Re: Chicago's looting spree was 'a planned attack,' Mayor Lightfoot says

On 8/16/20 5:33 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicagos-looting-planned-attack-lightfoot
> 
> The recent looting of downtown Chicago was “organized criminal activity,” 
> with people planning ahead enough to bring U-Haul vans and equipment to 
> help them ransack stores, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
> 
> The hundreds of looters – described by officials as “car caravans” full – 
> who made their way into Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Gold Coast and Irving 
> North neighborhoods on Sunday night into Monday morning were part of “a 
> planned attack,” Lightfoot told TIME for an interview that published 
> Wednesday.
> 
> Chicago Ronald McDonald House lootedVideo
> CHICAGO BOUTIQUE LOOTED FOR SECOND TIME IN THREE MONTHS
> 
> “When people showed up on Michigan Avenue in the downtown area with U-Haul 
> trucks and cargo vans, and sophisticated equipment used to cut metal, and 
> the methods that were used, and how quickly it got spun up,” Lightfoot 
> told the outlet, “that wasn’t any spontaneous reaction.”
> 
> More than 100 people have been arrested so far as a result of the looting 
> spree. Police said at a Monday press conference that officials believe the 
> events were spurred by a police-involved shooting in Englewood earlier in 
> the day.
> 
> CHICAGO LOOTING TRIGGERS OVER 100 ARRESTS, 13 OFFICERS HURT AS MAYOR WARNS 
> CRIMINALS: 'WE ARE COMING FOR YOU'
> 
> Black Lives Matter activists defend Chicago looting as 'reparations'Video
> At the scene of the Englewood shooting, "tempers flared fueled by 
> misinformation as the afternoon turned into the evening," said Chicago 
> Police Superintendent David Brown at the time. The false information 
> included that a child was shot, and that the wounded man was on the ground 
> when police fired upon him, according to multiple previous reports.
> 
> CHICAGO POLICE HUNT MEN SEEN LOOTING SUNGLASS HUT ON VIDEO
> 
> Police later discovered social media posts that encouraged looting 
> downtown, officials said Monday.
> 
> “To be sure, there are people that did join in that were motivated by lots 
> of different reasons, and certainly were motivated by social media posts 
> encouraging people to come downtown,” Lightfoot told TIME. “But the core 
> of what happened — that’s organized criminal activity… It was a planned 
> attack.”
> 
> Chicago looting eyewitness says nearly 1,000 people ransacked designer 
> stores, 'it was nuts'Video
> Earlier this week, a U-Haul spokesperson told Fox News the company’s 
> equipment is designed and intended for people to use during residential 
> moves. The company is now working with authorities.
> 
> “Customers utilizing our equipment are expected [to] adhere to local, 
> state and federal laws. Any violation of these laws is also a violation of 
> the customer contract and our policies,” the spokesperson said in an 
> email. “U-Haul employs a robust investigations unit that works closely 
> with law enforcement to see that individuals engaged in criminal activity 
> involving our equipment are captured and brought to justice.”
> 
> 
> 
Mayor Lightfoot isn't the brightest bulb in the box is she?


Maybe only a few lumen brighter than the retarded little 16 year old
"Gretta" who lectures us all on the danger of FAKE GLOBAL WARMING....


I guess the people of Chicago got the Mayor they deserve.   They elected
her.

Now the question is will they survive her... hundreds already haven't.




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