 2 witnesses who can corroborate his story of seeing 2 white men &#8212; one of them carrying a rope &#8212; before he was attacked.&#8221;
“These are the things that people don’t necessarily know because the lies and the things that were not true were yelled from the rooftop,” Smollett told Hill. “There is a tape. There is something, but of course, it cuts off right before it happens.”
Smollett also claims that the twin brothers whom police believe helped him carry out the assault changed their story under pressure from CPD.
“There would be no reason for me to do something like this,” Smollet said. “There would be no reason for me to do something foolish and I do think that if you look at all of the things that were happening for me, and then for all of the opportunities and all of the money&#8230;Whatever, that I have lost at this point, if in fact what they said was true, the smart thing to do would be to admit that. At least there would be a place to work back from. This is bulls**t. It’s bulls**t.”
Smollett, of course, could produce those two new witnesses and demonstrate potential evidence tampering in his new trial, set to take place this summer but postponed because of coronavirus-related restrictions. He did tell Hill that he believes he will have to face his day in court.
“They won’t let this go,” Smollett said. “There is an example being made, and the sad part is that there is an example being made of someone that did not do what they’re being accused of.”
Hill, of course, is a controversial figure in his own right. He was let go from CNN after making anti-Semitic comments in a speech to the United Nations, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-drops-marc-lamont-hill-anti-israel-remarks">according to Fox News</a>.
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Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday that Operation Legend &#8212; a Department of Justice program designed to supplement major city police departments with federal agents and resources amid an unprecedented national crime wave &#8212; has cut the Chicago murder rate &#8220;roughly in half&#8221; since launch and has &#8220;reversed&#8221; a surge of violence that was leaving dozens killed.
Barr told reporters, at a press conference held in Chicago, that Operation Legend has led to 500 individual arrests and has charged 124 people who federal crimes, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-murder-rate-cut-roughly-in-half-since-before-operation-legend-barr">according to Fox News</a>. Those charges range from firearms and narcotics trafficking to bank fraud.
&#8220;Throughout the country, more than 2500 people have been arrested and more than 600 are facing federal charges as part of the operation, an ongoing government effort to combat surging crime in parts of the country,&#8221; the outlet continued, citing official numbers announced Wednesday.
Operation Legend launched in Chicago in early July, after the city experienced a shocking spike in shootings and homicides following the release of coronavirus-related lockdowns. Gang violence on the city&#8217;s south and west sides also spiked, leaving a number of minors &#8212; including several children five years of age and younger &#8212; dead or severely injured.
The program, which now operates in more than a dozen cities, pairs agents and resources from the FBI, U.S. Marshals, ATF, and DEA with major city police department investigators to help handle organized crime and, specifically, widespread gun violence and illegal weapons and narcotics trafficking.
In Chicago alone, 400 federal agents are assigned to the Operation Legend task force, though around 200 of those agents were already working in the city prior to the program&#8217;s launch. The city also received around $9 million in federal funds to boost community-oriented policing projects and around $3.5 million to support anti-crime operations already in existence, <a href="https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/attorney-general-william-barr-speaks-chicago-wednesday">per local media</a>.
&#8220;The results of those actions speak for themselves: over the first five weeks of Operation Legend in Chicago, murders dropped by 50% over the previous five weeks. August ultimately saw a 45% decrease in murders compared to July, and a 35% decrease compared to June,&#8221; Barr noted.
The Justice Department&#8217;s Twitter account noted the statistic in a bar graph:
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Gun violence in Chicago is still a major problem. Despite Operation Legend&#8217;s achievements, the city&#8217;s August murder rate was the highest since 2016 and is only lower in comparison to June&#8217;s and July&#8217;s murder rates, which set city records. So far this summer, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Chicago has seen 342 people killed in gun violence and 1,607 wounded. That&#8217;s up significantly from 2019 when 172 people were killed over the summer and 890 wounded.
Chicago&#8217;s Mayor Lori Lightfoot initially declined President Donald Trump&#8217;s offer of federal assistance in handling the city&#8217;s crime spike but later agreed to help on the condition that it did not look like federal intervention in Portland, Oregon, where the Department of Justice sent an elite, militarized unit from Customs and Border Protection to guard federal property against rioters.
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AG Barr: Operation Legend Cut Chicago Murder Rate ‘Roughly In Half’ ‘Reversed’ Surge In Violence

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Chicago police, in an effort to catch looters and rioters who escaped justice back in May (and, in some cases, again in August) have released a surveillance video showing a group of individuals ransacking a store on the city&#8217;s west side.
The video, which was shot over the course of 25 minutes, shows a group of looters crowding into what appears to be a retail store for cell phone equipment, jostling shoulder to shoulder to pull merchandise off the shelves, break display cases, and abscond with thousands of dollars in communications equipment.
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The store was looted back in May, in an initial round of riots that targeted stores in the city&#8217;s downtown and on the city&#8217;s south and west sides. Those incidents, which closely followed protests demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, went on for nearly a week before Chicago police &#8212; and several roving bands of private citizens &#8212; were able to get the unrest under control.
The second round of looting in August targeted the city&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent Mile&#8221; shopping district, ostensibly in response to a police-involved shooting in the city&#8217;s Englewood neighborhood, though looters arrested during the melee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chicago-looters-were-mix-of-college-students-out-of-work-parents-and-convicted-felons-not-neighborhood-activists">as The Daily Wire reported</a> at the time, said they were unaware of the connection. Activists, connected to Chicago&#8217;s official Black Lives Matter organization later defended the looting as &#8220;reparations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-reparations-blm-chicago-defends-looting-holds-rally-for-protesters-arrested-in-sundays-riots">per a Daily Wire report</a>.
In this case, police say they&#8217;re looking for the public&#8217;s assistance in identifying the looters, whose faces are clearly visible in the surveillance video.
&#8220;The aftermath of the looting spree saw the store looking like a shell of itself. The floor was littered with items and packaging as well as shattered cases that previously had protected the store&#8217;s merchandise. Walls that held up goods and electronics were stripped bare, with only a few items remaining,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-looting-suspects-surveillance-video-store">Fox News reported</a>. &#8220;Police said they&#8217;re seeking the public&#8217;s help in identifying those involved. They released still photos of 23 people suspected of committing a burglary during the incident.&#8221;
Chicago police have been regularly releasing surveillance video of looters and rioters and the effort has resulted in several arrests. Seven people were arrested and several thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise was recovered following the release of surveillance video taken from a jewelry store during August&#8217;s melee, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-looting-arrests-update-police/6374205/">according to ABC 7 Chicago</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-shouts-i-cant-breathe-as-she-loots-luxury-clothing-store-in-chicago">another looter was arrested</a> after CPD released a video, filmed by the alleged perpetrator for social media, showing the woman looting an electronics store while yelling &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe!&#8221; an apparent reference to Floyd&#8217;s death.
The two looting sprees cost the city of Chicago nearly $100 million, putting the city in &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; financial straits, according to mayor Lori Lightfoot, who suggested Monday that the city may need to raise property taxes to offset the cost of rebuilding the city following riots and the coronavirus pandemic.
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George Floyd Protests And Riots In Chicago

