Mayor Lori Lightfoot denounces vigilantism in Chicago after white men patrol neighborhood streets with bats
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 5 months ago
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest.
Multiple streets were blocked in the Bridgeport neighborhood Wednesday night as nearby protests dispersed. Near West Pershing Road, water gushed from an open fire hydrant as small groups gathered on corners. Some of the men held bats. One wore a shirt that said “All Lives Matter,” one sipped a beer and another waved at an officer as he drove by. Additional groups of people, some armed with bats, lined West 31st Street.
Asked about the situation in Bridgeport, a diversifying neighborhood that served as an Irish American power base for the Daley political family, Lightfoot said, “It is absolutely not appropriate for people to take up arms, bats, pipes, whatever in patrolling neighborhoods.”
“We’ve seen that end with tragic results across the country and we’re not about to allow that practice to happen here in Chicago. If there’s an issue, call 911,” Lightfoot said. “I absolutely support neighbors being vigilant as to what’s going on on the streets and in their blocks but taking up arms, that leads to chaos and we’re not supporting vigilantism in the city of Chicago under any circumstances.”
Bet you thought these people were anti-cop, didn’t you? Nope. They are anti-you.
The criminals, rioters and thieves get to do what they want. You cannot defend yourselves or your property, so says the governor of chaos.
You see, if any in our community really believes that after all of this goes down there will be an end to no-knock raids and police overreach will be reigned in, you are a naive fool.
They intend to evict the few remaining relatively good people left in law enforcement, those who still believe in some semblance of the constitution, replace them with others (MAVNI recruits, La Raza, etc.), and turn the police against you.
That will ensure that (a) you don’t fight back when they confiscate your 401K and retirement accounts, (b) you don’t fight back when they try to confiscate your weapons, (c) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill to tax inheritance, (d) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill for reparations, and (e) you don’t fight back when they socialize medicine.
Do you see? You didn’t really believe any of this was about the cops, did you? Tell me you saw through all of this?
On June 8, 2020 at 12:17 am, 41mag said:
Illinois was going to pioneer the tax on leaving the state, wonder if that happened.
On June 8, 2020 at 9:06 am, George 1 said:
Yep. Pretty close to how it will probably go down. The police will be little more that death squads to people on our side. The sad thing is, it will take our side a long time to come to terms with the idea that they must fight back in ways they find distasteful. Many will perish as a result.
After that adjustment period it will be very dangerous for the communists in many areas. As Bracken says it will be a distinctly unique point in history. There has never been an oppressed population with access to so many weapons.
Another wild card is “La Raza”. The radical Hispanics have gone along with the democrats up to this point. But have you noticed that the barrios, Especially the large ones in California, have not burned. The gangs in those places, to include MS-13, will not tolerate blacks burning their property. One of the dirty little secrets is that a large portion of Hispanics hate black people more than the KKK ever did. There are reports in a few places of “Roof Mexicans”. Interesting times.