Mayor Lightfoot says ‘people who came for a fight’ hijacked protest at Columbus statue in Grant Park

By artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:40am |

By Fran Spielman & Mitch Dudek @ Chicago Sun Times, updated July 20

While insisting she supports peaceful protests, she said on Friday, “what we saw … is a group of vigilantes” who formed a “phalanx,” then began “pummeling police with projectiles Frozen water bottles, cans, other projectiles.”

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This article has a nice picture of the mess they left behind after being stopped from pulling the huge statue down, an action that probably would have killed a few people:

Will Columbus Statue Come Down After All? Mayor Says City Will ‘Examine’ All City Monuments

Can someone anyone explain to me what good it is to do this to peoples' parks especially while they still have few places to go outside their home? To me, they're the new "elitist pigs." They don't give a shit about "the people".

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:48am

On the same page, as long as the chant is "no justice, no peace", how about some for her, she's been waiting for 25 years and all she gets is more death:

Mother’s 3rd child a victim of Chicago violence: ‘He was my last baby. I want justice’

In 1995, it touched Patricia Pearson’s daughter, who lived with bullets lodged in her shoulder until her death. It claimed the life of a second child in 1999. And last weekend, it claimed the life of Pearson’s last child.

By Maudlyne Ihejirika Jul 20, 2020, 6:00am CDT

Why is a fucking Columbus statue a priority? How did we get here? Where tearing down statues as "neo-colonial" is some kind of magic juju that's gonna fix things? Causing their own dypstopia is what they are doing!

Repeating Keisha Lance Bottoms for the umpteenth time: burning police cars and defacing CNN's building is not protest. GO HOME, GO HOME AND VOTE, LEARN TO VOTE. Real protesters fought for you to be able to vote.

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:57am

But the police are Enemy #1, the colonizers, and it's a priority to continue to hold protests against them, even though a major pandemic is going on as well:

Diamon Eichelburger, 20, was killed in a 7-Eleven parking lot after a car drove up and shot her as she pushed her 1-year-old daughter, Belle, in a stroller. Diamon was four months pregnant.

The fatal shooting was the 106th Kansas City homicide this year. https://t.co/AFUvfIUO3H
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 8:40pm

The colonizers are not trusted. I would not be surprised if no witnesses can me forward.

When police are not trusted, you take matters into your own hands.

Secret police will aggravate the situation.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 9:32pm

I will repeat my callout of Malcolm Gladwell - we learned how to police hard in the very few places that need it, and police compassionately, community-aware, in the vast majority of our country. Not pollyannaish, but compassionate, reasonably efficient And well-behaved.

Most of the police have not been instructed in this. Most are focused on one famous incident where a cop lost his weapon and the perp killed him with his own gun in cold blood. But that's letting an Outlier rule the nest - it makes no sense.

http://dagblog.com/arts/malcolm-gladwell-sandra-bland-talking-strangers-...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 3:50am

Majorities of Americans oppose removing various problematic statues from the public square, would've been interesting to see more nuanced questions (like should there be plaques or clarifying information added to them) https://t.co/Mn70ORPhRs
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 21, 2020

I think the majority of Americans just want to see what’s in that stimulus bill, and make sure they are getting some money to survive the next few months. I have not met a single person in my neighborhood who gives a rats ass about statues. But plenty out here on Twitter
— John DelVento (@delventotime) July 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 2:24pm

breaking: UP TO 16 PEOPLE SHOT AT CHICAGO FUNERAL HOME

The Mayor has been privately conceding that her police resources are stretched thin. Obviously a federal response is controversial. But the status quo is also terrible for people. https://t.co/Ov2EBfE0E1
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 8:27pm

CBS Chicago reporter:

Multiple people shot at 79th/Carpenter

Spoke with people here who said they were inside a funeral home when the shots started.

Spoke to a woman who had blood on her jeans. She didnt know whose blood it was.

I’m told The funeral was for a shooting victim. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/Aun75y7VZk
— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) July 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 8:32pm

ATF on scene here, at least 9 shot and a handful of walk-ins at area hospitals. 79/Carpenter. #chicago pic.twitter.com/oEU0zpO4YL
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 22, 2020

Do I need to point out that the ATF are Federal Government agents? No doubt, though, they are there at the request of the Chicago PD.

