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‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’ Aldermen React with Panic, Sorrow to Unrest
WTTW News ^ | June 5, 2020 | Heather Cherone, Paris Schutz

Posted on 06/10/2020 12:48:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

While one alderman wept, others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.

The call provides a snapshot into the city’s response as of midday on Sunday to the most widespread and damaging unrest since the uprising after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

The recording begins with Ald. Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.

“It’s like, what are we going to have left in our community?” Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself. “Nothing.”

The Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus criticized Lightfoot’s decision to use 375 members of the Illinois National Guard to block off the Loop and the central business district starting Sunday morning, making business corridors on the South and West sides an “easy target” for looters and criminals because they “did not have the same level of protection.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aldermen; chicago; georgefloydriots; looters; riots
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All the rich liberals are safe and snug in their protected environs while poor minorities suffer. This is what always happens when the left has its way.
1 posted on 06/10/2020 12:48:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Only some black lives matter


2 posted on 06/10/2020 12:48:35 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Chaos is a Ladder.

The Left would have this Country burn as long as they get to be Kings of the Ashes.

3 posted on 06/10/2020 12:49:37 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Pining_4_TX

I’m going to stop even thinking about driving through ChIraq on the freeways.


4 posted on 06/10/2020 12:54:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Pining_4_TX
While one alderman wept, others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.

"Give them room to destroy."

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake,Mayor of Baltimore, July 2015

"Let the bunker burn."

Gregore Sambor, Philadelphia Police Commissioner, May 1985

5 posted on 06/10/2020 12:55:28 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: 2banana

Blacks keep voting for Democrats—and wonder why everything seems to keep going wrong in their communities—for decades....


6 posted on 06/10/2020 12:55:29 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Paladin2

Scary, isn’t it? That’s the way I feel about East St. Louis, too. The US already has no-go zones for police and whites.


7 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: 2banana

Yes, only the ones with political power.


8 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:37 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Unrest”. A ridiculous term for riot.


9 posted on 06/10/2020 12:58:23 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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“...demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence.”

Taking our guns.


10 posted on 06/10/2020 1:00:02 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Pining_4_TX

Having grown up in Chicago the damage done by the King Riots ( NOT “uprising”) on Madison Street was there for decades.


11 posted on 06/10/2020 1:01:07 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’?

Well- When you let emotion rule your decisions... just say’n


12 posted on 06/10/2020 1:03:31 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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Funny how certain areas never seem to have the work ethic required to repair and rebuild. Much of New Orleans looks just as it did after Hurricane Katrina. They’re still waiting for somebody else to do it for them. It’s learned helplessness.


13 posted on 06/10/2020 1:04:56 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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“and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968”

Police riots? What foul rewriting of history is this?


14 posted on 06/10/2020 1:08:41 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This story is 1000% BS. Channel 11 WTTW has been a cheerleader for Mayor Lighthead since she took office. Channel 11 will be back with stories victimizing the Mayor against some uncooperative aldermen.

The Chicago Media dances to Lighthead’s tune. They did not print this without her permission.


15 posted on 06/10/2020 1:09:53 PM PDT by EC Washington
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Looks like it’s an NPR or PBS site. That’s par for the course, and we are forced to pay for this crap.


16 posted on 06/10/2020 1:10:00 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: EC Washington

I like to get most of my news about Chicago from secondcitycop.blogspot.com

I’m surprised they haven’t found a way to censor him.


17 posted on 06/10/2020 1:11:10 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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It’s like, what are we going to have left in our community?” Harris asks her colleagues

The same Democrats and Democrat voters. Enjoy!

18 posted on 06/10/2020 1:13:55 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Steely Tom
"Give them room to destroy." — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake,Mayor of Baltimore, July 2015 "Let the bunker burn." — Gregore Sambor, Philadelphia Police Commissioner, May 1985

One has NOTHING to do with the other except two asinine black mayors. Learn about MOVE. Educate yourself.

19 posted on 06/10/2020 1:18:32 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Pining_4_TX

making business corridors on the South and West sides an “easy target” for looters and criminals because they “did not have the same level of protection.”

Perhaps they can now see WHO the “well regulated militia” that is “necessary for the security of a free state” ACTUALLY is. These citizens, (unorganized militia under Illinois law) should be trained, organized, and answerable to the governor at time like this, when there are not enough organized militia (National Guard) available.

But leftists like the semi-commie bunch currently running Illinois despise the constitutional concept of the RKBA that the framers gave to us, and have worked diligently to subvert it’s meaning for over a hundred years now.


20 posted on 06/10/2020 1:22:16 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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