Protests over the death of George Floyd this weekend in Chicago took an ugly turn when looters and rioters destroyed the city. Videos of looter ransacking stores on Michigan Avenue were shared around social media.
The gem of Chicago, Michigan Avenue, is a war zone today
Our petty tyrant Mayor Lightfoot imposed the harshest lockdown in America. She & Gov Pritzker shuttered schools, churches, parks, and small businesses
Like Washington D.C., NYC, Minneapolis, and other major cities across America, fires raged in buildings and cop cars burned after “peaceful”protesters destroyed black-owned businesses and killed black cops to get “justice” for George.
When the police car caught on fire DT. I keep hearing DT Chicago is trashed right now. pic.twitter.com/kBjvB8E6cF
Hidden behind a clown mask, white “peaceful” protester, Timothy O’Donnell foolishly believed he could get away with setting a Chicago police SUV on fire by hiding his identity behind the freakish mask. Unfortunately, for the peaceful protester, his amateur neck tattoo that reads, “PRETTY,” gave him away.
Timothy O’Donnell is now facing federal charges of arson that carry a min. 5-year-sentence.
According to Jason Meisner of the Chicago Tribune: Listening in on the court appearance for Timothy O’Donnell, charged in federal court with torching a Chicago cop car during the weekend unrest downtown. Prosecutor tells the judge he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The mandatory minimum sentence is 5 years.
Police arrested O’Donnell at his apartment on Tuesday in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. According to Fox 40, O’Donnell admitted to the crime.
With the media being furious with towns like Yucaipa and Snohomish where“white men with large guns”were seendefending their neighborhoods, it’s rather remarkable how little attention they’ve given to the Latin Kings street gang aggressively purging their neighborhoods of “looters” in the suburbs of Chicago.
In Cicero, Illinois over the past few days there were multiple shootouts and people were seen ramming trucks into looters’ cars.
Two people were killed and 60 were arrested.
Frankly, it’s hard to say how much of this was targeting “looters” versus just targeting anyone black who happened to be driving through, there seemed to be a mix of both.
That said, there’s no question that if scenes like this occurred in Yucaipa or Snohomish it would be the top story in the country.
WATCH:
The NBC 5 chopper is over a pretty active scene in Cicero where tons of arrests are being made… Except this guy pic.twitter.com/NmlHOYVXX1
Liquor Store in Cicero gets robbed. “There’s more in the back.” Police rush in & find 2 guys hiding in a back storage closet. At least one gun & drugs were found.
Violence rocked suburban Cicero Monday with two people killed and 60 others arrested as “outside agitators” started looting businesses, Cicero police said.
[…] Several people were caught running with stolen items from The El Patron liquor store near 22nd Street and Cicero Avenue, several other businesses were also hit, officials said.
“There were a lot of rioters that just wanted to take advantage of this,” said Ray Hanania. “A lot of them were standing right here on the street throwing rocks and bottles on the street as cars were coming by.”
The Cicero Police Department said more than 100 local officers along with 120 state and county police officers were dispatched to protect residents and businesses. Two people, both men in their 20s, were found shot to death at different locations. Three suspects in one of the shooting have been taken into custody, police said.
[…] Protesters returned to the streets Tuesday just steps from Village Hall, calling attention to what they say has been a growing tension between African American and Latino residents. Organizers said there were widespread reports that Latino gang members were allegedly protecting their neighborhoods and harassing black residents.
[,…] Cicero officials said they were unaware of those allegations.
You can see the second video above that someone in a truck rams a looter’s car then the cops drive up right behind them, get out of their patrol car and chase the looters down. That certainly suggests the two groups were working together.
According to Wikipedia, the suburb of Cicero is 90 percent Hispanic, with 80 percent of residents being of Mexican descent.
“The 1980s and 1990s saw a heavy influx of Hispanic (mostly Mexican and Central American) residents to Cicero,” Wikipedia says. “Once considered mainly a Czech or Bohemian town, most of the European-style restaurants and shops on 22nd Street (now Cermak Road) have been replaced by Spanish-titled businesses.”
Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey is ordering city officials to begin a wide-ranging query of the damage done to the city’s infrastructure from the race riots that began last week after the death of George Floyd, planning on requesting a federal bailout for the city to repair the damages done by “protestors.”
