‘It Was a Planned Attack.’ Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot Says Looting Was Organized
Time,
by
W. J. Hennigan
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
8/13/2020 4:32:02 AM
A day after looters smashed-in retailer’s windows, carried away loads of high-end merchandise and overwhelmed police officers in downtown Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the violence was an organized raid and not a demonstration of angry protest.
“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… that wasn’t any spontaneous reaction,” Lightfoot told TIME in her fifth-floor offices at Chicago’s City Hall on Tuesday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
KatieJo 8/13/2020 4:41:27 AM (No. 508088)
A little slow on the uptake Lori. Did she really not know this?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/13/2020 4:49:07 AM (No. 508091)
Brilliant. I tell you this woman is brilliant. Her IQ must be in double digits. s/o
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Petronius 8/13/2020 4:54:05 AM (No. 508093)
How do people this stupid get put into positions of power? Oh yeah, Democrat voters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/13/2020 5:07:47 AM (No. 508098)
So what are you going to do about it?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/13/2020 5:29:06 AM (No. 508105)
Wow! A bunch of Looters with Organizational Skills against a mayor with no sign of intelligence, it's no rocket science to figure out who's in charge.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/13/2020 5:31:36 AM (No. 508108)
PS So if it is "not organized" it's okay to loot, burn, trash, destroy. harm, etc. etc. What an ignorant woman. She just gave them an out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/13/2020 5:35:34 AM (No. 508114)
Business should pull the h#ll out of Chicago, Portland, etc. Riots and looting are getting old and costly for these businesses. Let Chicago, Portland become NYC. The democrats own this disaster.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/13/2020 6:22:39 AM (No. 508148)
Psssstttt... Hey Lori. I have a clue for you. This was all planned. All of it. This was all planned and executed as a get put5 the vote exercise by democrats. Its exactly why YOU and your fellow democrats have yet to condem the violence, rioting and looting. Its also why the media has largely stopped reporting on your "peacefull protests", because its starting to backlash. And its also why the media fails to point out that most of antifa are white kids. Its also why most of the media dont report on the stockpiles of rioting supplies strategically placed.
But you knew that, didnt you? Your just acting surprised because the democrat created monster has turned on its creator.
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I'll take "Obvious" for a thousand, Alex.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
daisey 8/13/2020 6:46:40 AM (No. 508164)
Boy, nothing gets by this person. Her mama didn’t raise no fools...oh wait, never mind.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/13/2020 6:50:27 AM (No. 508169)
Organized, and well financed. Who paid for the sophisticated tools that enabled looters to cut metal grates, bypass security systems, and quickly remove cash registers and ATMs? Certainly not welfare dependent looters. I suspect a sophisticated network of Soros, BLM goons organized, trained and paid the criminal gangs. The looters were well prepared, eager for the green light.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/13/2020 6:56:29 AM (No. 508175)
Apparently, Lori woke up and realized she had drifted off the road. After dreaming it was a peaceful protest (how many times has THAT been?) She jersey awake and steered (temporarily) back onto the road everyone else is using...
... how unfortunate.
Classy, if like Sleepy Joe, you're in to Dementia and other malfunctions.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyVet 8/13/2020 7:20:39 AM (No. 508190)
Some of the financing has to come from drug cartels. Good return on investment, all that looted cash out on the streets.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/13/2020 7:23:14 AM (No. 508191)
She has known this all along. The thing is, it is now catching up with her and some higher-ups are not happy about the mess.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/13/2020 7:33:23 AM (No. 508200)
Excuse the follow-up, please. Further question (rhetorical). Who comprised the parade committee who lined up the cars, vans and U-hauls that arrived with expert timing at the Miracle Mile, and parked in formation at a makeshift loading zone to transport stolen goods from the scene?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
gone2pot 8/13/2020 7:50:25 AM (No. 508208)
Yeah Lori, but while they were stealing giant flat screens, they still couldn't breathe. Racist!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
valinva 8/13/2020 7:59:19 AM (No. 508217)
Lightfoot is upset because they stole from minority owned businesses but not very upset that they stole from the big stores. This statement alone proves that she is not fit for office. She it completely on board with the entire BLM reparations narrative if they would only stick it to the rich.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/13/2020 8:01:21 AM (No. 508221)
Mayor Lori only seems to be worried about minority owned businesses and employees. She doesn't care about the big businesses like Nordstrom or Coach because they uh ave insurance. She will care when the giant square foot stores close and there are lots of giant empty stores to go along with the s empty small storefronts. Imagine Watertower Place empty or Navy Pier shut down for good because you don't care about the bigger businesses.
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The mayor prefers unorganized hapless thieves, who stumble upon a store and decide to rob, without prior planning!