WATCH: Chicago Police Release Wild Video Of Looters Ransacking Store On City’s West Side

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Chicago&#8217;s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, announced Tuesday that the city is facing a historic $1.2 billion budget shortfall for the fiscal year 2021, following what the mayor called a &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; economic collapse caused by the coronavirus pandemic and by widespread rioting and looting that did an estimated $60 million in physical damage to the city&#8217;s downtown and untold damage to its tourism industry.
&#8220;Saying Chicago faces &#8216;a crisis unlike anything we have experienced in our lifetimes,&#8217; Mayor Lori Lightfoot painted a grave financial picture for the city on Monday, detailing a projected $1.2 billion budget shortfall in the 2021 fiscal year,&#8221; Chicago&#8217;s public broadcasting station, WTTW reported.
&#8220;On top of that colossal shortfall, the city’s financial picture worsened significantly during the past three months because of an &#8216;economic catastrophe caused by the coronavirus pandemic,&#8217;” Lightfoot said according to the outlet. &#8220;The city’s budget for the current fiscal year is now $799 million in the red, she said.&#8221;
Lightfoot added that &#8220;all options are on the table,” though she refused to get into specifics. In the past, the city has proposed a computer lease tax, a streaming services tax, and a higher restaurant and entertainment tax as stopgap measures for budget shortfalls. This shortfall, though, is so unprecedented, the city is likely to consider more extreme measures, like a property tax hike.
“The reality is that life will be different for the foreseeable future, impacting how services are provided and how departments are structured, and we must adjust to meet that reality,” Lightfoot said. “Some painful choices will need to be made, including the likely necessity of personnel reductions.”
Lightfoot is also pressing for a federal bailout for Chicago and, on a larger scale, Illinois, as part of the fourth coronavirus relief package being discussed now in Congress. Democrats passed bailouts for cities and states impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and did not specify that the economic damage being addressed had to be the direct result of the pandemic. Republicans, however, have said there will be no bailout for cities and states &#8212; especially those like Chicago and Illinois, whose budget woes long predate coronavirus.
Chicago did get an estimated  $470 million in federal funding from the third, bipartisan coronavirus relief bill, the CARES Act, passed back in early May.
The mayor is likely addressing the city&#8217;s budget woes now because information came to light, late last week, indicating that Chicago&#8217;s city government, which had pledged $10 million in grants to help address damage to private business from the two looting campaigns in June and August, doled out just over $200,000 to help city residents rebuild, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-looting-together-now-fund-lightfoot-20200824-ptikhm3ynzc5hafq7psw6l653a-story.html">per the Chicago Tribune</a>.
Damages from just August&#8217;s riots and looting are estimated at around $60 million, and that&#8217;s without considering economic losses. Several major retail chains, including Macy&#8217;s, which anchors the city&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent Mile&#8221; shopping district, are now considering dropping their leases and moving their flagship stores outside of the city.
The coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/5/18/21262664/coronavirus-stay-home-shutdown-chicago-economy-cost">the Chicago Sun-Times reports</a>, likely cost the city &#8220;in excess of $500 million.&#8221;
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Chicago Faces Record $1.2 Billion Budget Shortfall Following ‘Catastrophic’ Economic Collapse, Riots, And Violence

