Provide some evidence that the police misrepresented what occurred..... I will be happy to change my mind if new evidence comes forward.
$1M bond set for man charged in Englewood police shooting that may have sparked Chicago looting Latrell Allen, 20, is charged with attempted 1st degree murder for firing at officers https://abc7chicago.com/englewood-shooting-police-20-year-old-shot-by-bond/6366429/
How to deal with riot organizers... https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...na-arata-charged-with-five-felonies/24589127/
Portland Residents Complain As Destruction Bleeds Into Their Neighborhoods https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/12/portland-riots-residential-areas-kenton-black-lives-matter/ Portland residents are complaining after agitators started fires, sprayed graffiti and sparred with police in their neighborhoods, The Oregonian reported. Police pushed demonstrators into Portland residential neighborhood Kenton after agitators set fire to a police union building, according to The Oregonian in a Tuesday report. The demonstrators blocked a road with picnic tables and road barrier signs. The confrontation with police lasted past midnight, according to the outlet. “The violence and fires have definitely disturbed my family,” Kenton resident Billy Burch told The Oregonian. “Having to close all of the windows so that tear gas doesn’t get in isn’t fun as we don’t have air conditioning.” “Lots of people worked hard to make our little neighborhood pleasant and to help the local businesses stay open,” one Reddit user wrote in a post about Kenton, The Oregonian reported. “Now it’s trashed. This was not a BLM protest, this was a tantrum by a bunch of entitled kids,” the user continued. Two elderly women in their 70s were reportedly doused with paint in East Portland, another residential area, after they confronted vandals, according to the outlet. The mob also damaged a dumpster outside of a black-owned restaurant called Po’Shine’s, according to the local outlet. What a dumpster has to do with Black Lives Matter, I don’t know,” Po’Shine’s Head Chef James Bradley told The Oregonian. “If people want to protest, find your hands busy doing something for the people that you’re protesting for.” There’s a blueprint, and the blueprint is called the civil rights movement,” he added. Federal agents, who were tasked with protecting the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse, withdrew from Portland on July 31, according to The Washington Post. After a brief reprieve, rampant protesting and rioting resumed, Fox News reported. Riots in the city follow the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody. Portland is approaching its 80th consecutive day of rioting, according to The Oregonian.
Just another night in Portland... Riot declared in downtown Portland and protesters tear-gassed https://www.cbsnews.com/news/riot-declarted-portland-oregon-protesters-tear-gassed/ Police declared a riot late Wednesday night after hundreds of demonstrators returned to downtown Portland after more than a week when the biggest events were held in other parts of the city, reports the CBS affiliate there, KOIN-TV. As many as 300 people had gathered by about 9:30 p.m. The gathering remained largely peaceful until about 11 p.m., when a couple of small fires were lit near the federal courthouse. A fake pig's head and a Trump flag were set ablaze in the middle of a major thoroughfare. Some fireworks and other objects were thrown over the fence surrounding the courthouse. Meanwhile, private vehicles kept traffic from entering the protest area. Less than half an hour later, police warned the crowd over a speaker that criminal activity was occurring near the courthouse and needed to stop. Portland police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly at 11:30 p.m., cautioning that those who failed to leave would be subject to the use of tear gas, crowd control agents or other impact weapons. They called it a riot just minutes before midnight. Large numbers of Oregon State Police troopers, Multnomah County Sheriff's Office deputies and Portland police officers took to the streets to disperse the crowds, making arrests and deploying tear gas as they moved. KOIN reporters witnessed authorities pepper spraying at least one person. The vast majority of the demonstrators had dispersed by 1 a.m. Wednesday's planned demonstrations followed a Tuesday night with no arrests and no physical clashes between crowd members and police. Protesters have gathered each night in Portland since the killing of George Floyd in late May. Floyd, a Black man, died with a White officer pressing his knee to Floyd's neck. Protests had dwindled before President Trump sent federal agents to the liberal city early last month. They've since withdrawn. Demonstrations over the last week had been much smaller and targeted local police facilities.
