Discussion: 'Stop The Killing!': Anti-Violence Protestors Shut Down Chicago Freeway

You can block the freeway, but be damn sure you don’t kneel for the national anthem!/s

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I just wish stories on Chicago, where violence is a definite issue, would place it on a per-capita basis.

For example in 2018, of the 30 cities with the highest murder rate on a per-capita basis, Chicago comes in # 25.

But all you hear Dotard yapping about is the murder rate in Chicago.

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To the mod who just deleted that post, thank you.

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So you think you can solve the problem of violence by deleting posts that tell the truth that no one wants to discuss?

They shut down the Dan Ryan. THE DAN RYAN!

Well played.

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The Right loves to use Chicago as it’s counter-example. Mainly because the city tried to ban gun sales and the NRA went batshit over that.

Part of the city’s problem is CPD has been running awok for years, and they can’t handle the problems in the city because they are fueling some of the problems.

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Well there’s that, and then there’s the fact that Chicago has been under Democratic leadership for years. Not always a good thing.
Then there’s the number of A/A that moved up north and settled there.
Then there’s the fact that except for Chicago the rest of IL is mostly Republican, but then Chicago is the economic engine.
Then there’s the IL Nazis, and we all hate IL Nazis.

So I’m trying to remember/figure out in the US the largest cities are run by Democrats. The largest economic driver states are they not blue too?

It was a large, effective protest but handled in an orderly fashion - i.e. intentionally on a Saturday to avoid work delays for most folks; certain lanes were closed but traffic did get through; our governor started threatening arrests although it was a permitted protest but the mayor and the police (!) sided with the protesters. Yes, it was well played.

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The problems you cite may be very real problems but they are not confined to the African-American community and for you to frame your comment in such a way as to make it appear to be so is, yes, racist.

Why don’t you concern yourself with fixing that very real problem and confronting that truth?

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Completely OT:

Flipping through the channels I had the rare treat to see The Mike Huckabee Show on TBN.

Taped semi-live from Branson, Misery (correct spelling; not a typo), it combined the vacuousness of people who would visit Branson with the honesty of LEDs, black lights and cognitive dissonance. Oh, and it featured a dog act.

LOL

Conservative students draw dozens to nationwide pro-gun rallies planned for months
Conservative students answered March’s massive nationwide March For Our Lives rallies today, holding an event called March For Our Rights.

The events had been in the works for months and been promoted by rightwing media and were planned for 13 cities around the country, with the largest rally in Los Angeles where Xena Amarani, the USC student who leads the group lives.

However, even Fox News noted the sparse turnout.

The Los Angeles rally drew an estimated 250 people, with other rallies in Phoenix and Chicago drawing a few dozen.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/conservative-students-draw-dozens-nationwide-pro-gun-rallies-planned-months/

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Most CPD officers are unprofessional at best. Some, of course, are good and do care, but many are ill-mannered and argumentative. Some unfortunately are criminal. What was so telling was when Laquan McDonald was shot and a false story was given, every single cop that knew the truth went along with the deception. Unfortunately, CPD officers can be relied upon to lie when they feel circumstances call for it.

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They all filed false reports. The Corporate Counsel got the judge to withhold the dashcams. Rahm pretended nothing happened. The State Attorney slow-walked the investigation. The Police Chief rolled with the cover story. As a result of a journalist doing his job and following a whitsleblower’s lead, the real story broke. Most of those officers who filed false reports are gone. The police chief is gone (but making noise like he wants to run for mayor)? The Cook County State’s Attorney was voted out of office (she stated that she would not resign and if the citizens of Cook County wanted to, they could vote her out, so we did). The Corporate Council was fired. The only one that survived was Rahm, and he successfully hid his role in all this just long enough to get re-elected.

Chicago is probably still paying out close to $5M a year in compensation for bad acts by the CPD. Homan Square should have been a huge, high-profile investigation with a lot of impact, but it has been effectively swept under the rug three years ago.

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I can guarantee one thing: Every single person inconvenienced by this moronic protest is now opposing the idiots who did the protest.

Shutting down highways alienates possible allies and annoys friends. It does nothing.

In addition to stupidity, I am sure that this weekend another number of black folks will be killed by other black folks, and when the cops ask for help, there will be none. No snitchin’ is the gang-banger’s best friend.

When you deal with criminals, who are bad people, you need to be a tough person to get folks to come along.

The South Side is pretty much a no-go zone at this point, where gangs run the city, and shoot whoever they want.

CPD murder solving rate in 2017 was 17.5% The cops basically decided to get paid for doing nothing.

So know someone you want to murder? I know a place where the crime will NOT be investigated.

Also, many if not most of the cops live in the very few Republican areas of Chicago. So draw your own conclusions. This is not Democrat incompetence. This is more - you can’t do anything to me, I’m a Republican.

But indeed all of it started with NRA winning court cases against Chicago.

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I think Obama’s presence there once upon a time also has something to do with it…

“Chicago police said the city had 252 homicides and 1,100 shootings in the first six months of this year, a decrease from the same period last year. But those crimes have been heavily concentrated in predominantly black, low-income neighborhoods.”

Yeppers. All tham shootings. All tham homicides. And I guess the implication is that Chicago police caused all the shootings.

Such virtue-signaling.

The reason that there have been all those shootings is that, for the South Side of Chicago, BLDM, and the only time BLM is when it can be used to bash whitey.

Wow, you know NOTHING about the South Side.