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Talk about a &#8220;Dead Pool.&#8221;
A bar on Long Island, NY,  has set up a betting pool &#8212; similar to the kind used for the Super Bowl &#8212; in which patrons pick the number of shootings that will occur in Chicago and New York City over the three-day Labor Day weekend.
Beneath the scoreboard, it says &#8220;Numbers are up early. Let the shooting sprees begin!&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/li-bar-is-taking-bets-on-which-city-will-have-more-shootings-over-labor-day-weekend/2595507/">reports</a> NBC-4 in New York.
An Instagram post from last week showed the purchased boxes of bets, with a photo listing the rules of the gambling pool and setting out that the official count of deaths and shootings will be obtained from the New York Times and The Chicago Tribune, MSNBC <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/patchogue-bar-spurs-controversy-with-shooting-death-gambling-pool/ar-BB18yMlu">reported</a>.
The bar in Patchogue, called The Cliffton, posted the game on Facebook, which drew criticism.
Mayor Paul Pontieri called the betting pool &#8220;foolish at best and disgusting at its worst because it isn&#8217;t what we are about&#8230;It&#8217;s not going to be tolerated and it shouldn&#8217;t be tolerated.&#8221;
Pontieri urged police and the state liquor authority to investigate because gambling at the bar is illegal.
The Long Island Chapter of the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence also asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to probe the matter. “This is the kind of place that needs to be boycotted,” said the gun-control advocacy group.
The betting pool drew other criticism. &#8220;Racist and transphobic. Absolutely disgusting place and staff who represent the worst type of people that LI has to offer,&#8221; one person wrote on Facebook.
The bar courted controversy last year after it published a social media post that included a transphobic joke about two bar patrons and customers complained.
&#8220;Why does this not surprise me from a bar that waves a Trump 2020 flag outside of it out in Patchogue. They&#8217;re running a gambling pool for the amount of shooting deaths labor day weekend comparing NY and Chicago. They&#8217;re even cutting money off the top for themselves,&#8221; wrote another person.
Ten people were killed and 45 more, including two Chicago police officers and a 15-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings across Chicago over the past weekend.
Chicago officials raised bridges and shut down some train and bus service last month after a night of rioting and looting caused widespread damage in the city’s downtown and along the Magnificent Mile shopping district.
Rioters and looters rampaged through Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping district, sparked by a shooting by a police officer hours earlier that left a young man wounded. Social media exploded with videos showing hundreds of people looting stores such as Apple, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Best Buy, Coach, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton. In some videos, gunfire can be heard.
&#8220;Chicago had 105 murders in July, more than double the 44 in July 2019, and 584 shooting victims is also up dramatically from the same period last year, with 308 reported in July 2019. July was the most violent month in 28 years, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-weekend-shooting-20200803-xkevk64unvdijfzboyyn4vowly-story.html">according</a> to the Chicago Tribune.
Things are just as bad in New York City. There was a 177% increase year-over-year in the number of shooting incidents across the city in July, with 244 in total, amny.com <a href="https://www.amny.com/police-fire/crime-stats-show-that-shootings-are-skyrocketing-compared-to-july-last-year/">reported</a>. &#8220;In July 2019, there were only 88 shootings over the course of the month. The number of shootings increased by 72% year-to-date, with 450 by July 2019 to 772 by July 2020.&#8221;
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Police Shooting Leads To Widespread Looting And Violence In Chicago

Bar Taking Bets On Whether NYC Or Chicago Will Have More Violent Labor Day

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Chicago saw a marked decrease in the number of shootings and homicides in August, according to numbers released by the Chicago Police Department Tuesday, marking the first month since the end of the coronavirus-related lockdown where gun violence has actually ticked down.
A release, issued to local media Tuesday morning, noted that “the Chicago Police Department saw a significant reduction in overall crime compared to the summer months before, including decreases in murders and shootings in some of Chicago’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.”
&#8220;Following increased flexibility and focus in staffing from two new citywide teams and thanks to ongoing partnerships with street outreach organizations, community-based organizations and community leaders, the month of August saw a 45% decrease in murders compared to the previous month, and a 35% decrease compared to the month of June,&#8221; the CPD said in the report.
&#8220;In fact,&#8221; it continued, &#8220;this month saw the lowest number of murders since April. Additionally, the number of shooting victims has dropped by 22% this month compared to July, and shooting incidents have declined by 15% compared to the previous month.&#8221;
The numbers, though, are still staggering, especially in comparison to 2019. <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/over-500-shot-in-chicago-in-august;-police-say-crime-is-still-down/6398276/">According to Chicago&#8217;s ABC affiliate</a>, &#8220;503 people were shot, 63 fatally in August 2020 compared to 268 shot, 49 fatally in August of 2019.&#8221;
Overall, murders are actually up 50% compared to last year. Overall crime numbers, though, the police department reports, are down and continue to trend downward. Even as the city has seen a spike in gun violence, its seen fewer other crimes &#8212; and that number stays low even when Chicago&#8217;s recent spate of looting is taken into consideration.
The city has seen &#8220;double-digit reductions in criminal complaints for theft and criminal sexual assault. Additionally, burglary, robbery, theft, and overall crime figures in Chicago remain at 20-year lows, looking at year-to-date figures,&#8221; ABC 7 Chicago reports.
Chicago&#8217;s police superintendent David Brown was quick to credit the police department for the declining figures, noting that CPD has changed its policing strategy significantly in recent weeks, following the deaths of several young children caught up in the crossfire between rival gangs battling on the city&#8217;s south and west sides.
&#8220;This has been an unprecedented year in policing, as coronavirus, civil unrest and violence have all converged in Chicago and in cities throughout the country,&#8221; Brown said at a press conference Tuesday. &#8220;Thanks to not only the launch of our two citywide teams but also our ongoing partnerships with street outreach and community-based organizations, we have seen a substantial decrease in violent crime in August compared to the previous summer months.&#8221;
Although Brown did not mention it, Operation Legend &#8212; a Trump administration program designed to pair federal officials from several key agencies, including the FBI, ATF, and DEA, with local investigators to help anticipate and quell violent action before it begins and to better contain organized criminal enterprises &#8212; is likely to have had an effect on the city&#8217;s crime rate.
A &#8220;<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/operation-legend-chicago-crime-police-fbi/6378978/">progress report&#8221; on Operation Legend</a>, issued last week, shows the program made at least 61 arrests in Chicago. Most of the individuals detained are facing charges of narcotics trafficking, weapons trafficking, and illegal gun possession.
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Chicago Shootings, Homicides DROP Nearly 50% In August As City Changes Policing Strategy, Welcomes Feds