It's time for some consequences for looting. It is time to shut the violent looters down. Police union urges drastic action on looters: ‘Bring tow trucks in. Take all the cars. Take away their escape.’ Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara says until looters realize “they’re not going to be allowed to just roam and destroy,” they’ll keep coming back. “Until you really get serious about putting the hammer down, they’re only gonna be bolder and bolder and bolder.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-h...wn-loop-gold-coast-curfer-catanzara-lightfoot Downtown Chicago will be ravaged again by caravans of looters until Mayor Lori Lightfoot imposes a curfew and strictly enforces it by impounding vehicles used to haul away stolen merchandise after using city trucks to pin them in. That’s the pointed assessment from Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara after a second round of looting in less than three months gutted huge swaths of downtown, River North and Lincoln Park. “Car caravans are the biggest problem. They can relocate all of their criminal behavior two miles away within five minutes. We can’t deploy 400 officers two miles away in that same amount of time. They can go where the police are not in a split second. By the time we show up there, we get the stragglers when the main force has already moved on to the next target,” Catanzara said Wednesday. “If they want to get really serious, enact a curfew coincided with an ordinance that allows the officers to impound these vehicles. Charge ’em hefty, exorbitant fees to get their cars back. $2,500 if your car gets impounded. Until they get the message that they’re not going to be allowed to just roam and destroy, it’s not gonna stop. It’s only gonna get worse and worse.” With access to downtown sealed off for the “foreseeable future,” Lightfoot has assured community leaders and neighborhood business owners that city trucks would be used to protect local commercial corridors. That’s what she did after being accused of protecting downtown at the expense of South and West Side neighborhoods during the first round of looting. On Wednesday, Catanzara urged the mayor to use those “city assets” to protect Chicago’s marquee shopping district as well. “You’ve got all of these Streets and San trucks available to you. You could go down Michigan Avenue. Block off the street so these cars can no longer leave,” Catanzara said. “Bring five Streets and San trucks. You block off access north and south. And you pin all these cars in in a certain block. Bring tow trucks in. Take all the cars. Take away their escape. Until you really get serious about putting the hammer down, they’re only gonna be bolder and bolder and bolder. And people who would just scream and yell on the sidelines are now partaking in this criminal behavior. It’s only encouraging more people to take advantage of an opportunity.” The mayor’s office responded by accusing Catanzara of making suggestions “without a remote understanding of the facts.” The statement noted that “infrastructure assets,” including “salt and tow trucks,” are already being used to keep all Chicago neighborhoods safe and that vehicles involved in Monday’s looting caravans are already being impounded. “The city is utilizing every last resource to not only prevent looting but ensure those who commit the kinds of criminal acts we saw on Monday are brought to justice. This includes deploying a heavier police presence along Chicago’s shopping districts, restricting access to the downtown area overnight, deploying more than 100 Transportation, Streets and Sanitation and other infrastructure trucks and resources along our commercial corridors,” the mayor’s office said. “On top of establishing a special team of detectives to identify suspects, stolen merchandise and ensure offenders are held accountable, the Department is also already impounding vehicles involved in the looting on Monday.” The mayor and Catanzara have a frosty relationship made worse by the union’s president request that President Donald Trump send federal help to Chicago to fight violent crime. Earlier this week, the mayor likened the coordinated caravans of looters who overwhelmed police to “organized crime” and said she would “not spare any expense” to bring them to justice. “We can’t allow criminals to tarnish their legacy, their businesses, but more importantly their hope. I’m not gonna let that happen. And we are going hard at the people who are responsible,” she said. “It’s not opportunistic and spontaneous when you already have U-Haul vans and cargo vans and you come equipped with precision tools to break into stores, to break into safes, to haul off cash registers and when you are coming with arms to fight off the police who are out there breaking up the looting. While there absolutely was a layer of opportunistic individuals, this was also organized crime. And we are going to break these crews and these rings and we are gonna bring them to justice. That is what we owe the residents of this city. Period.” Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) has argued Lightfoot “owns” the second round of looting because police “had intelligence that this was going to happen, yet it happened.” He has questioned the “strategy and tactical decision-making of the senior command who were unprepared” for the second assault in less than three months. Now, Hopkins is demanding that Lightfoot and Police Supt. David Brown scour the country to find and hire law enforcement experts who specialize “in tactical plans for dealing with widespread social unrest.” “We need a plan crafted by people with that level of expertise. Much like we did during the [2012 NATO] summit. We don’t have that and it shows every time we have hundreds, if not thousands of criminals taking over the streets. We don’t have a specific tactical response to deal with it. That’s why we couldn’t stop it,” Hopkins told the Sun-Times. “That’s my criticism of her and this administration. The expertise that is needed to do what we need to do doesn’t seem to be there right now. Go get it.”
