Those charged with downtown Chicago looting a mix of college students, (cont. below)

By artappraiser on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 8:13pm |

out-of-work parents and convicted felons. But none have obvious ties to Englewood

from @MidnoirCowboy, the undisputed king of bond court coverage: Despite the looting's alleged link to Englewood shooting, none of the defendants in court charged with looting cases have Englewood addresses, and the shooting was never mentioned in court https://t.co/KN6EuL1EsT
— Megan Crepeau (@crepeau) August 14, 2020

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced a five-point strategy to combat looting in the city's business district that includes social media monitoring, speeding up police response and "robust" prosecution https://t.co/jxOzFbU1RN
— CNN (@CNN) August 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 8:17pm

"I don't think she knows what she's doing." @Paulvallas calls out Mayor Lightfoot on her failure to stop #Chicago looting.
My column. @chicagosmayor https://t.co/xS7pUC7Nrc
— John Kass (@John_Kass) August 13, 2020

Paul Vallas is a Democrat with a lot of managerial experience.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 8:21pm

A cry of despair from Chicago. This person is real - she’s shown me her driver’s license. She has preexisting trauma, which is playing a role, but until March she was working and living her life.

Not anymore.

And yes, we talked about making this public. She wants you to know. pic.twitter.com/LK0Ec6TIRG
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 15, 2020

More from Chicago. What I hadn’t understood is the raw fear in the city right now, the feeling violence can strike anywhere, any time. A city can thrive even with high crime (NYC, 1980s), if lawabiding, taxpaying homeowners and the central business district feel decently safe... pic.twitter.com/CFCn5pN6To
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 14, 2020

From Chicago. “I’m scared. I’m disgusted. I’m sad.” In a follow-up note she said she plans to leave within a year. pic.twitter.com/3kjfpCFWyD
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 8:26pm

Liberals mugged by reality? Or we're being mugged both ends of the stick? Is there a 3rd choice out there? The "i'm tired of playing, can i just go home now?" choice?

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 8:46pm

Who’s to blame for clashes at protests yesterday? Activists blame cops, cops blame activists. One of the people who wants apology from city is Berto Aguayo, who worked on Latino outreach for Mayor Lightfoot’s campaign. He says cops attacked protestershttps://t.co/MznXuUDpTj
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) August 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 9:39am

I just don't see pulling umbrellas away as rioting, sorry. It could be the wrong thing to do, but it's not rioting:

Police are rioting in Chicago. #ChicagoProtests pic.twitter.com/o6MPX94JqO
— Unapologetic Leftist Radical (@mlkradical) August 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 9:42am

This is a public school teacher. The tweet quote is of a freelance journalist:

I need all the national media outlets to stop giving space to Mayor Lightfoot on their shows. She’s not progressive. She’s not helping communities or coming up with new ideas to reduce inequity. She’s created a police state in Chicago. @MSNBC @CNN this is her vision for Chicago. https://t.co/rw5XMLm7C3
— Dave Stieber (@D_Stieber) August 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 9:47am

Hubris...#ChicagoProtests Live-streaming ATM looter in custody, cops say: https://t.co/iiTdcEx43F
— Kathleen Curley (@KathleenCurley3) August 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 9:49am

Gucci and Apples and guns, oh my! More looting suspects appear in bond court

@ CWBChicago.com, August 12

[....] Here’s a look at some of the cases from Tuesday’s felony bond court session. In addition to the individuals profiled here, another 10 adults faced looting-related felony charges Tuesday. The average bond required of those defendants is $350. [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 4:21pm

This is the job Lori Lightfoot ran for. It's time for her to start showing she can do it, writes Crain's Editorial Board. https://t.co/rmsxbCKYuL
— Crain's Chicago (@CrainsChicago) August 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 10:06pm

This is an extraordinarily difficult, and important, piece of journalism.
Thank you for listening so closely, and be being willing to be present in pain filled spaces. https://t.co/MNMn3Bfzrf
— Arne Duncan (@arneduncan) August 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 1:52pm

Woman facing 4 felonies after she allegedly live-streamed her Mag Mile looting spree.https://t.co/M7MvKrGmsA
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) August 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 2:50am

Chicago police have released a series of videos to identify suspects from last week’s looting. Here are videos from River North:https://t.co/r7n7hhyFzY
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) August 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 3:01am

Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’

(Always understood that to be a right we all have, but not all of us employ a 13k member police force.)#chicago, anyway https://t.co/ZpZOKUFLZD
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) August 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 6:53pm

No gun, just deadly violence, young black male allegedly stabbing black homeless people in Grant Park and on the trains, starting around the same time protesters were busy trying to pull down "colonialist" statues and stuff.

A serial attacker who has fatally stabbed one sleeping homeless man and critically wounded another in Grant Park this summer has committed two similar assaults aboard the CTA Red Line, police said, most recently on Tuesday morning.https://t.co/OQGjWrr6tQ
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) August 21, 2020

It's got to be the fault of the pigs somehow, must need more social workers....or should we go with a far more libertarian solution, just let all the bad seed trouble kill each other?

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 1:01pm

So ironic, you can if you like blame it on the Columbus statue being close by, maybe anger about the statue made the perp kill this guy,

Both victims from the Red Line attacks survived. But the first known victim, 53-year-old Aaron Curry, did not.

Aaron Curry

Police found Curry fatally stabbed at 1125 South Michigan in Grant Park after a passer-by noticed he had not moved from the same spot for several days around 8 a.m. on July 9.

until it was removed by the mayor July 23 because the police had to spend too much time on protests about it.

Or maybe the perp is really Italian, just dressing like a protester and riding a bike like one to fool everybody

Chicago police are looking for this man in connection with two stabbings of homeless men in Grant Park during July. | CPD

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/21/2020 - 1:24pm

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