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FBI officials in Chicago have warned officers of the Chicago Police Department that they be under attack from a &#8220;cabal&#8221; of three dozen street gangs who have pledged to shoot cops on sight if they see a CPD officer with a gun drawn.
<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/fbi-chicago-warns-that-gang-cabal-may-be-targeting-police-officers-/6397730/">Chicago&#8217;s ABC affiliate reports</a> that, according to a memo that went out from the FBI&#8217;s Chicago office to members of the CPD, &#8220;three dozen cold-blooded street gangs&#8221; &#8220;have formed a pact to &#8216;shoot on-site any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public,'&#8221;
&#8220;The &#8216;situational information report&#8217; from FBI officials in Chicago dated August 26, 2020, states &#8216;members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties. The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent &#8216;shoot on-site&#8217; of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.'&#8221;
The FBI does warn that the &#8220;Potential Activity Alert&#8221; is the result of a discussion with &#8220;a contact whose reporting is limited and whose reliability cannot be determined.&#8221;
Chicago&#8217;s police superintendent, David Brown, told ABC Chicago that the department is taking the threat seriously, regardless, especially after a violent weekend that saw two police officers shot during what should have been a routine traffic stop.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s bigger than a suggestion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think 51 officers being shot at or shot in one year, I think that quadruples any previous year in Chicago&#8217;s history. So I think it&#8217;s more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether they&#8217;re associated with a gang or not we&#8217;ve seen increasing violence throughout,&#8221; he continued, <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-top-cop-says-its-more-than-a-suggestion-that-police-are-being-targeted/2331650/">per NBC Chicago</a>, in a press conference addressing the weekend violence. &#8220;Shooting babies and kids with impunity with no regard for innocent bystanders. So I wouldn&#8217;t say that it&#8217;s associated with a specific, whether it&#8217;s a gang or culture, I think overall there&#8217;s this sense of lawlessness.&#8221;
&#8220;We just can&#8217;t let our guard down for a moment,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;Our strategy is to be prepared for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.&#8221;
In the last month alone, several Chicago police officers have been wounded on the job. In early August, one Chicago police officer was left in critical condition after a shootout with a carjacking suspect on the city&#8217;s west side, according to <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/04/chicago-police-officer-shot-in-chin-during-shootout-with-suspect-last-week-out-of-medically-induced-coma/">CBS Chicago</a>.
Over the weekend, officers responding to a traffic stop on the city&#8217;s west side &#8220;broke out the window&#8221; of the vehicle after spotting a gun on the floor of the car&#8217;s back seat, and after the driver refused to exit the vehicle at the officers&#8217; command. The suspect then opened fire, shooting one officer &#8221; in the shoulder and the other officer in the side,&#8221; per a <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-chicago-police-officers-shot/2331177/">separate NBC Chicago report</a>. A third officer, who happened to be on the scene, shot the suspect.
The officers were two of 55 people shot over the weekend in Chicago. Ten people were killed.
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Chicago’s FBI Warns Cops ‘Gang Cabal’ May Be Targeting Police Officers To ‘Garner National Media Attention’

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Chicago Teachers Union Local 1, the primary collective bargaining body for Chicago&#8217;s teachers, has been an integral part of &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; protests in Chicago, but on Thursday, CTU took their interest in social change national, tweeting out support for a threatening &#8220;guillotine protest&#8221; that took place in front of Jeff Bezos&#8217; house, demanding a $30 minimum wage or threatening Bezos with violence.
&#8220;More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside Jeff Bezos&#8217; Washington, DC, mansion on Thursday and constructed a guillotine outside his front door to protest Amazon workers&#8217; wages,&#8221; Business Insider reported Thursday. &#8220;The protest came the day after Bezos&#8217; net worth surpassed $200 billion, making him the richest person in history, according to Forbes. His wealth has grown by about $85 billion since January, boosted by Amazon&#8217;s soaring revenue amid the COVID-19 pandemic.&#8221;
The protesters, who told reporters they were agitating for a $30 minimum wage &#8212; &#8220;Give a good reason why we don&#8217;t deserve a $30 minimum wage when this man makes $4,000 a second,&#8221; they said &#8212; did note that the guillotine they constructed was &#8220;not functional,&#8221; but the message was clear, regardless.
Washington Examiner reporter Nic Rowan captured the guillotine in action.
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Protesters build a guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos’s house. Yesterday the Amazon billionaire was reported to become the first man worth $200 billion. <a href="https://t.co/tY1wb0F1uj">pic.twitter.com/tY1wb0F1uj</a>
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Guillotines have become a staple of recent protests &#8212; a clear threat of oncoming, bloody revolution (though protesters do seem to ignore that French Revolution&#8217;s founders were the apparatus&#8217;s final victims) &#8212; and have appeared at a number of demonstrations nationwide, including one that took place outside the White House Thursday night, during President Donald Trump&#8217;s RNC speech.
The Chicago Teachers Union <a href="https://twitter.com/CTULocal1/status/1299101069163859968">tweeted out its approval</a> of the protest: &#8220;We are completely frightened by, completely impressed by and completely in support of wherever this is headed. #solidarity&#8221;
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The CTU is, of course, no stranger to radical policies. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-unions-back-safe-schools-plan-that-demands-police-free-schools-an-end-to-private-education">The Daily Wire reported</a> back in July, the Chicago Teachers Union was one of a handful of national teachers unions that signed on to a radical &#8220;safe schools&#8221; plan that outlined demands that had to be met before public school teachers would return to the classroom amid the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;The group [of unions], under the banner of the Journeys for Justice Alliance, claims that no return to classrooms will be truly &#8216;healthy&#8217; until those same schools are also &#8216;equitable,'&#8221; the Daily Wire reported, noting that CTU, among others, demanded not just PPE and regular sanitization of classroom facilities, but “police-free schools,&#8221; handouts funded by a tax on &#8220;Wall Street,&#8221; a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, and a complete “moratorium on charter and voucher programs and standardized testing&#8221; &#8212; an end to private education.
More recently, CTU has been agitating for fully online learning for the 2020-2021 school year and hazard pay, even for teachers who are returning to work in otherwise empty school buildings, <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/25/remote-learning-concerns-growing-for-chicago-public-schools/">according to Chicago&#8217;s CBS affiliate</a>.
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Chicago Teachers Union Tweets Out Praise For Guillotine Protest: ‘Completely In Support Of Wherever This Is Headed’

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Chicago Teachers Union Local 1, the primary collective bargaining body for Chicago&#039;s teachers, has been an integral part of &quot;Black Lives Matter&quot; protests