Here is another tip for her. The stores left untouched in a block might be the ones laundering the cartel's drug money.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/13/2020 8:09:07 AM (No. 508231)
So were the riots following the fall of St. George and subsequent Antifa and BLM looting and burning and statue toppling. Blacks were used as convenient scapegoats. Sherlock Holmes she ain't.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/13/2020 8:51:34 AM (No. 508283)
'Last to Know' Lori...
Riots occurring across the United States at the same time are not spontaneous. They are organized by BLM and Antifa. They themselves admit it.
The Mayor of Chicago isn't very bright or honest, is she? Sadly, she is a reflection of the people that elected her. This is what the people of Chicago wanted, and they got it. Now they will have to live with it.
As the productive people empty out of Chicago, the city will turn into a giant junkyard, and Lori will be its Queen. The people that stay behind will be happy with that.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/13/2020 9:00:04 AM (No. 508303)
Common sense will tell you that the particular Chicago looting and rioting was designed and planned by BLM using social media to change the so-called “Miracle Mile” shopping district into just another Miserable Mile as we have seen after criminal and anti-social Black rioting, looting, and burning down businesses for decades all over the country. That is clearly evidenced by what happened quickly on the ground as caravans of motor vehicles including U-Haul vehicles arrived at the shopping center with the looters to carry away the looted merchandise in a semi-organized manner.
Following that organized criminal activity BLM leaders came out in public claiming that the looting was justified because Black lives matter more then the high end businesses located in that shopping district that sell high end fashion items and other merchandise to wealthy people. Going on claiming that hungry Black people have a right to loot such businesses and steal merchandise such as Air Jordan athletic shoes that cost hundreds of dollars a pair, but selling those shoes is only viable because the Black “community” serves as a retail market for those exorbitantly priced shoes as a social status symbol in the Black “community”. In Black “community” jargon such looting is considered to be “Good Trouble” as part of the seemingly dark age anti-social philosophy that is commonly practiced in degenerate ghetto culture.
Common sense will tell you that such rioting and looting is only going to get worse in the Democrat run inner cities the coming months, and maybe out to the suburbs, as the leftist and liberal Democrats with a wink and a nod, BLM, and the Antifa type anarchists continue to try to cow enough Americans to vote for the ultra leftist Biden-Harris ticket in the November election.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/13/2020 9:04:54 AM (No. 508309)
The Chicago deep state must have told Lighthead the riots are costing the dims a lot of votes and that the dim candidates are falling way behind. Similar to how the Portland deep state told Mayor Ted Wheeler to start cleaning up his mess.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/13/2020 9:05:34 AM (No. 508310)
what she meant to say it was a planned republican attack on the businesses. the great thing about propaganda is that it can be spun to fit any narrative. the democrats have it down to a fine point thanks to barry soetoro and his eight years in the Oval Office.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 8/13/2020 9:13:17 AM (No. 508320)
Well Lori words are cheap, actions mean something. Get a grip and do something!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/13/2020 9:28:59 AM (No. 508346)
It's so nice to know that the caring people of Chicago think so much of their handicapped citizens that they elected one to be mayor. How sweet.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
donnaclaire 8/13/2020 9:40:27 AM (No. 508360)
The Mayor is one scary individual - in many ways.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/13/2020 10:07:45 AM (No. 508393)
New Orleans after Katrina was the (recent) template. Same thing happened there. Well armed and equipped gangs showed up to break into jewelry stores and other high end stores. No people, no police, no armed rooftop Koreans ... ripe fruit there for the taking.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/13/2020 10:12:09 AM (No. 508398)
In the article, you find Arabic and Polish names of shopkeepers. They have put their whole lives into their businesses. And their lives are being destroyed by BLM. These are not the alleged WASPs (White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants) that the BLM leader claims them to be. No. They are of immigrant families. (Actually all of us are of immigrant families unless we are completely Native American.)
I support black folks. I believe in black folks. I love black folks. I support them, believe in them, and love them because they are made in the image and likeness of God -- and so are all other sorts of folks. But BLM isn't about treating people right. It is about criminal activity and communism -- which are the same thing, IMO.
That Ariel witch from BLM can rot in hell as far as I am concerned.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
walcb 8/13/2020 10:13:31 AM (No. 508399)
Towing the cars that were used in the rioting is a good start but most of the cars were likely either stolen or were being bought on credit so the loan companies will pay for much of this tactic.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/13/2020 10:14:11 AM (No. 508400)
This is reminiscent of how Soros spent his teen years in Nazi controlled territory.
He'd rat on the local jersey, then pick over their things while the Gestapo hauled them off to the concentration camps. He seemed quite proud of this, in a talk show interview he had and couldn't understand why everyone was upset with his monstrousness. He doesn't talk about that, these days, but I'm sure he remembers it.
