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Chicago gas station owners say city inspectors shutting them down for minor violations and ‘racist reasons’
Chicago Tribune ^ | Sep. 17, 2021 | Jade Yan

Posted on 09/17/2021 8:07:07 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

According to a release announcing the Monday news conference, the owners believe the closures are part of an effort by Lightfoot to discourage gang members from congregating in the areas where the stores are located, according to Hassan Nijem, president of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce.

Store owners are also claiming that Lightfoot is specifically targeting Arab American and Muslim store owners “for racist reasons,” said Nijem.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: arabs; chicago; lightfoot; popcorn
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1 posted on 09/17/2021 8:07:07 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Lord, please do not make me cheer for her


2 posted on 09/17/2021 8:10:49 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Well this is interesting, pass the popcorn.


3 posted on 09/17/2021 8:13:04 PM PDT by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: toddausauras

Lol! You have done read mah mind!


4 posted on 09/17/2021 8:16:01 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ConservativeStatement

Well, since most Arabs and Mohammadans in America are White, Lightfoot does hate Whitey.


5 posted on 09/17/2021 8:18:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: toddausauras

Radical Leftists finally eating their own is the logical end point of everything they’re doing.

Just sit back and watch the wheels turn.


6 posted on 09/17/2021 8:19:54 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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7 posted on 09/17/2021 8:27:33 PM PDT by henbane (The barbarians are inside the gates and occupy the Capitol!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Lightfoot does hate Whitey.

Except the one she ****s.

8 posted on 09/17/2021 11:10:02 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: toddausauras

I hear you.


9 posted on 09/17/2021 11:20:59 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ConservativeStatement

LOL! Lefty cat fight!


10 posted on 09/18/2021 3:08:52 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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Is it advisable to irritate a lot of muzzies?????


11 posted on 09/18/2021 4:44:16 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: ConservativeStatement

Meanwhile, Chicago hit its 600th homicide this week.


12 posted on 09/18/2021 4:46:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

And this is where the left will come full circle to whom they actually are…racists. They’ll start attacking blacks, gays and other minorities. Don’t go over the cliff even though it’s seems like justification.


13 posted on 09/18/2021 4:51:03 AM PDT by mikelets456
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Meanwhile, Chicago and Illinois aren't alone...

NY to eliminate jail time for most minor parole violations

14 posted on 09/18/2021 4:51:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

BeetleJuice trying to force her Feral Animals into “normal” neighborhoods to rob and murder in hopes of getting “Burbs on her side for more gun control ala’ “Fast and Furious”?


15 posted on 09/18/2021 5:06:15 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Punishing business owners for crimes of others. How very Stalin of her. Everyone on the left is insane.


16 posted on 09/18/2021 5:28:46 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Feckless

More like she’s over her head, has lost control, and is flailing.


17 posted on 09/18/2021 6:05:37 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: ConservativeStatement

“But, but...we sell Cool Filters.”


18 posted on 09/18/2021 6:52:35 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!)
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To: mewzilla

And it’s only mid-September.

I’m betting they break a thousand.


19 posted on 09/18/2021 6:54:03 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Border persons start new business.


20 posted on 09/18/2021 8:49:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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