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Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden faced backlash Thursday night on social media over a misleading attack that he made on President Donald Trump with regard to violence that has plagued Democrat-controlled cities in recent months.
Biden&#8217;s attack, featured in a tweet, came in response to Trump hammering him during the Republican National Convention on the issue of violence in the inner cities.
&#8220;We must never allow mob rule, we can never allow mob rule,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;In the strongest possible terms, the Republican Party condemns the rioting, looting, arson, and violence we have seen in Democrat run cities all, like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, and New York, and many others Democrat-run. There is violence and danger in the streets of many Democrat-run cities throughout America.&#8221;
&#8220;This problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Just call; we are ready to go in. We will take care of your problem in a matter of hours. Just call. We have to wait for the call. It&#8217;s too bad we have to, but we have to wait for the call. We must always have law and order.&#8221;
&#8220;During their convention, Joe Biden and his supporters remained completely silent about the rioters and criminals spreading mayhem in Democrat-run cities,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They never even mentioned it during their entire convention. Never once mentioned. Now, they are starting to mention it because their poll numbers are going down like a rock in water. It is too late, Joe. In the face of left-wing anarchy and mayhem in Minneapolis, Chicago, and other cities, Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign did not condemn it. They donated to it. At least 13 members of Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign staff donated to a fund to bailout vandals, arsonists, and anarchists, looters, and rioters from jail.&#8221;
&#8220;If the Democrat Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters, and flag burners, that is up to them,&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;But I as your president will not be part of it. The Republican Party will remain the voice of the patriotic heroes who keep America safe and salute the American flag.&#8221;
Biden responded to Trump&#8217;s remarks by tweeting: &#8220;Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s attack is highly misleading because he failed to mention that the Trump administration has offered and urged Democrat-controlled cities to take federal assistance to end the violence and that the Democrats in those cities have largely opposed the offer, have resisted when federal agents were sent in, or have balked at the idea in public. A few examples include: <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-bans-police-from-working-with-federal-law-enforcement-targeting-journalists-and-legal-observers-during-protests.html">Portland</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-governor-tony-evers-rejected-hundreds-of-national-guard-troops-police-needed-before-shootings-white-house">Kenosha</a>, <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/20/chicago-violence-weekend-mayor-trump/112316842/">Chicago</a>, and <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/07/23/no-federal-troops-in-new-york">New York.</a>
At one point in his speech, Trump referenced that the top-10 most violent cities in the U.S. are run by Democrats, which is true. In fact, Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-analysis-tries-to-debunk-trump-claim-on-violent-democrat-cities-it-proves-him-right">control</a> 17 out of the top 20 most violent cities, while Republicans only control one.
Republican strategist Andy Surabian responded: &#8220;Yes, Trump is to be blamed for what your supporters are doing in the cities controlled by the political party that you lead.&#8221;
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Yes, Trump is to be blamed for what your supporters are doing in the cities controlled by the political party that you lead. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/Nd92pwJatL">https://t.co/Nd92pwJatL</a>
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Senior RealClearInvestigations writer Mark Hemingway tweeted: &#8220;This is a sorry line of attack, given who&#8217;s been actually accountable for maintaining law and order. Do you want the federal government being responsible for maintaining law and order on every city street? Would Biden accept that responsibility? Because that&#8217;s actual fascism.&#8221;
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This is a sorry line of attack, given who&#39;s been actually accountable for maintaining law and order. Do you want the federal government being responsible for maintaining law and order on every city street? Would Biden accept that responsibility? Because that&#39;s actual fascism. <a href="https://t.co/4lGXp99u1l">https://t.co/4lGXp99u1l</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1299187242838249473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Actor Adam Baldwin tweeted: &#8220;So, he should’ve sent in the Marines?&#8221;
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So, he should’ve sent in the Marines?<a href="https://t.co/xqErrmwNqT">https://t.co/xqErrmwNqT</a>
&mdash; Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1299197697585369089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Federalist writer Chad Felix Greene tweeted: &#8220;So now the Democrats want Trump to send in the military to stop the violence?&#8221;
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So now the Democrats want Trump to send in the military to stop the violence? <a href="https://t.co/OOTtJC2lEk">https://t.co/OOTtJC2lEk</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1299187107479662592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Digital strategist Jason Howerton tweeted: &#8220;Joe Biden thinks his voters are so stupid and ignorant that they don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s Democratic leaders in Democratic cities that have allowed rioting and violence to go on unchallenged. This is not a winning strategy.&#8221;
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Joe Biden thinks his voters are so stupid and ignorant that they don&#39;t realize it&#39;s Democratic leaders in Democratic cities that have allowed rioting and violence to go on unchallenged.
This is not a winning strategy. <a href="https://t.co/Dw6QlqMMos">https://t.co/Dw6QlqMMos</a>
&mdash; Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1299188732260765698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto tweeted: &#8220;I am given to understand that things have been mostly peaceful.&#8221;
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I am given to understand that things have been mostly peaceful. <a href="https://t.co/nzU1BBgweJ">https://t.co/nzU1BBgweJ</a>
&mdash; James Taranto (@jamestaranto) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/1299195239668887552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Biden Faces Backlash For Misleading Attack On Trump Regarding Violence In Democrat Cities

