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LIVE COVERAGE: Widespread damage reported in downtown Chicago after night of looting
WGN Chicago ^ | 8-10-2020

Posted on 08/10/2020 5:00:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo

LIVE COVERAGE: Widespread damage reported in downtown Chicago after night of looting Chicago News / 35 mins ago

CHICAGO — Widespread damage is reported in downtown Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight.

Witnesses report hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.

WGN’s Judy Wang was on the scene early and reported seeing people filling trash bags with merchandise. She also saw crowd trashing the streets outside the stores and turning over garbage cans.

2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins told WGN he witnessed people driving up in vehicles, smashing windows of stores on Michigan Avenue and grab items and drive away.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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To: jjotto

“And note that Chicago has recently added 200 police to the downtown tourist area. They are apparently powerless.”

They are afraid to arrest anybody and can’t shoot anybody. In any event the only people in danger or prosecution would be...the police!

So they are only there for show and a paycheck.


141 posted on 08/10/2020 9:29:04 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: LibsRJerks

“ Good men nowadays do nothing.”

That is because America, the country you once knew, has ALREADY fallen. Even a president can’t fight it. The totalitarians already rule.

If good men did anything about it, they’d be thrown in jail. It’s the Marxists/Fascists who are in power.


142 posted on 08/10/2020 9:37:22 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: BigEdLB

Much less of a chance of convictibg them of real crimes.


143 posted on 08/10/2020 9:44:24 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: KeyLargo

Da chickens be coming home to roost, eh?


144 posted on 08/10/2020 9:52:25 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Gold Coast Liberals voted for this mayor and governor.

Now they have been fleeing the city in droves.

Illinois second-worst state for flight of well-off millenials - Quicktake
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August 10, 2020 6

A recent study by SmartAsset took a look at where well-off millennials are moving to and from. Specifically, they looked at individuals younger than age 35 with adjusted gross incomes of at least $100,000.

New York, Illinois and Massachusetts, in that order, were worst off for net loss of that group, they found. The study was based on IRS data between 2017 and 2018.

The three biggest winners were Washington, Colorado and Texas.

Their full study is here.

Wirepoints

-Mark Glennon

https://wirepoints.org/illinois-second-worst-state-for-flight-of-well-off-millenials-quicktake/


145 posted on 08/10/2020 10:05:39 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: All

looks like a widespread derecho with winds of 80-100 MPH in much of the midwest

many areas will loose power afterwords for a long time

100 NPH wind gusts juts comfirmed in IA

might get interesting tonight


146 posted on 08/10/2020 10:09:28 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

Derecho? I don’t like them. Bad memories from March 2nd 2018.


147 posted on 08/10/2020 10:17:00 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: All

looting still going in isolated but new sections of the city


148 posted on 08/10/2020 10:53:42 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

P.O. Potatoes
@PO_Potatoes
Throwing bricks now need an ambo for an injured PO hit with a brick


149 posted on 08/10/2020 11:25:41 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

They’re throwing bottles and fireworks from the south alley

A minivan tried to hit a PO and fled,


150 posted on 08/10/2020 11:34:40 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Thanks for a post that finally admits this.

It won’t matter if “Trump wins.” THEY have already won and are in power, absolutely.


151 posted on 08/10/2020 12:16:24 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: KeyLargo

Top Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx’s office has dismissed more than 25,000 felony cases - including murders, shootings, sexual assaults and Jussie Smollett’s ‘hoax’ attack!

8/10/2020, 12:30:48 PM · by rickmichaels · 9 replies
Daily Mail ^ | August 10, 2020 | Megan Sheets

So no bad guys/gals are in jail in Chicago. They are out looting, shooting and killing other blacks.

Weekly BLM Kills in Chicagostan: https://heyjackass.com/


152 posted on 08/10/2020 12:50:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: MRadtke

Just watched a live stream of a black guy putting a bunch of looted stuff into an Escalade and driving off in it.

Was he wearing his mask?


153 posted on 08/10/2020 12:52:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: Travis McGee

Official Democrat Campaign Motto in 2020:

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/057/574/887/original/b34bd93f17e1b83c.jpg?1597059323


154 posted on 08/10/2020 12:58:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: CptnObvious

The Siege of Chicago continues.

As is does in Portland, as in NYC, as in ...; all Democratic cities.

Does anyone see a pattern yet??

Trump’s and his evil deploreables fault.


155 posted on 08/10/2020 1:00:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: unread

Put a bounty on them.


156 posted on 08/10/2020 1:03:30 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: AU72

ANTIFA is declaring a 50 day siege of DC next month.

Democrat 2020 Motto:

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/057/574/887/original/b34bd93f17e1b83c.jpg?1597059323


157 posted on 08/10/2020 1:03:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: Grampa Dave
Laurie has deep problems as well. Voters should know for whom they are voting...their Character and integrity count for 100% more than the color of their skin.


158 posted on 08/10/2020 1:04:47 PM PDT by yoe
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To: KeyLargo

Lightfoot, speaking with @GovPritzker: “We both believe this is not an incident that requires the National Guard. We do not need federal troops in Chicago. Period. Full stop...”

Dear Mr. Trump,
How would like like to pick up all the electoral votes in IL?

Simple: 10th mountain division setting securing perimeters around downtown and all shopping areas - with shoot-to-kill orders for curfew violators until there is a 30 day no-homicide limit. And bivouac at the Mayor’s office.

Oh, think that would make the President look bad? Frankly, it looks worse than that NOW.

What have got to lose?

just my $0.02.


159 posted on 08/10/2020 1:26:52 PM PDT by jimjohn (The 2nd American Civil War began shortly after 12:00 noon on January 20, 2017)
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To: EnquiringMind

If you grade papers, it is worth spilling the red ink. Not so much on FR. We is edducated here.


160 posted on 08/10/2020 1:29:42 PM PDT by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
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