Listening to the Chicago police scanner, this is just insane... it’s like an audio drama about some strange alternative reality. They’re talking about people walking out of Walgreens with shopping carts full of pharmaceuticals. #ChicagoRiots
“Does anyone know if -?- bridge is down?”
“Yes, I think that was one they gave us”
This dispatcher is doing God’s work, I swear.
Looted rental vehicles and a passed out person, right in front of one of my old employers’ towers. This is just nuts
Geeeeeze.... security in stores calling in burglaries, then not picking up when dispatch calls them back. This is Dark Knight shit (waitthatwasfilmedinchicagolol)
These police sound so depressed... remind me never to complain about milwaukee ever again.
Calming down in this district, gonna switch to see more (just some hearsay about some people looting a Chase Bank)
People looting a liquor store with a vehicle in zone 12 (districts 15 and 25)
May or may not have found a deceased male in a car with smashed windows (zone 4 - Districts 1 and 18)
Dispatch reporting more looting in a different area, police I believe just said “were kind of bare over there”. I don’t know what they’re meant to do. If they aren’t allowed to act, all they can do is watch and try and arrest people as they separate from the large groups.
Oh boy. I’m not a super religious person, but I’m praying for you guys in Chicagoland. Our cities are pretty amazing, but this is all just confirming to me that humans in cities are two days away from chaos at all times.
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I've been all over the state, and am very close to people on both ends of the political spectrum. Everyone is sick of covid, and while the left is predominantly more "afraid" of the virus and would probably accept further lockdowns, the majority of people just want to work again.
I'm not looking forward to the number of ODs, suicides, and alcohol-related deaths that would result if our state shut down for the whole winter to the degree that other states/countries have done.
If you start limiting gatherings, banning social activities, and interfering with midwesterners' ability to cope with winter on an emotional level, people will die. Not to mention people who lost their jobs ending up homeless in a place that hit -40 F last year.
Well, they started early so here we go: LOUISVILLE PROTEST/RIOT THREAD 🧵
A fire was lit beside the Justice center's plywood window-coverings. Sherriffs came out to put it out and were pelted with water bottles/garbage. LMPD on-route.
Gas released in front of the building, crowd getting restless. More trash fires in the street.
They have cars riding with them heading toward the freeway. One guy on the megaphone calling shots.
"THIS IS NOT A PARADE. WE HAVE A JOB TO DO. If you have a SHIELD, go to the PERIMITER."
"We got good numbers. We can take it."
"Don't run. We're taking the whole fucking thing"
"Whose streets?"
"OUR STREETS"
They're coordinating like Antifa ran things in Portland. Sending bikes/cycles to the front to cut the way, shields on the front and sides, creating a buddy system and telling them to "Take a break, drink water, stay ready".
This was hard to watch. I saw watching this live as it happened, and I can only imagine what it was like to have been there. There is additional footage that proves this was self defense. But where have we heard that before lately... 1/ fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/4…
Kyle did nothing wrong, and the fact that he is the only one from that night being charged with a crime is an obscene stain on our legal system, and I am ashamed of my state, myself, and my fellow citizens for letting this happen. 2/
How many people have to face the justice of this mob? A mob that screams from this hilltops that they are the oppressed when their mere whim is enough to put a man to death. This power they weild is reasonless, malicious, unsistainable, and profoundly unamerican. 3/
You know what's fucked right up about this? This is meant to "reduce gun crime". That means this governor believes
*only poor people commit crimes with firearms, and all poor people should therefore be unable to defend themselves by removing legal ownership from the situation*
This will allow criminals (who *have money*) to buy weapons legally while removing the option for low-income or disadvantaged people in their communities. Not only that, but that's under the assumption that you *can't get a gun illegally*. Shocker, you can.