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Old 08-10-2020, 7:20am   #1
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Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.

The officers had stopped several people on Lake Street near Michigan Avenue when shots were fired from a passing car around 4:30 a.m., nearly five hours into the widespread vandalism, according to police spokesman Tom Ahern. No officers were shot but a squad car was hit, he said. It was not known if anyone in the gunman’s car was shot.

Ahern said other officers were injured through the night. Earlier, an officer was seen slumped against a building by Grand and Wabash avenues as other other cops tended to him. It was unclear what had happened to him. Ahern had no details on the injuries.

The looting began shortly after midnight as people darted through broken store windows and doors along Michigan Avenue carrying shopping bags full of merchandise. Cars dropped off more people as the crowd grew. At least one U-Haul van was seen pulling up.

Police made “a lot of arrests” and recovered at least one gun, officials said. One woman with shopping bags in her hands fell on the sidewalk as an officer was chasing her. Another woman appeared to have been pepper-sprayed. A rock was thrown at a squad car.

The looting seemed to be centered in Streeterville and North Michigan Avenue, but some looting was reported on State Street in the Loop and on the Near North Side. By 4 a.m. police appeared to be getting things under control.

But some vandalism continued into the daylight hours, and the CTA suspended train and bus service into downtown during the morning rush, while the Illinois state police blocked off ramps from expressways. Bridges across the Chicago River were raised, except for the one on LaSalle Street for emergency vehicles.

People were seen running out of a PNC Bank, its windows smashed, at Huron and State streets. Down the block, other stores, including a Sally Beauty Supply, had been cleaned out by vandals. Other parts of downtown, including around Grand and Wabash avenues, were littered with trash.

Crowds repeatedly tried to bash in the windows of the Omega watch store at Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue.

“The watch store,” one officer said. “They’re gonna get it eventually.”

A group of people went in and out through a broken window of the Louis Vuitton store along Walton Place across the street from the Drake Hotel. A squad car drove by and the group ran away.

But as the car rode off, at least one person tried to go into the shop. The police returned.

“Go home!” One cop shouted.

“You go home!” Someone shouted, apparently back at the officer.
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Only way to stop this is with a lot of arrests with severe punishment. Use store surveillance cameras to identify the looters and go get them.
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Only way to stop this is with a lot of arrests with severe punishment. Use store surveillance cameras to identify the looters and go get them.
Nope. Close up all the stores.


Make it a ghost town.
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Should be plinked on sight.
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Nope. Close up all the stores.


Make it a ghost town.
Won't work. They would just tear down anything put up to keep them out.

The prospect of severe punishment would be the only thing they would understand.
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“Go home!” One cop shouted.

“You go home!” Someone shouted, apparently back at the officer.
I don't know why this strikes me as funny but it does. It's like two eight year old boys arguing on the playground.
"You're dumb."
"No. YOU are."

Buncha savages in that town. Minneapolis is on this path too I'm afraid.
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Won't work. They would just tear down anything put up to keep them out.

The prospect of severe punishment would be the only thing they would understand.
A lot of these animals don't care if they go to jail. Jail is like a badge of honor to them. We need to bring back public hangings.
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A lot of these animals don't care if they go to jail. Jail is like a badge of honor to them. We need to bring back public hangings.
PPV sledgehammer fights. 49 sledgehammers, 50 contestants, winner stays alive but in prison.
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Kill them all .....but ......even God doesn't want to sort them out
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Maybe it's getting to the time to send in the military with permission to use deadly force if necessary to stop those idiots.
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A lot of these animals don't care if they go to jail. Jail is like a badge of honor to them. We need to bring back public hangings.
Public hangings where you bring your entire family to watch including the kids. Why build more prisons when you can clean them out to make room for more trash.
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Should be plinked on sight.
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Kill them all .....but ......even God doesn't want to sort them out
Oh He will sort them out all right - he'll left-swipe them all straight to Hell.
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