Posted on 08/02/2018 4:53:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
An anti-violence protest in Chicago briefly shut down traffic on a busy city avenue on Thursday as dozens of protesters called on Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) to resign.
The Chicago Tribune reports that about 150 demonstrators blocked traffic on the southbound side of Lake Shore Drive around 4:15 p.m. local time, blocking traffic while city snowplows prevented traffic from approaching the area.
Demonstrators called for Emanuel to step down citing his support for tough policing tactics in the city as well as a climbing murder rate.
“There are too many killings in Chicago, there are too many police-involved killings in Chicago,” one of the demonstration’s organizers, Tio Hardiman, told the newspaper. “It’s time to change the narrative in Chicago.”
The road was reopened by 5:00 p.m. CST, according to the Tribune. The protest, which occurred on the city's North Side, was meant to inconvenience wealthier residents of Chicago's more affluent areas, according to those who attended.
“It’s good to be a little uncomfortable. It’s one day of discomfort, not a lifetime of discomfort,” one protester said, according to the Tribune.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said another. “You can protest for a decade on the South Side without getting any attention. Come up here, you can reach people untouched by violence. You got a lot of rich who’re people who, it’s not their problem. I guess you can make it their problem.”
The protest occurred on the first day of the Lollapalooza music festival and the same day as a Chicago Cubs baseball game, which both drew thousands to the city. Organizers were originally hoping for a larger turnout and had suggested they would attempt to enter the Cubs stadium.
“We have people who are committed, who are ready to get arrested,” Rev. Ira Acree, an organizer, told The Tribune earlier this week. “And those who don’t, they’ll stay back. But certainly, people are going to get arrested. And we will have attorneys and people who will provide resources to bail them out.”
You got a lot of rich who’re people who, it’s not their problem. I guess you can make it their problem.”
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Better watch what you ‘wish’ for.
Wake up them rich LIBs and they may go out and ‘buy’ some Law & Order candidates whose goal will be to shut down the hood.
When BO puts his money with them, YOU may get the message.
Makes. No. Sense.
“Yes, make it uncomfortable for rich white folks. They’ll continue moving out and there’ll be nobody to pay for all your social programs!!”
Just made northsiders hate southsides more..as if that’s5 possible.
The commie cure for everything-share the misery (when the other people just won’t conduct themselves as criminally and as pathologically as your community does, then spread some of your misery to them. Don’t even consider just stopping the cause of your own misery).
Oh, and according to the SCC blog-the people n the nice areas where the protests were held (up from the hood), set up to have rooftop parties and watch the sh*tshow. They don’t have to go to the zoo, the zoo comes to them, lol.
All I can say is that if they voted for ‘rats, especially the repeat offenders, then I won’t waste any pity.
Exactly.
Good for you, it warms my heart to hear such stories, as long as the “flighters” are good conservatives like yourselves.
They need to force the rest of the white people out. Chicago should only have black people. Well maybe keep a white guy as mayor, but that’s it.
Maybe they got jobs..
“city snowplows prevented traffic from approaching the area.”
They’re doing it wrong...
You know, you're very preceptive.....the Halfrican does look like a speed bump.
Congratulations
I don’t understand why more conservative people don’t follow your lead. It is difficult to leave a place you have always called home.
Did the hippie protesters of the Vietnam era ever try to crash professional sport games? I’ve not heard of it but I’m too young to know.
The jerk democrats still shut down Lake Shore Drive.
Believe there is great disgust about this political maneuver. The media was gaga
for the 150 protesters. This is what insanity of the left looks like.
Rham seems to be quite popular these days.
If Democrats think the monolithic 90 percent black voting block will be there to support them in November they might be in for a surprise. I wonder if they have a Plan B.
Paging mayor... bloody rahm ...please pick up the blood stained courtesy telephone.
So sad, they have no idea mayor bloody rahm cares nothing for the lives of human beings.
He only cares about votes, and Democrat power...
He watches while the minons pay for his power with their blood and lives ..
No Democrat media would dare deny avenati his airtime, in order to cover Chicago blacks being murdered by the thousands.
Black murder in Dem controlled cities is treated like vector control mosquito spraying.
Dems don’t care a lick for black lives....
They only care about stormy and Muller ...
We need someone to create a great pic of Rham the impaler, drinking a goblet of blood as blacks are murdered in Chicago Illinois!
Dems pure evil. American Holocaust at their hands.
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