10 hours ago, webfact said:

Tempers flared, fueled by misinformation as the afternoon turned into evening

Meanwhile, the archduke of misinformation plays golf....

49 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

All this is happening on Trump's watch.  3+ years into his presidency.  So whether Trump likes it or not, he owns it. 

The blm protest speaker  supported the looters ! Trump doesn't support that group blm! 

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by riclag

7 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Meanwhile, the archduke of misinformation plays golf....

meanwhile, why change the topic! there was 100 arrests as a result of the chaos and the news reported that looting was supported by a political group that has been in the news as peaceful protesters for the last 3 months!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/

10 hours ago, webfact said:

....After the shooting, a crowd gathered. ... Tempers flared, fueled by misinformation.....

Sadly misinformation is one of the world's biggest enemies at the moment. Information (Social media especially)  may be the key to our ultimate self destruction.

3 hours ago, Morch said:

 

Some of the looters had "live gun fights" with the police. Lumping various groups together seems to be a thing on these topics. And no, it's not the army's job do deal with "gun fights" - not even on the scale that took place. Armies are for war.

Yep, time to call in Wyatt Earp and the other wild west gunslingers.

This could have been avoided if the cops hadn't shot back at the 20 year old suspect. They should have just called a social worker to see if he's feeling ok and not being victimised by the whites. Shooting at an armed guns-blazing suspect is just plain racist.

Let's blame Trump. The point is these things have been simmering for years under both Democratic and Republican governments. At the end of the day the blacks are a minority. So they'll lose. Shame on the Democrats for trying to exploit this as a political advantage.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by nausea

18 minutes ago, riclag said:

The blm protest speaker  supported the looters ! Trump doesn't support that group blm! 

BLM is a loose confederation of many social movement groups who simply refer to the BLM slogan and very much decentralized with no national leadership. Who is Trump not supporting. 

23 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yep, time to call in Wyatt Earp and the other wild west gunslingers.

Nonsense! Need more law enforcement and  most importantly hold the criminals responsible! While denouncing the groups who support in this case looters 

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by riclag

17 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

BLM is a loose confederation of many social movement groups who simply refer to the BLM slogan and very much decentralized with no national leadership. Who is Trump not supporting. 

lol 

“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, said. “That makes sure that person has clothes.”

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by riclag

5 minutes ago, riclag said:

lol 

“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, said. “That makes sure that person has clothes.”

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/

Anyone can be a BLM organizer and say stupid things. The movement is bigger than 1 individual angst and his frustration with the longstanding issues and Floyd's death. Ultimately it's up to the President to unite the country and send out the right message.

BLM, I thought that was a government entity known as the Beurea of Land Management.  Why isn't the government suing the Black Lives Matter group for misappropriation of a government name, and the acronym BLM.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.blm.gov/&ved=2ahUKEwiD086P-pLrAhUllXIEHStmD_QQFjAAegQICRAD&usg=AOvVaw2zx9xs4tFzcUNCPYbA_6KT

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by ThailandRyan

12 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Anyone can be a BLM organizer and say stupid things. The movement is bigger than 1 individual angst and his frustration with the longstanding issues and Floyd's death. Ultimately it's up to the President to unite the country and send out the right message.

 What does floyd and a President  have to do with 100 arrests , looting ,chaos in chicago

Chicago: showcase Democrat controlled American city.  Defund police?  Not such a good idea...

3 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Chicago: showcase Democrat controlled American city.  Defund police?  Not such a good idea...

Its just so frustrating to see these businesses  being subjected to lawlessness and chaos, night after night in these dem run cities!

 Now the criminal thugs are being supported   for their  destruction,  by the far left groups in that city. 

 

31 minutes ago, riclag said:

 What does floyd and a President  have to do with 100 arrests , looting ,chaos in chicago

A brand new  pair of Gucci shoes helps to deal with the grief of Floyds death 

4 hours ago, Morch said:

 

Guess that in your haste to make the "powerless" argument, you missed the part about arrests made. I know that for some law enforcement is about shooting bad people, but in real life, that's not how it works. As for "normal", criminals shooting at police isn't a new thing in the USA, don't know why you pretend otherwise.

 

You loaded question is bogus. You've no clear indication about the connection, you're just assuming it. The "civil war" nonsense is hyperbole.

The police can arrest all they wish but all will be out the next day or that night. The DA Kim Fox (backed and funded by George Soros MoveOn.org), remember jessie Smollet. She is the one that dropped charges after a grand jury indicted him.

 

 Fox ran on a campaign of social justice and will not prosecute any of them. So, arrest all you like, the rats know it so let’s shoot and burn. Funny seeing cars pull up and let people out. They run in and come back out with an arm full of merchandise, then drive away.

 

The police chief has complained but the mayor Lightfoot and Fox still lets everyone out and does not prosecute. Lightfoot can’t complain, she backed Fox in the election. So as everyone says, you get what you deserve.

