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This looting in Chicago is pretty nuts. Apparently a social media post went out calling for a caravan of cars to go downtown to start looting.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Aug 10 '20, 06:57

People were driving up with suitcases and ransacking places. Apparently some looters were armed and shooting at police. Saw some video from my office building where the CVS was just ransacked. The self-checkout machines were turned over and smashed. It's over a wide swath as well. From the South Loop, through the Loop, River North, Michigan Ave. and down into Old town and Lincoln Park. It's pretty disconcerting.

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I was wondering how it was 'coordinated' or what the impetus was that lead to it -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:05 12
- police killed someone. over 150 cops, some with automatic weapons, swarmed the place as about 25 people in the neighborhood asked what happened. -- (link) - colin Aug 10, 07:30 11
  - That’s also nowhere near where the looting was. -- nm - spamlet Aug 10, 07:33 8
    - Although one of the common criticisms of riots is "why are they destroying their own stuff?" - to which these guys seemed to say "hey, right!" -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 08:08
    - real point is looting is a message and it has to be sent to people and companies that it will hurt. - colin Aug 10, 07:46 5
      - I fully disagree with the idea that looting is a justifiable or effective tactic. And I don't know know that "organizers" in this context have - pmb Aug 10, 07:59 4
        
        there are 13,000 cops in Chicago... were all 13,000 in another part of town? - colin Aug 10, 08:07 3
        
        I understand it fine. I don't agree with it as a tactic or in its effectiveness. The answer to injustice is not anarchy. It distracts from the - pmb Aug 10, 08:14 2
        
        looting isn't the most effective form of protest, but it still is effective in it's way. -- (edited) - colin Aug 10, 08:25 1
        
        Still not with you. It brings it to the public eye, but not with sympathy for the idea. To the extent that it provokes police to overreact, maybe - pmb Aug 10, 08:32
    - there was looting in Richmond when George Floyd was murdered. what's your point? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:33
  - That escalated quickly -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 07:32 1
    - right? the police response was pretty insane. an onlooker said the man was unarmed at the time he was shot (was a shootout before then).. so... CYA? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:33
this is nuts. -- nm - Diva Aug 10, 07:03
May have begun with a police involved shooting. Police say they were shot at first (we'll see), but shot a guy on the South Side. Apparently a very - pmb Aug 10, 07:03
Ugh. Hope it stops -- nm - the ice Aug 10, 07:01
I was watching the videos, early this morning. Gut wrenching -- nm - Flavorize Aug 10, 07:00 3
- what about it was gut wrenching for you? -- nm - colin Aug 10, 07:35 2
  - I would think a lot of people (myself included) don't equate the answer, or even the response, to an unjustified shooting to be the looting of a CVS. - JaxSean Aug 10, 07:54 1
    - i think the action and the message isn't really for you though - it's for the wealthy and for the police. - colin Aug 10, 08:11
That's insane -- nm - decline Aug 10, 06:59

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