Posted on 06/05/2020 4:04:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Some of the stories told by local residents offer a personal perspective and make you realize precisely what these neighborhoods have lost. Plenty of people there don’t own their own cars and if you’ve ever tried to take a bus to go grocery shopping, you know what a nightmare that is. These are low-income neighborhoods and not everyone can afford to summon a taxi or an Uber (assuming you can even get one to come to make a pickup). Some people are already waking dozens of city blocks to purchase only as many groceries as they can carry by hand.
This is what came of the “protesting” that was, at least in these neighborhoods, little more than a thinly disguised excuse to loot every business, smash every window and engage in anarchy while literally setting the world on fire. And what did it get them? As one resident interviewed for this report sadly noted, they’ve managed to further drive down their property values and “embarrass themselves.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
That’s a shame
The walk out of the food deserts to find something to eat will give them an appetite...
Of course, not everyone there was a looter/vandal,
but the looter/vandal types ended up HURTING everyone.......
That’s just too bad.
They burned down their grocery stores. Let them suffer mightily for it.
The young men in Gary, IN burnt the town down 30+ years ago. It has never recovered. There are no real stores in Gary. Some small corner groceries run by new arrivals from the Middle East and that is it. Parts of Gary look like Berlin in 1945. No one in their right mind would ever build a store in Gary, Indiana.
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so much for Obama’s center.
It would not surprise me if many of these stores closed for good. Stores of any kind in black areas tend to be a marginal proposition. Shoplifting and vandalism are through the roof, and that’s just the employees. Throw in the even more felonious customers, and it’s one headache after another. All of this to barely break even.
Most of these looted stores probably opened when their surrounding areas were lily-white. Whether insurance covered a significant portion of their losses or this was a total loss for the owners, the odds are that they will cut bait. In riot-torn LA, 50% of the Korean-owned stores shut down permanently, despite the English-challenged owners having few alternatives, in addition to being inured to all the crap they have to put up with, by operating in a black area.
And you will soon the women on television with their hands out crying their six babies don’t have any food and we are obligated to take care of them.
Years ago we visited in-laws who were working in Russia. The kids, MIL and I all went with SIL on the tram to the supermarket on the edge of St. Petersburg.
She wanted us to go with her to help carry all the goods home. She would only go to the supermarket when she had help. Except for MIL we were all a lot younger and it still wore SIL out.
And then, when we all got back to their flat, had to either lug it all up 7 flights of stairs or ride up 2 or 3 at a time in this rickety elevator that felt like an accident waiting to happen.
So, yes, for those peeps, especially the elderly to lose their neighborhood grocery is a hardship many of us struggle to imagine.
I’ve ordered a few things from Target in the past, so they have my email address. Received a total bulls—t email from them today about how woke they are and all that they’re doing to support BLM etc. Not a single word about the looting they suffered nor any a single word of thanks to law enforcement, employees, security personnel and even citizen volunteers who protected some of their stores from looting. Absolutely disgusting.
What’s my point? Companies like Target are annoying. After all this looting, they’ll quietly shutter stores in heavily black neighborhoods and avoid opening news stores in such ‘hoods, but they’ll never admit why. They’ll never tell the truth about the looters who robbed them blind. Target will quietly go about their business while loudly proclaiming their wokeness and making all the right donations to BLM-style causes as a smokescreen.
But it's only property. /sarc
its going to get worse in Chicago
from secondcity:
Chases are Over
Predicted here by so many readers over the years, it’s finally coming true:
Before a crash involving police killed a woman in Lake View on Wednesday night, Chicago Police radio traffic indicates the officers had been told to stop pursuing a fleeing suspect.
Officers were told at least four times to terminate the pursuit, according to the radio traffic. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown declined to discuss any specifics of the pursuit during a news conference Thursday.
In light of that crash, Lightfoot said more changes will soon come to CPD’s policy on pursuits.
Word coming in that the change is going to be “No Chasing.” Ever. Period.Chase and you will be fired.
We’re going to go out on a limb and predict a rise in drive-bys along with shootings where the offender jumps into a waiting car to flee. Because if we can’t chase for the most serious of offenses, then the offenders are going to do exactly what it takes to get away every single time.
Where is Michelle Obama complaining about food deserts?
ZFG
Cry me a river.
“The walk out of the food deserts to find something to eat will give them an appetite...”
And exercise to lose some of the diabetes blubber.
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