 

Good thing this is just a few liberal run cities, not the 99.99% of the rest of the US. They are doing more to elect Trump and the Dems know it! So, keep it up you rats. Feeding on that dead carcass of these liberal run cities.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8612317/Cook-County-prosecutor-Kim-Foxx-dismissed-25-000-felony-cases-including-Jussie-Smollett.html

5 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Your post seems to be written under the assumption blacks are the only race to have ever looted something. 

Well maybe so in the past. But last night it was all Black. In all the footage not a single Caucasian, Asian or Hispanic was pictured. It probably would not have been a good idea to be in the area if you were white.

20 minutes ago, RANGER55 said:

The police can arrest all they wish but all will be out the next day or that night. The DA Kim Fox (backed and funded by George Soros MoveOn.org), remember jessie Smollet. She is the one that dropped charges after a grand jury indicted him.

 

 Fox ran on a campaign of social justice and will not prosecute any of them. So, arrest all you like, the rats know it so let’s shoot and burn. Funny seeing cars pull up and let people out. They run in and come back out with an arm full of merchandise, then drive away.

 

The police chief has complained but the mayor Lightfoot and Fox still lets everyone out and does not prosecute. Lightfoot can’t complain, she backed Fox in the election. So as everyone says, you get what you deserve.

 

Good thing this is just a few liberal run cities, not the 99.99% of the rest of the US. They are doing more to elect Trump and the Dems know it! So, keep it up you rats. Feeding on that dead carcass of these liberal run cities.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8612317/Cook-County-prosecutor-Kim-Foxx-dismissed-25-000-felony-cases-including-Jussie-Smollett.html

You forget to mention communist/socialist/Marxist and Clinton/Obama.

5 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Army is trained to fight wars not against civilians. That’s the police job. Why so hard to understand. 

Until the police are no longer able to control the situation or are hamstrung from doing so........

Well at least a Walmart was spared this time.

12 hours ago, Logosone said:

Good to see Lori Lightfoot in total control.

 

Still at least no evil federal troops to pollute Chicago's streets with their horrible law enforcement.

General Sheridan is turning over in his grave.  The last military commander of Chicago.

Time to defund the police, it's working swell in Seattle. Just the thing Chicago needs.

 

https://www.insider.com/seattles-black-police-chief-carmen-best-resigns-after-budget-cuts-2020-8

13 hours ago, BritManToo said:

That's what you get for building a 'luxury commercial district' in the middle of a post apocalyptic wasteland.

Well .. They must be making money or they would go out of business ... Maybe catering to the drug lords and the other high roller criminal people who are profiting from the  post apocalyptic wasteland ???? ?

12 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

All of the stuff stolen will make it's way into houses of people who are apparently not involved in this. Nobody is going to call the cops when their kid comes home with a new flat screen and has no job.

 

I'd be afraid to even plug in a stolen 70" flat screen TV.  They don't call them Smart TV's for nothing.  Easy to imagine them being programmed to phone home, identify by S/N and IP address, and then the cops know just where to look.

 

7 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Your post seems to be written under the assumption blacks are the only race to have ever looted something. 

 

They may not hold a monopoly but are the majority shareholder of the looting biz these days. I was also speaking in a larger context about crime and gangs in general.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by Cryingdick

6 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

The BLM group organized a protest in which looting and violence occurred .

Looting isnt usually organised, its usually spontaneous and I didnt mean to suggest that looting was organised by the BLMG .

   But the demonstration was organsied by them and they havent condemned or spoken out against the violence/looting  , which suggests that they support the violence/looting . 

 

As I said in another post those Flatscreen TV and Nikes don't just disappear. It either ends up in the homes of people that did the looting or at pawn shops to fence. The people in the community know exactly who did the looting. They either support it or benefit from the ill gotten gains. 

3 hours ago, riclag said:

Its just so frustrating to see these businesses  being subjected to lawlessness and chaos, night after night in these dem run cities!

 Now the criminal thugs are being supported   for their  destruction,  by the far left groups in that city. 

 

 

The real fun begins when the embers go cold and the mayor declares a lockdown because of the spread of virus from the looting. Suddenly they enforce the law. Actually not even the law but executive orders. 

33 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I'd be afraid to even plug in a stolen 70" flat screen TV.  They don't call them Smart TV's for nothing.  Easy to imagine them being programmed to phone home, identify by S/N and IP address, and then the cops know just where to look.

 

 

Yeah that is either here or coming. A couple of times people have broken into Apple stores and the results were comical as the devices were swiftly located. My point still stands about the bounty of the looting is sitting right in their homes and their parents and children and friends all know who did the looting. 

The real question is when rational Americans who tend toward left-wing politics are going to abdicate their pathological derangement syndrome as far as Trump is concerned and realize that the far-left in America, and the careerist former Democrat moderates that pander to it, are self-evidently the greater of two evils. That's all that is necessary for a Trump victory in 2020. I'd think you'd have to be living in a basement along with Biden with nothing on the TV but CNN anti-Trump vitriol and a complete left-wing media blackout to the conflagration of our cities to come to the conclusion that: "Donald Trump's personality is such an issue that I'm willing to turn a blind eye to literally everything else promoted by the Democrats." The complete and utter disaster that is the Democratic party in America.