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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
KEYWORDS: animals; antifa; barackhusseinobama; bidenrally; bidensfault; blacklives; blacklivesmatter; blm; chaos; chicago; chicagoriots; demagogicparty; domesticterrorism; illinois; looting; lowerthanwhaleshit; obama; obamasfault; peopleofcolor; riot; rioting; riots; smashngrab; teens; terrorism; thugs
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To: unread

“Chicago... What a wonderful place to sell ammo....”

...if only it were legal. I don’t believe tou can buy a roll of caps in the city.


41 posted on 08/10/2020 5:40:21 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Palio di Siena

Yep. The payoffs - or, the promise of payoffs - to these lib mayors, councils, police chiefs and Govs, has to be massive.

Follow the d@mn money, DOJ.


42 posted on 08/10/2020 5:41:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Well they certainly have a high class of looters in Il. :).
43 posted on 08/10/2020 5:41:31 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: CptnObvious
Does anyone see a pattern yet??

It's a real-time, live-action documentary about desertification -- the making of food deserts. And merchandise deserts. In fact, just deserts.

de·sert·i·fi·ca·tion
/dəˌzərdəfəˈkāSH(ə)n/

noun

the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.

44 posted on 08/10/2020 5:44:23 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Palio di Siena

“....how can the governor not deploy the guard to protect downtown Chicago?“

LOL, you’ve got to be kidding.

The smart money is supposedly buying up real estate in NW Indiana, including Gary. Gary. I am NOT kidding.


45 posted on 08/10/2020 5:46:21 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: KeyLargo

“CHICAGO (CBS)– In what appears to be a widespread, coordinated attack, dozens of stores, banks and other businesses were broken into across downtown Chicago overnight.”

One of Stalin’s first jobs as a young Communist Revolutionary was robbing banks to finance the Party.


46 posted on 08/10/2020 5:47:09 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: KeyLargo
From the article: "It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the unrest, which began shortly after midnight, but anti-police graffiti was seen in the area."

I'm just shaking my head. How eff'n stupid can someone be to write that. I swear so-called journalists have IQ's of morons.

47 posted on 08/10/2020 5:47:55 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: AU72

That’s a popcorn moment.

A siege of DC? Let’s see what happens.


48 posted on 08/10/2020 5:48:55 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: KeyLargo
Any word from Groot ?


49 posted on 08/10/2020 5:51:29 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Ezekiel
“de·sert·i·fi·ca·tion /dəˌzərdəfəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.”

In this analogy, I suppose that this would fall under “inappropriate agriculture”, in that people are reaping what they did not sow.
50 posted on 08/10/2020 5:52:56 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
The rioters or the mayors?

Both?

52 posted on 08/10/2020 5:55:47 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: KeyLargo

The elected officials in the Democrat cities are mirror images of the people that elected them and vise versa. The mirror never lies.


53 posted on 08/10/2020 5:57:24 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: KeyLargo

Heard lori clubfoot sayin come back Ill buy you a drink


54 posted on 08/10/2020 5:58:19 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: KeyLargo

my suggestion to police who can’t get all the rioters - slash every tire on every vehicle you can while they rioters in the stores with their buddies waiting outside with the engine running

let the tow companies sort it out


55 posted on 08/10/2020 6:00:53 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Paleo Pete

My nephew lives in NYC right now. One if the wealthiest areas in Manhattan. He says it is bad. Robberies and muggings everywhere.


56 posted on 08/10/2020 6:01:16 AM PDT by riri
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To: Ezekiel

In America, the process is not desertification. The ongoing process is Africanization

America’s once great cities have devolved into corrupt African civilized failure


57 posted on 08/10/2020 6:01:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: The Antiyuppie

See, it really is the simple meaning. :(

It’s also like when the untouched, “back-to-nature” environmentally correct and morally superior forests burn to the ground. One spark and whooosh.


58 posted on 08/10/2020 6:02:47 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Helen

If I had a nickel for every time I corrected someone for using the wrong form of your and you’re, or there, their and they’re, or can not for cannot, I’d have 0.00. If I had a nickel for every time I saw the words written incorrectly, I be a millionaire.

There is no point; it just seems petty.


59 posted on 08/10/2020 6:07:31 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: KeyLargo

RP Nation is hosted livestream/recap stream, now:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1PlKQNkpekYGE

twitter tag: chicagoriots
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23chicagoriots&src=typed_query

Tesla dealer hit hard

Jewelers, drug stores also hit hard

press conf in abt 5 min


60 posted on 08/10/2020 6:08:47 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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