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 8:54pm

Chicago's biggest mass shooting in years unfolding now. That's still not enough to warrant the personal appearance of our new police superintendent. https://t.co/IDIurU5v7o
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

Per CPD 14 victims were shot, all of the victims are adults, a person of interest is in custody.#Chicago #ChicagoScanner pic.twitter.com/kyZrcvhjP2
— Tyler LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) July 22, 2020

meanwhile

Now: A vandal is setting off fire equipment inside the high-rise at 320 West Illinois per police and fire on-scene. #ChicagoScanner #Chicago
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

..."TAZER DEPLOYED!" 16th floor stairwell. #ChicagoScanner #Chicago
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

In custody.

"Can you get EMS with a cart up to the 16th floor" for the tazed vandal. #ChicagoScanner #Chicago
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

Dispatch: An Uber driver has been robbed. 410 South Clark. Bonafide. #ChicagoScanner #Chicago
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

Where's the damn social workers?

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 10:09pm

follow up tweets on the missing Police Superintendent Brown in the first tweet above:

Of course, he may be out of town or something, but the new supe always sends out the other guys. When the riots blew up downtown in May, he made a quick visit, had some pix posted to social media, and bailed. It's a pattern.
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

We had big hopes when Brown was hired. His unique personal and professional experiences could make him a change agent. But change won't happen 9 to 5 and that seems to be what Chicago is getting. Accurate or not, that's the appearance and appearances are everything in his job.
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 10:21pm

Yesterday was just the usual: 25 shot, 3 fatally, Monday in Chicago

Five of the victims were wounded in a single shooting in Lawndale.

By Sun-Times Wire Jul 21, 2020, 4:13am CDT

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 9:33pm

Battery victim stabs assailant who attacked him with traffic cone Sedgwick Brown Line station this morning, police say.https://t.co/gIUaI4lxJZ
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

Prosecutors said the 72-year-old victim fought back by spraying deodorant into her attacker’s face. Charges filed.https://t.co/jMlULwG740
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 22, 2020

Monday tweet. Tuesday tweet.#Chicago pic.twitter.com/TXUUzNEjYY
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 21, 2020

Please call Chicago police if you see federal police misconduct. https://t.co/pWbu2c7uWP
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 21, 2020

Maybe city hall should test the fifth floor's air quality. She's been dishing out some wild ones lately.
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 21, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 10:17pm

Chicago is a war zone. This is surveillance footage of the mass shooting that happened today. 14 were shot. pic.twitter.com/iPvDZAoqmy
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 11:54pm

Chaos?

I remain surprised at sense of disorganization w/ CPD response to protests. A group on the move now, supervisor asks for the north side tac teams (019, 020, 024, 025) to move with the group and nobody told OEMC that there were outside units working in the district of protest.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

Now, 025's radio Zone said there were no units from 025 working the protest. Then the tac team for 025 keys up and says, yea we are here at the protest.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

Calling out the wrong direction of travel too.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

They waited til the protest moved into the street and started marching to switch radio zones - in the middle of movement and coordinating a shift of officers on the ground - when the protest had been there 4 hours.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

The bosses also not ... I mean, they're asking for each other by name over the air instead of by beat. It's strange to hear. Or using name and beat interchangeably.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

They asked for salt trucks to move up near the 011th district station, but the protest didn't make it that far north - changed course from what on scene supervisor anticipated - so now Homan Square is without the trucks they had been using to block traffic.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

Protest is on a citywide frequency, not the radio zone for the district. Everyone on protest advised to switch over. District captain asks for summer mobile unit to block traffic. Summer mobile commander says ... They're on the zone, not the citywide, per the district commander.
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) July 25, 2020

As a casual observer, the difference between how CPD responded to NATO 2012 and now is really stark.
— Super Ethical and Always Legal Joe (@JoeTheCop) July 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 9:25pm

Here’s Chicago’s statement on @senmorimoto not being part of the city’s virtual Millennium Park concert series: The artist wanted to criticize Mayor Lori Lightfoot over police issues which the city wouldn’t air because it’s not a forum for debate, officials said. pic.twitter.com/Ilp4tmwf5V
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) July 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 12:16am

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