Maybe there are some Chicago residents here who can add more information, but I wanted to talk about the events a couple of nights ago along Miracle Mile.
A huge group of people, acting apparently in coordination, committed widespread vandalism and looting of stores and buildings in the area. There were constant sirens and gunfire throughout the night.
National media isn’t really picking this up, save for an article on CNN that doesn’t truly describe the full extent.
A good friend of mine lives only a few minutes from there, and he is so shaken by what happened he’s leaving the city immediately. He GREW UP in Chicago so he’s no stranger to the problems in the city but this is the last straw for him.
I am a life long Democrat and storieslike this make me sad About our media. I want to give the benefit of the doubt but it seems ludicrous to not report it.
op- Yes I agree. I’m independent but I never understood before this year the “biased MSM” that right-leaning folks were complaining about. I finally get it...
@Anonymous Same. I’m a bit dismayed to see The NY Times, a news source I held in the highest regard, have its own biased agenda.
There was a big story about this on NPR, and they interviewed the organizer, who justified the looting as reparations.
op- Thats good they covered it. Who were the organizers? Were they affiliated with any group?
@Anonymous https://www.npr.org/2020/08/11/901219045/chicago-authorities-aim-to-prevent-another-night-of-looting.
@BrooklynMom op- So BLM says this is all justified. Nice.
Yes! I heard about this via a FB group I am in- someone posted how the "events of the other night had made them want to leave Chicago and move out of downtown" and had to google it because I had no idea what the person was talking about. I was wondering if I just hadn't been watching the news enough but had not heard a single word.
Here are some photos this is the Kratom store. In response to the organizer's statement that this looting constitutes reparations - wow...
And the Best Buy parking lot also in Chicago yesterday morning.
@Anonymous op- Jesus that’s crazy. Thanks for posting those, I hadn’t seen photos showing the scale and details.
And an article...just a matter of time before it comes to NY at least Lori Lightfoot is an educated attorney who must know what she is doing by turning down federal help, and her district attorney has an open strategy to undermine authority in the city...in NY it's DeBlasio and Cyrus Vance who don't seem to know what the heck they're doing...witness the homeless shelters on the UWS and the mural in front of Trump Tower at a time when the city is desperate for a federal bailout. Dinner with Cuomo doesn't go very far toward convincing me to come back to the city:
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/08/10/arrests-looting-chicago-police-unrest/stories/202008100062
There is an article about this in the NY Times which is in the "Most Popular" articles, as well as an article in the Wall Street Journal. What "national media" do you read?
op- I said this because local media was covering the full scale the day after. Perhaps it took the other outlets longer to cover, but they weren’t when I looked.
Nothing about Chicago on the front page of the NYT or in the NYT Most Popular as of right now.
Just noticed an article about national retail chains abandoning Manhattan as "unsustainable" that article must have been written before Chicago as the bar for what is considered unsustainable gets lower each day. Talk about blaming the victim (in this case, the retail chains).
op- I suppose that’s one way to put it, riots and crime do make neighborhoods economically “unsustainable“.
It was on MP and front page of both NYT and WSJ earlier but did move pretty quickly. Also covered by New York Magazine. That's the news cycle these days, and obviously, it's not going to be front page after the Kamala Harris announcement. The NYT article notes that the article was on page A1 of the print edition.
@anonymous The announcement of Kamala did not push the violence and unrest out of my mind that's for sure...Look at the beating in Portland last night:
Update: PPB Identifies Suspect in High-Profile Assault, Efforts ... www.portlandoregon.gov › police › news › read
6 hours ago - Yesterday, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) began investigation of an ... to police arrival and reported that 9-10 people were "beating the guy.
Nothing on the front page of the WSJ website either. Authors of the article on an inside page downplay the massive looting and violence as "unrest"...must be the same ones who signed the letter opposing the opinion section:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-journalists-ask-publisher-for-clearer-distinction-between-news-and-opinion-content-11595349198
No, there is a WSJ article titled "After Chicago Looting and Coronavirus, Businesses Consider Closing Shop."
@anonymous Holy understatement...oh right from the News side of the WSJ!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-journalists-ask-publisher-for-clearer-distinction-between-news-and-opinion-content-11595349198
The news knows that many have stopped caring to hear about a bunch of lame-ass looter losers. Looting and destruction has become old news - already been there done that. We're ready to move on to other news.
op- I can assure you that a lot of regular folks in middle America DO care. And they are starting to view one particular party as not being strongly or sufficiently opposed to these types of events.
You must not have much invested in your community - or in your society.
Who will live or start businesses in these communities? Look at the aftermath of the riots in Detroit fifty years later.
NIMBY to the max.
There was an interview with someone today that said ”looting is reparations.”
Saw that mentioned in several articles . It wasn't someone it was one of the BLM leaders. Cuz you know, the store owners have insurance so it doesn't matter (many of the affected owners who are not chain stores, actually do not have insurance, articles on that too) (https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-chicago-defends-looting-reparations-1524502
@Anonymous Often insurance will not reimburse for looting b/c that is associated with riots which are not covered due to Force Majeur/Act of God clauses.
This infuriated me. And this is why Trump will get re-elected. He will demonize Kamala because she's Black and his stupid supporters will buy it.
Who's stupid? See quote above about people being over reading about looting in "other cities"...
Because it's orchestrated. MSM is complicit as far as I'm concerned.
op- I think that the media not doing its job on certain events makes it complicit in a way, sure