It ‘was a planned attack. “Chicago Mayor Lori says Lightfoot organized looting

The day after looters smashed-in window retailers, taken away loads of high-end goods and overwhelmed police officers in downtown Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says that violence was an organized raid and not an angry protest. “When people on Michigan Avenue, in the center showed up with U-Haul trucks and vans, and sophisticated metal cutting equipment used and the methods that were used and how quickly it has ramped up … that was not spontaneous reaction” , said Lightfoot time in his Chicago City Hall on Tuesday in the fifth-floor office. The Unfold chaos on Sunday night and Monday hours before dawn district was initially attributed to a police shooting in the city Southside Englewood. News of the incident along with misinformation that a small shot pinballed social media was what led to “Caravan” drive north of the center, says Lightfoot. “To be sure, there are people who were motivated to join to have many different reasons, and certainly motivated social media messages people were encouraging the city to come,” says Lightfoot. “But the core of what has happened – that the criminal activities … E ‘was a planned attack.” For three hours that night, Chicago was virtually under siege. Hundreds of people flooded the streets. Looters broke into the building and came out with arms full of jewelry, clothing, electronics and other goods. The 911 switchboard was inundated with 1,800 calls between midnight and 03:00, a number that is the rule in these hours in adolescents. Lightfoot says looters knows that the police personnel would be lower than early Monday morning and then take “the moments when you feel they have the best opportunity to make a move.” They were the Magnificent Mile and other shopping streets of the city met with widespread theft, vandalism and destruction. Many of the companies were well-known retailers such as Gucci, Nordstrom and Apple. Some of them were only six weeks earlier fired in the midst of violent unrest erupted after Floyd George, an unarmed black man in police custody Minneapolis died in May. They all had to do with problems with the economic impact of the pandemic COVID-19. Chicago, like many other US cities, is in the middle of an increase in violent crime. Last month, 573 people were killed in the third largest city in America – at least 58 of them teenagers. It ‘been 430 murders registered until July, representing an increase of 51% over the same period last year. Compare that to New York, for example, only 237 murders had, although almost three times the population. In recent days, the police have started Chicago 12-hour shifts and days canceled for all officers until further notice. Monday ‘, the department has sent 400 agents of the center. highway exits were closed and nearly every bridge has been raised to seal the surface. At dawn it was clear Chicago was an American city in need. Broken glass carpeted walkways. Trash swelled main streets below. The police stood guard in riot gear corners. Lightfoot says authorities have yet to identify leaders or people believe that strategized violence. A task force of police detectives, FBI agents and officials with the office of US Attorney are now busy trying to identify the acquisition and analysis of hundreds of hours of footage to the participants security camera. “We’re still going through many, many videotape Go”, says Lightfoot. “But people were quite quickly take cash registers, ATM machines, cutting through the wire mesh, and about to go out and behind the security systems that are quite demanding. This is not your looters media.” The mayor says that rely police discovered all cars in the city center amidst the looting to identify “belonging to a criminal” “operation Every car that we can pursue a resident of Chicago, I found that car and I love it,” says towed. “Not joking.” On State Street, in downtown Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Bill LaMacchia, 54, estimated at about $20,000 damage to its bar and restaurant, Bijan Chicago. broken glass, the part of its revolving door and windows are used crunching under his sneakers while walking. A marauding group had a marble table-top lifted by a massive glass windows that overlook the outdoor terrace. They took almost every bottle of liquor from his shelf. Some of them even sat down and drank the bottle in her terrace seats. The whole scene was captured on his security camera. “It ‘s like a video game was,” said LaMacchia. “They did what they wanted.” Ariel Atkins, on Black Lives Matter Chicago organizers stressed narrative authorities arrested for various offenses during the looting during a rally Monday in support of more than 100 people. Your organization believes unrest on Sunday night was an organic response to the shooting in Littleton, have pointed out, was another example of the mistrust between the police and many American blacks. “The mayor, people can not wait to play by the rules, how to deal with basic dignity denied”, a black-Life Matter Chicago said the statement. “These protests can end only when the safety and welfare of our communities will ultimately be the priority.” Sunday afternoon, police in Englewood, says Latrell All approached, 20, to carry a weapon under suspicion. Police allege Allen was then pulled out a gun and shoots at officers who returned fire. Allen is recovering from multiple injuries from gunshot wounds. “Police say a lot of things,” said Atkins, that the police have not filmed the incident camera body. the police shooting were Lightfoot easier for a larger criminal evasion scheme. He warned threads necessary confusing Americans need to have about racial injustice and give the police with criminal activities that often communities of color. As the first female mayor and openly gay black, it insists Lightfoot, it is important to try to raise their voice of the organizers, activists and citizens in Chicago upend legacy of injustice. But the looting otherwise represented this week at her. “To see young people who are black act in the way they acted like they had to take someone else’s property every right – and not just the big boys that have much insurance, but the small shopkeeper in the neighborhood throughout the city – have so little respect for all the victims that people who make up as they sit like in a store, they all have their obstacles, all the challenges that small businesses, “says Lightfoot. evil “Especially small color business, not only damage business owners regardless, but also employees, who generally are also employees of color. This offends me to the core.” On Row jeweler along Wabash Avenue, the central business district business saw in Chicago, some small businesses wiped out their entire livelihood. Mohammad Ashiq, 60-year-old owner Clinic Watch, watch his laboratory has taken all its inventory, about $900,000 TO DISCOVER, she had been stolen from its glass case. Hundreds of watches for sale and in the process that is set up for the customer were missing. None of insured. “It ‘s my life,” says the nearest L-train grumbled about his store. “Forty years in this field. I am left with only my health.” With that risk hanging over the heads are entrepreneurs reevaluate many now what they should do next. At Wojtek Macniak, 57, and his daughter, Marta, 35, they say they plan their activities to come out, M & M Jewelers, from the ground floor of the shop Row jeweler after looters broke into its second time in two months to build, “We are here 10 years ago because we wanted the foot traffic,” says Marta. “But it’s not worth staying there.” Lightfoot acknowledges Chicago at a turning point, as the increase in violent crime and the suspect gulf widens between the black community and its police. She hopes that she can fill it. “The question is how well we find this opportunity very dark days?” Says Lightfoot. “And we join together because to do so – it sounds like a cliché – but it is so true, we will not survive this time. We will not thrive. We will not budge, get stronger, and better, if we do not unite.”
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