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Chicago community activists held their own rally Sunday, in contrast to several Chicago Black Lives Matter-sponsored events, demanding that Illinois governor ignore inaction on the part of Chicago&#8217;s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and send in Illinois National Guard troops to help control the city&#8217;s spiking violence.
Activists, largely from Hispanic neighborhoods on the city&#8217;s west side, &#8220;pointed to the city’s surging summer gun violence as they urged both members of the City Council and Congress to rally behind police officers they claim have been outnumbered and attacked at recent protests,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/23/21398141/activists-pritzker-national-guard-chicago-lightfoot-control">Chicago Sun-Times</a>.
Like residents of Englewood &#8212; who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-chicago-residents-interrupt-blm-rally-to-support-looters-demand-blm-leavea">confronted invading protesters</a> from Chicago&#8217;s official branch of Black Lives Matter earlier this month after they spoke out in support of rioters and looters who destroyed Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent Mile&#8221; shopping district &#8212; residents of Little Village say they want a voice in how the city handles ongoing violence, and they support greater involvement from state law enforcement agencies.
“This mayor, Lori Lightfoot, she can’t control the city. It’s out of hand,” Raul Montes Jr., community activist and former city council candidate said in a press conference Sunday. “We need the National Guard to help out the police.”
Another activist, Frank Coconate, pointed out that police have been targeted and abused by protesters who are, ostensibly, agitating for peaceful solutions to ongoing issues of race and brutality, and it is having an impact on Chicago residents, who now fear for their own safety.
“These police are on their own out there, and it’s despicable what’s going on in this city. We’re a laughingstock in the nation right now,&#8221; Coconate said.
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The group&#8217;s protest follows a contentious Chicago City Council meeting from Friday, where several of Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot&#8217;s longtime foes confronted her about the possibility of allowing the National Guard to assist the Chicago Police Department.
That meeting quickly became a confrontation, with several of the city&#8217;s alderman voting to continue debate on a possible state-involved public safety plan in defiance of City Hall. A measure that would have demanded the mayor ask for the governor&#8217;s help, however, was ultimately voted down by a two-to-one margin, and the issue was referred to the city&#8217;s public service committee, which does not meet against until after Labor Day.
Chicago&#8217;s government has largely resisted the assistance of other agencies, though it is one of the key cities involved in Operation Legend, a United States Department of Justice initiative designed to help major American cities combat a nationwide uptick in violence following the coronavirus-related lockdowns. Chicago is also the subject of long-term investigations from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agency, as well as the Drug Enforcement Agency, both of which have recently yielded several arrests.
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WATCH: Chicago Community Activists Demand National Guard: ‘It’s Out Of Hand’

Chicago community activists held their own rally Sunday, in contrast to several Chicago Black Lives Matter-sponsored events, demanding that Illinois

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Chicago&#8217;s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and its police superintendent, David Brown, weighed in on the police-involved shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that sparked significant unrest overnight, noting that they are &#8220;monitoring&#8221; the situation and urging &#8220;civil and criminal authorities&#8221; in Kenosha to investigate the incident.
Meanwhile, Chicago suffered 66 individual shootings over the weekend, from Friday until Sunday evening &#8212; violence that took the lives of at least five people, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/23/21396881/chicago-weekend-shootings-homicide-gun-violence-roundup-august-21-24">per the Chicago Sun-Times</a>.
“What happens in Wisconsin or any other city in our country does affect all of us,” Brown said Monday. “And yes, we are monitoring that situation. All of our deployment strategies are being practiced and we are obviously adjusting based on the information coming from, not only what happened in Wisconsin, but what happens here in Chicago.”
The concern is, of course, that violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which is just a little more than an hour away from downtown Chicago and accessible by the city&#8217;s light rail system, could spread to the Illinois city.
Although details are scant on the incident, it is clear from a now-viral video that Jacob Blake, a black man whom police were investigating as a result of a domestic disturbance call, was shot in the back several times by a white police officer.
&#8220;Blake was taken to a Milwaukee hospital and was in serious condition, the Kenosha Police Department said in a news release, in which it didn&#8217;t refer to him by name. The three officers were placed on administrative leave, as is standard practice in any officer-involved shooting,&#8221; <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2020/08/24/chicago-police-monitoring-situation-kenosha-after-police-shooting-sparks-protests">according to Chicago&#8217;s WTTW</a>.
Overnight, what started as protests over the incident quickly turned into violence and property damage as demonstrations grew into riots that left buildings and businesses on fire.
Wisconsin state authorities, as well as federal authorities, are involved in investigating the initial incident. Kenosha&#8217;s police department, which took swift action in spending the officers involved, has been quiet about details of the shooting as they question officers and witnesses.
Lightfoot weighed in on the Kenosha shooting Monday morning on social media.
&#8220;Yesterday in Wisconsin, a police officer shot Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, a father, 7 times in the back,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;I am deeply disturbed by the video capturing part of the incident. I urge civil &amp; criminal authorities to pursue an immediate &amp; thorough investigation of the shooting.&#8221;
The mayor, though, did not acknowledge another deadly weekend in the city, with 66 people shot.
&#8220;Five people were killed and 61 others, including three teenage boys, were injured in shootings across Chicago this weekend,&#8221; the Sun-Times reported. &#8220;Surging summer gun violence has prompted activists to call for Gov. J.B. Pritzker to declare a state of emergency and have the National Guard deployed to the city.&#8221;
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Chicago Mayor, Police ‘Monitoring’ Police-Involved Shooting In Kenosha, Urge Swift Action. Chicago Had 66 Shootings Last Weekend.

Chicago&#039;s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and its police superintendent, David Brown, weighed in on the police-involved shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that

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Thousands of people have been arrested for allegedly peaceful protests in Chicago.
Last week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot banned these allegedly peaceful protests from coming into her neighborhood, claiming she had received threats and that she had “a right to make sure that my home is secure.” Other Chicago residents don’t seem to have that right, however.
Six people were arrested in Lightfoot’s Logan Square block for failing to disperse after police asked them. The protesters were arrested for “misdemeanor residential picketing,” WGN9 <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/police-6-arrested-near-mayor-lightfoots-house-after-failing-to-disperse/">reported</a>. None of the six arrested were actual Chicago or even Illinois residents; three were from various cities in New York, one was from Pennsylvania, another from Arkansas, and the sixth was from Seattle.
Police told WGN9 they had given the protesters a verbal warning that was ignored, leading to their arrests.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fort-lori-chicago-police-ban-protests-on-mayors-block-order-arrests-for-violators">reported</a>, the Chicago Police Department banned protesters from the Logan Square block – where Mayor Lightfoot lives.
“The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Commander Melvin Roman to officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, ‘It should be locked down,&#8217;” the Chicago Tribune <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-police-lightfoot-protests-20200820-57vxhaa57jhijo3xllrflztcse-story.html">reported</a>.
Police told the outlet that state law, as well as city code, prohibit protesting in residential areas.
“CPD remains committed to facilitating First Amendment rights, while also protecting public safety. CPD continues to enforce state law and the City’s municipal code regarding public assembly,” police spokeswoman Margaret Huynh said in a statement published by the paper. “The block is open at this time.”
Lightfoot later told reporters that her family had received numerous threats, which is why she deserved the protection while residents in other neighborhoods and business owners have had to deal with rioters.
“I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure,” Lightfoot said at the time.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois told the Tribune that it might not be legal for police to protect the entire block where Lightfoot lives.
“The Supreme Court has found that the government can prohibit protests at a single home in a residential area, but that does not necessarily extend to the entire block,” ACLU spokesman Ed Yohnka said in a statement to the paper. “The right to free speech and peaceable assembly includes the right to choose one’s audience, and government actions that limit that right for the sake of residential privacy must be narrowly tailored to protect that interest.”
More from The Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl:
<blockquote>Lightfoot is not the only politician who has banned protests near their own residence.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has allowed protests to occur but not in his own front yard.
“What I cannot defend is any neighborhood in our city — and their residents and families — being disturbed through the night and morning, and a peaceful protest devolving into unacceptable conduct in which residents are being harassed and threatened. This crosses a line that cannot be allowed to continue, causing those committing crimes against residents to face possible legal consequences for their actions,” Peduto said, <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/08/19/pittsburgh-mayor-bill-peduto-house-protest-response/">according</a> to CBS-Pittsburgh.</blockquote>
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Six Arrested For Protesting In Chicago Mayor’s Neighborhood