unrolled twitter thread about the Paradise on Earth Democrat cities are becoming. Mike @Doranimated Thu Aug 13 2020 08:23:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time), 15 Tweets, 4 min read I've been exchanging messages with friends about what what's happening in our cities: NY, Philadelphia and LA especially. A lot of disturbing things are not making the news. Even Republicans aren't drawing attention to it. Here's a message from a friend about life in NY today: "Here's my neighborhood, Mike: An elderly man, enjoying dinner w/his wife at an outdoor restaurant, punched in the face. A woman waiting for the subway to come stabbed in the back. An older neighbor pausing to catch his breath told to pay two dollars in protection money or get "the fuck off that particular street corner. This is just the ten block radius from where I live in the last six days." Other friends from NY talk about shattered business districts, drugstores with locked shelves, and hundreds of homeless people and parolees, including sex offenders, being moved into hotels on the Upper West Side adjacent to schools and playgrounds, which are filled with needles again like in the 1970s. Friends in Philadelphia report large homeless encampments in the city center and being robbed at gunpoint. Friends in LA talk about squatters taking over empty homes in professional class neighborhoods whose residents fantasize about emigrating to Canada. Friends in all three cities have seen police officers refuse to get out of their cars while large-scale lawbreaking takes place in front of them. That’s in addition to the obvious mayhem being perpetrated on a nightly basis in Portland, Seattle and Chicago. Estimates are that up to one million people have already fled New York City — meaning nearly everyone who has the means to leave has left. Minneapolis is a smoldering ruin that has sustained untold damage to its immigrant neighborhoods. This is not what I am reading. This is what I am hearing from people directly. Make no mistake about it: America is now in the middle of a 70s style urban crisis whose root is a well-founded fear of violent crime and social collapse in the midst of a pandemic. The destructive spiral that has been unleashed by leftwing play-acting at revolution and pursuit of stupid fantasies of abolishing the police is destroying our greatest cities. As urban residents vote with their feet, we are being left with empty urban shells with no tax base and no meaningful employment. The fact that the business of Washington DC is the Federal government and the national media is now centered here is blinding our society to what’s actually happening in other big cities across the country. What’s happening is this: Thirty years of very meaningful social and economic progress in our cities — which has hugely benefited minorities — is being undone by a toxic coalition of professional ideologues and “organizers,” rich kids in Che t-shirts, well-coiffed Mayors, and a National Democratic Party that pretends that the ongoing destruction of minority owned businesses and the social and economic infrastructure that is a primary engine for raising African American and immigrant families into the middle class is somehow about “civil rights” or “racial inequality.” It is not. It is about a war on the American middle class being waged from above and below by people whose response to the values and the struggles of average American families is hostility and contempt — and who imagine that the threat of further violence is a crowbar they can use to get Donald Trump out of the White House. Sacrificing America’s cities on the altar of their political cause may seem bizarre, because that’s where so many of their voters live — but it’s not. Who else are urban liberals going to vote for? Suburbanites can’t help but see the destruction of the cities as a harbinger of what could be next for them. The question is who can protect them — Donald Trump, or the people who celebrate the CHAZ. I know how I answer that question.
The looters in Chicago destroyed many small businesses. Some for the second time. The stories from these business owners and employees are now appearing in the media. They are sick and fed up of the looters and want firm action taken. Chicago pub employees flee from looters: ‘Everything is destroyed’ Raiding small businesses is not the 'right way' for people to get what they need, Wes Martin says https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/chicago-pub-owner-witnesses-ransacking-everything-is-destroyed Chicago’s Mother Hubbard's Pub was ransacked as employees were still inside, and looters took everything, employee Wes Martin told FOX Business’ “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.” Pub workers were closing up shop when gunshots were heard. Then, Martin said they ran for cover as truckloads of people ran inside. “My manager didn't even get a step out the door before gunshots were fired,” he said. “So we ran to the back of the building and kind of hid out for a little bit. And shortly after that, seven, eight SUVs full of people armed with guns pulled up in front of the building. So we ran out the back door and down the alley. Probably not a minute later, they were in the building. Everything is destroyed.” Martin said looters destroyed anything they could get their hands on, including antique registers and ATMs. According to Martin, the raiders seemed to be an organized group of people. “They were traveling in groups in cars and they were waiting for other people,” he said. “There were some people that had masks on but, honestly, my back was turned and I was running.” Looting in the U.S. has reportedly picked up since many Americans are struggling to afford clothing and food but Martin argued raiding small businesses is not the right way to get what you need. “It's a really hard topic to talk about when people don't have the means to be able to provide for themselves,” he said. “But … I'm working my butt off to try to stay in a working position. And, you know, we're not putting anything in our pockets right now while this is going on. So I'll be back out of work again for a little bit. I just hope that everybody can find a way to get what they need. I just don't think that raiding small businesses is the right way to do it.”
I see. So Portand threw the federal officers out for doing nasty things like using tear gas. So now the portland police are using tear gas on them, apparently because the presence of federal officers was not the cause of the riots in portland. Imagine that. Police use tear gas during overnight ‘riot’ as Portland protests return downtown Wednesday https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...-to-downtown-justice-center-live-updates.html
Chicago looters smash Ronald McDonald House with terrified sick kids inside https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/chicago-looters-smash-ronald-mcdonald-house-with-sick-kids-inside/ Sick kids and their families cowered in fear inside a Chicago Ronald McDonald House as looters smashed the front door while trying to get inside this week, according to staff. The charity says more than 30 families, as well as some sick children with them, were left “frightened” by those who smashed windows as they ransacked the Windy City during Monday’s chaotic crime spree. “[They were] very concerned there was a lot of activity right in front of the house, people making choices that could put them at risk and put our families at risk, so the staff was frightened,” Ronald McDonald House Charities’ Lisa Mitchell told ABC7. The attacked site houses families so they and their children can be close to Lurie Children’s Hospital, which should be an easy and safe trip just five blocks away. “They are already in a really, really difficult spot, and having this kind of additional stress and worry about getting to and from the hospital … because of safety concerns is just doubling the strain,” Mitchell said. Several windows were smashed and the front door had to be boarded up, but nobody was injured, the charity said. Mitchell told CBS Chicago that it was vital that families “get the rest they need while they have a child in the hospital seeking care.” “So it’s so important that anything that might be going on outside, we maintain our care for families,” she stressed. At least 13 cops were injured in violent clashes with looters, with 100 arrests. It started amid reports that a teen had been shot by cops, although police later said it was a 20-year-old man who had first fired at officers as he fled arrest. Ariel Atkins, a Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer, cheered the looting, calling it a “reparation.”