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She took the bait.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/13/2020 10:15:51 AM (No. 508402)
Jews not jersey!! Damn spellchecker
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/13/2020 10:44:19 AM (No. 508432)
Hey mayor.... you're a day late and a dollars short... why don't you send your private security detail to protect Michigan Avenue business..... Soon people will be leaving Chicago en masse...just like New York....many of us left years ago when obama was elected.... in fact stats prove 800,000 of us Chicago taxpayers packed up and headed to peaceful country west....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/13/2020 11:17:53 AM (No. 508475)
At least Lesbian Lightfoot got rid of that offensive Christopher Columbus statue. Viva Karl Marx!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/13/2020 11:21:57 AM (No. 508482)
Oh chit, they hit the rich part of town. Somebody call the cops.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/13/2020 11:26:12 AM (No. 508490)
Sorry, mini rant. If George or Floyd or whoever had all the stuff his BLM supporters have stolen he could retire to the south of France.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
padiva 8/13/2020 11:57:02 AM (No. 508532)
Stop and think for a moment, folks.
With the organizational skills of these looters, they make BO look like an absolute failure as a community organizer.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/13/2020 12:09:29 PM (No. 508547)
Well, duh. All she had to do was watch what happened in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica to know that the looting has been and will continue to be organized. Those of us who watched it on TV didn’t need someone to explain it as we saw cars lined up, waiting to pull up in front of a store and pick up either merchandise brought out or a looter carrying merchandise. They’d pull away; another car would pull up. And on and on.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/13/2020 12:32:00 PM (No. 508580)
Just brilliant Beetlejuice just brilliant. When did you get your first clue Sherlock.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/13/2020 1:04:03 PM (No. 508625)
Well Duh Sherlock. Of course it was. And has been all along. Welcome to the party Mayor Beetlejuice.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 8/13/2020 1:30:10 PM (No. 508650)
Immediately after the convention Biden will make a hard right turn from the extreme far left fringe to the moderate left, particularly on law and order issues.Their internal polls must that show that the continuous riots with Democrats simultaneously calling to defund the police is costing them any chance with moderate and moderate left voters in flyover country. Sure it will tick off the far left wing Democrat base, but what can the do about it, vote for Trump?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 8/13/2020 1:30:56 PM (No. 508653)
A deviant
An idiot
A lousy mayor
A squirrel-faced liar
VERSUS
A violent Marxist gang of feral animal bastids
Who ya got?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
DVC 8/13/2020 1:45:15 PM (No. 508677)
Shocking!
Not.
BLM and antifa plan their actions. They WANT violence. They WANT destruction.
This should not be surprising to anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 8/13/2020 1:54:36 PM (No. 508689)
Forgot to add...
Black Looters Matter
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 8/13/2020 3:06:09 PM (No. 508756)
This woman is stupid on steroids!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
LtE126 8/13/2020 4:17:23 PM (No. 508827)
Notice how she's changed her tune a little since Big Daddy sent the feds in? The weekend he did that, murders slowed to about 3 a weekend. That's a triumph here 'cause it's usually 3 or 4 times that. The feds are grabbing felons and bypassing Kim Foxx the SA and that system entirely. Took many of the gang bosses in too. It's working. The only thing Chicago ran was the riots last week, and you see how that turned out. NOW she's getting yappy and getting in Kim Foxx' face. She's trying to save face.
Trump/Pence '20
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
LtE126 8/13/2020 4:21:15 PM (No. 508830)
And one more thing...I'll bet he's gonna do alot better in this state than last time...not saying he'll win it, but it'll be alot closer. And if that can happen here in this blue cesspool, Jonah's gonna be crying in his pablum this fall
2 people like this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/13/2020 5:03:00 PM (No. 508861)
WHO Rented the U-hauls?
WHO bought the power tools?
WHO had the pallets of bricks delivered to the 'spontaneous' riot sites?
.... get out the RICO laws and GET TO WORK!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
4Justice 8/13/2020 6:13:28 PM (No. 508921)
Lori, did you not get the memo ahead of time? Your leftist buddies should have kept you in the loop!
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
mizzmac 8/13/2020 8:05:03 PM (No. 509065)
Well, duh.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
or gate 8/13/2020 8:36:55 PM (No. 509090)
Duh.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
or gate 8/13/2020 8:39:56 PM (No. 509097)
It all an attempt to take over the United States Of America by fear and force.
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Well Lori, under your watch. Your fault.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Smart11344 8/14/2020 2:04:12 PM (No. 510027)
You bet it was. Organized by the BLM.
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