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A Black Lives Matter activist said at a protest in Chicago on Saturday that the world was going to end if society does not get socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; and if Israel is not stopped from going into &#8220;Palestine.&#8221;
&#8220;A counter-revolution is the reason that capitalism is winning in many people&#8217;s eyes is because people are trying to save it right before it falls of the cliff,&#8221; the activist said in a video that was recorded by Blaze Media&#8217;s Elijah Schaffer.
&#8220;The world is going to end if we don&#8217;t get a green new deal,&#8221; the activist continued. &#8220;The world is going to end if we keep on bombing and allowing Israeli brigades to go into Palestine. The world is gonna f***ing end!&#8221;
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He also says the world will end if “we keep allowing Israeli brigades..into Palestine” 
All this after talking about the end of capitalism
What does this have to do w/ Black Lives? <a href="https://t.co/N13IfXfctT">pic.twitter.com/N13IfXfctT</a>
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The American Action Forum put out an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-new-deal-would-cost-93-trillion-or-600g-per-household-study-says">estimate</a> of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; when it was first unveiled last year, saying that it could cost up to $93 trillion, or $600,000 per household.
&#8220;The Green New Deal is clearly very expensive,&#8221; the summary of the study <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-green-new-deal-scope-scale-and-implications/">concluded</a>. &#8220;Its further expansion of the federal government’s role in some of the most basic decisions of daily life, however, would likely have a more lasting and damaging impact than its enormous price tag.&#8221;
The remarks from the Black Lives Matter activist came after other far-left members of the group made fringe remarks the day before.
“This is our city, our city, and we’re taking that s**t back,” one activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blm-activist-warns-you-can-listen-to-us-or-you-can-get-ran-over-were-taking-that-st-back">said</a>. “We have demands, and they need to be met, and I feel like I’ve been saying this too much—we’re not asking you anything. We’re telling you what’s about to happen with your permission or not.”
“You can listen to us or you can get ran over,” the activist continued. “And that’s all I have to say.”
Another activist bemoaned the fact that people cared about businesses being looted and destroyed during riots.
“People are worried about looting, and there are literal lives being taken away?” the activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-activist-screams-at-society-over-looting-get-over-it-these-buildings-are-insured">said</a>. “There are people who are dying, and y’all are mad about people looting Mag Mile? Get over it! These buildings are insured.”
“Materials will come back, but we will not come back if they kill us!” the activist continued. “What do y’all not get about that? Gucci, Apple store, whatever it is—that stuff will be replaced, but we won’t be replaced. We lose our lives, people lose our lives every single day for this cause, and y’all are mad about the wrong s**t!”
Schaffer tweeted out numerous other videos from Saturday&#8217;s protest in Chicago, including videos of the activists beating pig piñatas dressed as police officers.
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CHICAGO: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BLM</a> protesters ask “transgender &amp; gender non conforming non-binary black people” 
To beat up a big piñata that was only held by “tall white people” 
To unleash gold &amp; fake money into a symbolic paper maché black man
In front of riot police
JUST. WTF. IS. GOING. ON? <a href="https://t.co/u243QcCegX">pic.twitter.com/u243QcCegX</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1297339596964089858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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CHICAGO: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BLM</a> protesters dance by stomping on pig piñatas dressed as police officers 
Surrounded by gold dust and fake dollars bills that they beat out of the pigs earlier in the night 
Making MLK proud <a href="https://t.co/v9Gldmus5u">pic.twitter.com/v9Gldmus5u</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1297341648578510853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter Activist: ‘World Is Going To End If We Do Not’ Stop Israel From Going Into Palestine, Get Green New Deal

A Black Lives Matter activist said at a protest in Chicago on Saturday that the world was going to end if society does not get socialist Rep. Alexandria