Early preliminary estimates gauge the price tag of property damage from the riots at more than $55 million dollars. Frey is already working with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and representatives Ilhan Omar and Betty McCollum on a potential bailout package for the city.
However, McCollum described a more realistic picture on the prospect of the Twin Cities being granted a federal bailout, which would require approval from the Republican Senate and the signature of President Trump. In an email to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, she said the chances of a bailout were slim. “To be realistic, the odds of that happening are, at best, very difficult.”
Curiously, Frey seemed a lot less concerned about the economic and property damage impacts of the race riots when they were actually happening. Even the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, who proved almost equally inept at preventing mass destruction and controlling the volatile situation, slammed Frey for his refusal to deter the large crowds of criminal rioters, calling the city’s response to the riots an “abject failure.” Frey rebuffed suggestions to deploy the Minnesota National Guard before caving and giving in.
Minnesota Republicans have called upon both Tim Walz and Frey to resign, citing their utter failure to prevent riots that have now caused damages in the tens of millions to everyday Minnesotans and the Twin Cities community.
In a remarkable display of irresponsibility, the liberal Democrats cheering on rioting and property damages aren’t even willing to pay for the damages enacted in their own communities. As it turns out, the buck stops with the American taxpayer, many of whom they’d gladly point to as ones whom they’re protesting.
Talking head decrees that white children should be indoctrinated to feel guilt about their skin color.
By Steve Watson – 6/4/2020
CNN gave airtime to an ‘anti-racist activist’ who suggested that white children should not be allowed to have an ‘innocent’ childhood, but rather be made to feel guilty about their ‘white privilege’ at an early age.
CNN host Poppy Harlow cited a letter sent to her from a school directing white parents how to teach their kids about their ‘white privilege’, and asked Tim Wise“When should parents do this with their kids and how?”
Wise responded that it should be at as young an age as possible, and that white kids need to be repeatedly told they are over privileged in order to sufficiently indoctrinate them.
Leftists have found a way around taking responsibility for their own racism; they just disguise themselves as “anti-racist activists,” and the media rushes to promote their bigoted statements and ideologies. On CNN Newsroom this morning, one such activist, author Tim Wise, told the friendly CNN panel that to be a proper “anti-racist” ally, white parents need to take away their child’s innocence by teaching them about their white privilege and police brutality, at a young age.
Does not negate the fact that Antifa is actually causing the violence.
By Steve Watson – 6/3/2020
Twitter says it has shut down an ‘Antifa’ account that was calling for violence, claiming that those behind it were really ‘white supremacists’.
“This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules.”
The account came to the attention of the company after Donald Trump Jr. noted that it was an example of Antifa engaging in calls for violence.
“Absolutely insane,” Trump Jr. wrote in a now deleted Instagram post, sharing a screenshot of the tweet, “Just remember what ANTIFA really is. A Terrorist Organization! They’re not even pretending anymore,” he added.
Whether this was a fake account or not, it doesn’t excuse the fact that the rioting of the past 4 days has clearly been perpetrated by Antifa thugs and opportunistic looters using ‘Black Lives Matter’ as a cover for their criminal activity.
A protestor just attacked a looter in New York to try to stop him from looting. @BilldeBlasio this is what happens when you refuse to protect the city, citizens put themselves in danger to stop the madness. Start an early curfew and bring in NG or resign! pic.twitter.com/Xq5dPuaYW4
In addition, morons on social media, like gun grabber David Hogg, continue to conflate chicken necked Antifa rioters with World War II veterans and heroes:
A South Philadelphia gun store owner shot and killed a man who had broke into his store early Tuesday morning.
He’s recounting seeing three men using bolt cutters to cut through the padlock locking the fence to the building containing Firing Line Inc. on surveillance camera. After the three men broke into a back window and entered the first floor of the building, the store’s 67-year owner retrieved his Bushmaster M4 AR 15-style rifle, later firing one shot at the group of three men when they made their way upstairs. The store’s owner had realized that the burglars were armed, and fired at the men.
One looter was killed from the shot, and the other two fled.
Philadelphia Police Inspector Scott Smalls is describing the incident as a clear cut example of self defense. After questioning of the gun store owner and review of surveillance camera footage, he won’t face any criminal charges for defending his shop.
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