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Hundreds of police officers assigned to patrol Chicago’s neighborhoods have been diverted to the downtown to protect city businesses from looters, but the district where Mayor Lori Lightfoot lives still has police guarding it.
Chicago Police Department (CPD) Chief of Patrol Brian McDermott sent a memo to top cops with the subject line “Downtown Deployment of Tactical Teams and Incident Teams,” CWBChicago <a href="https://cwbchicago.com/2020/08/cpd-diverting-hundreds-of-cops-from-neighborhoods-to-downtown-but-mayors-district-is-exempt.html">reported</a>.
Officers ordered to go downtown “will be highly visible. Vehicles will have their [blue] lights activated for the duration of their tour,” McDermott wrote. Officers “will also ensure that they have their helmets, batons, masks (if issued) with them.”
The CPD has also banned protesters from demonstrating on the block where Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) lives, ordering officers to arrest anyone who won&#8217;t leave, the Chicago Tribune <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-police-lightfoot-protests-20200820-57vxhaa57jhijo3xllrflztcse-story.html">reported</a>.
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&#8220;The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Commander Melvin Roman to officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, &#8216;It should be locked down,'&#8221; the paper wrote.
Chicago police have been blocking access to the area using barricades and police in riot gear. Cops have also been containing protests in nearby areas while cutting off their access to Lightfoot&#8217;s block.
“I came up with the name ‘Fort Lori’ because it’s so hard to get in and out,” Ron Kaminecki, a 69-year old patent attorney who lives a few houses from Lightfoot, told the paper.
In response to questions from the Tribune, police said state law and the city&#8217;s code prohibit protests in residential areas.
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“CPD remains committed to facilitating First Amendment rights, while also protecting public safety. CPD continues to enforce state law and the City’s municipal code regarding public assembly,” police spokeswoman Margaret Huynh said in a statement. “The block is open at this time.”
Lightfoot told reporters on Thursday that she and her family have been receiving threats daily.
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“I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure,” Lightfoot said.
The mayor would not divulge the threats.
Lightfoot is not the only politician who has banned protests near their own residence. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has allowed protests to occur, but not in his own front yard.
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“What I cannot defend is any neighborhood in our city — and their residents and families — being disturbed through the night and morning, and a peaceful protest devolving into unacceptable conduct in which residents are being harassed and threatened. This crosses a line that cannot be allowed to continue, causing those committing crimes against residents to face possible legal consequences for their actions,&#8221; Peduto said, <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/08/19/pittsburgh-mayor-bill-peduto-house-protest-response/">according</a> to CBS-Pittsburgh.
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Chicago Diverting Hundreds Of Cops From Neighborhoods To Downtown — But Mayor’s District Exempt

Hundreds of police officers assigned to patrol Chicago’s neighborhoods have been diverted to the downtown to protect city businesses from looters, but the

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Chicago warned late this week that people better meet their demands because they are going to get what they want regardless of whether or not people choose to comply.
The activist, who identified herself as Taylor Norwood during a different part of the press conference, repeatedly blasted Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot for allegedly &#8220;not protecting the black women in this city.&#8221;
Norwood appeared to accuse Lightfoot of &#8220;creating problems in black and brown communities to protect white people,&#8221; and claimed that Lightfoot was robbing them &#8220;of their right to vote.&#8221;
&#8220;This is our city, our city, and we’re taking that s**t back,&#8221; Norwood said. &#8220;We have demands, and they need to be met, and I feel like I’ve been saying this too much—we’re not asking you anything. We’re telling you what’s about to happen with your permission or not.&#8221;
&#8220;You can listen to us or you can get ran over,&#8221; Norwood said as she ended her rant. &#8220;And that’s all I have to say.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> activist in Chicago: “We have demands and they need to be met … we’re not asking you anything. We’re telling you what’s about to happen with your permission or not. … You can listen to us or you can get ran over.” <a href="https://t.co/yEXFT4LOv9">pic.twitter.com/yEXFT4LOv9</a>
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At the same event, another Black Lives Matter activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-activist-screams-at-society-over-looting-get-over-it-these-buildings-are-insured">screamed</a> at the media and society in general for caring about stores that were being looted.
“People are worried about looting, and there are literal lives being taken away?” she yelled. “There are people who are dying, and y’all are mad about people looting Mag Mile? Get over it! These buildings are insured.”
“Materials will come back, but we will not come back if they kill us!” she continued. “What do y’all not get about that? Gucci, Apple store, whatever it is—that stuff will be replaced, but we won’t be replaced. We lose our lives, people lose our lives every single day for this cause, and y’all are mad about the wrong s**t!”
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<blockquote>In the past two months, three of my sisters, my friends, have been arrested and brutalized by the Chicago Police Department. Our mayor has said nothing about it—our black, gay mayor is not protecting the black women in this city. I have a personal problem with that.
Alicia was arrested during the first protest downtown. Miracle had her teeth knocked out of her mouth. Alicia was thrown on the ground and beaten by several officers. These are women that we are talking about. These are women that are not committing any crimes except for exercising their First Amendment right to speak their voice. We’re speaking out against injustice, systemic racism, police brutality. We’re sick our brothers and our sisters dying in our communities, and the only thing that the mayor can do is sic her dogs on us? Is beat us? Is arrest us? Is steal our lives from us?
She’s cut of the Northside, completely cut off the Northside. Let’s just talk about the simple, the simple ways that we’re being dis-serviced [sic]. Because all of the exits are blocked off on any given day, it takes an hour and 30 minutes to get from the Southside of Chicago to the Westside of Chicago, on the express way. You are creating problems in black and brown communities to protect white people, and it shows, like we see you. We really see you for who you are; you’re not fooling anybody.
The answer to people fighting against the policies that you are putting in place is not to rob them of their right to vote, Lori! You can’t just throw felonies on everybody for speaking their mind. [Person arrested] has not been processed, he has not been released. We’ve been here for 12+ hours and she still has said nothing, nothing to community, nothing to the black organizers who were brutalized. We haven’t heard anything. This is unacceptable. This is our city, our city, and we’re taking that s**t back. Point. Blank. Period. End of discussion. We have demands, and they need to be met, and I feel like I’ve been saying this too much—we’re not asking you anything. We’re telling you what’s about to happen with your permission or not. I don’t wanna come out here again. I don’t wanna have to do this again. I don’t wanna take a day. I unfortunately was not at the action yesterday. I was actually taking a day between this organizing because it’s taxing work, because we are kids trying to grow up, and I took a day to myself to wake up to find out that my friends are being abused by the f***in’ police! You can listen to us or you can get ran over. And that’s all I have to say.</blockquote>
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Atlanta Protest Held In Response To Police Custody Death Of Minneapolis Man George Floyd

BLM Activist Warns: ‘You Can Listen To Us Or You Can Get Ran Over,’ ‘We’re Taking That S**t Back’

A Black Lives Matter activist in Chicago warned late this week that people better meet their demands because they are going to get what they want

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