May 29, 2018

The first hot weekend brings violent mobs to Chicago streets as media turn a blind eye
By Thomas Lifson

"Wilding" is the term for mobs of violent young people taking over upscale neighborhoods and wreaking havoc, looting, mugging, and attacking innocent people just for the fun of it. A "good" neighborhood is no guarantee of safety anymore in Chicago. The breakdown of civil order, in other words, is well underway in the Windy City. Bit by bit, civilization is slipping away in Chicago.

If you want to know how bad things have gotten there, the major media outlets are no help. The last thing they want is for people to stay away from The Mag Mile – the stretch of Michigan Avenue just north of the Chicago River – full of glittering shopping, towering condo buildings and hotels, and the iconic Water Tower that is Chicago's rival to Fifth Avenue around Trump Tower. You have to go to Second City Cop and CWB Chicago, two grassroots websites that are not afraid of alienating big advertisers or of a phone call from City Hall.

The arrival of 90-plus-degree weather over the Memorial Day weekend unleashed the urban youth. Today, CWB Chicago lists the "highlights" of emergency radio traffic, and it is a horrifying compilation of chaos unleashed. For example, an hour and half or so of Saturday night:

8:22PM – "Mayhem," says the downtown police dispatcher, taking a few brief seconds to summarize what she and Chicago cops are dealing with.

8:26PM – Lakeview: Officers call for backup. Fifteen to 20 people are beating up a boy who tried to prevent them from stealing a bike at the Lane Tech High School Memorial Day carnival. Story here.

8:39PM – 70 or 80 teens coming off the Chicago Red Line. "Tell Water Tower to close their doors; otherwise, they gotta let 'em in."

8:42PM – Fights behind the historic Water Tower. Crowd: 200 people, per dispatcher.

8:45PM – "Water Tower is closed. There's one door open so people can exit."

8:46PM – Cop: "Got a large fight on Pearson just east of Michigan." "Have Water Tower lock their doors." "They are, they are."

8:55PM – Rush & Chicago Avenue: A group ran into Nordstrom Rack, saying someone has a gun outside. Issue appears to be fireworks set off near the historic Water Tower. Also: More cars needed outside the location for a fight.

8:56PM – Millennium Park: "Caller says a Hispanic male has a baseball bat in his pants."

9:11PM – Sergeant: "We have a Cubs game letting out. Send teams down to the platform at Chicago and State to make sure order is being kept" as the arriving Cubs fans mix with teens waiting to leave via the same station.

9:21PM – Big fight outside the Park Hyatt, says an officer.

9:39PM – "We need everybody we have to try to get rid of these people" at Chicago and State. "Push 'em to the Red Line." "Maintain the perimeter, do not let anyone out." At least four arrests for resisting police.

10:05PM – "Hundreds" running wild in the streets near Roosevelt Red Line station. The train from Chicago and State – which was supposed to run express to 47th Street – stopped at Roosevelt by mistake, an officer says.


Screen grabs from videos of weekend violence on and near the Magnificent Mile (credit: CWB Chicago).

There is much, much more. The early hours of Sunday morning were not an improvement.

At Second City Cop, they note the absence of major media coverage of the chaos and suggest (tongue in cheek, I hope) that the Fraternal Order of Police (the cops' union) declare "no go zones."

Many many reports of CPD merely "escorting" the ne'er-do-wells to the Red Line out of downtown – that's some deterrent.

Better advise everyone you know who might be coming downtown to come loaded for bear.

Second City Cop also reports – and is the sole outlet to say so – that cops are so overwhelmed that the Chicago Fire Department is being asked to have its trucks patrol the streets for three hours per shift. It would be nice if the major media in Chicago would ask the CFD about this report.

One incident that did make it to the Chicago Tribune:

A 19-year-old woman was charged in connection with an attack on two Chicago Fire Department paramedics in the back of an ambulance that was also struck by a bullet during the episode in Englewood early Sunday, police said.

Latorya Thigpen, of the Parkway Gardens neighborhood, is accused of hitting, punching, kicking, scratching and spitting at two uniformed paramedics as they tried to treat her in the 2700 block of West 68th Street in the South Side's Marquette Park neighborhood about 4 a.m, police said.

The paramedics suffered scratches, abrasions, bruising, and loss of consciousness, police said.

During the incident, a bullet lodged itself in the passenger side door of the ambulance as medics were treating a patient whose family became irate when they weren't allowed in the ambulance.

Civil order is precious, and far more fragile than the progressives that run Chicago (and most big cities) understand.

https://www.americanthinker.co...urn_a_blind_eye.html

I never thought I would see the day when the City would allow the thugs to take over Michigan Ave. That day has come. This is a direct rsult of the incompetence and mismanagment of the Mayor. He has to go. He sets the tone and that tone right now is not very good. I just hope the City can get a Mayor with the balls and the knowledge of how to take this City back.

I have a police scanner app on my iPhone and "Chicago Police" is almost ALWAYS the top feed.

As someone who actually did the "escorting", I can tell you it was worse than you can imagine. They were there for one thing and one thing only, create chaos.

Seven dead. The Tribune has stopped comments to all articles so the law abiding residents are unable to express their disgust for the mayor.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20180528-story.html

Memorial Day weekend in Chicago: 7 killed, 32 wounded by gunfire

by Jeremy Gorner and Paige Fry

At least seven people were killed and 32 others were wounded by gunfire in Chicago over the sweltering Memorial Day weekend as more than 1,000 extra police officers patrolled the streets, beaches and parks.

Shootings happened in neighborhoods stretching as far south as West Pullman and Brainerd, to West Side communities like Austin and East Garfield Park and to Northwest Side areas that usually don’t see much violence like Portage Park and Albany Park. One strangulation death also was reported.

This year’s Memorial Day weekend was less violent than last year, when 45 people were shot, 7 of them killed, according to data kept by the Tribune. Seventy-one people were shot, six fatally, over the same weekend in 2016 — one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in years.

The extended weekend is typically one of the busiest of the year for the Chicago Police Department. More than 1,000 extra officers were deployed to contain violence.

Crowd control

Speaking to reporters Monday afternoon at Foster Avenue beach, Deputy Chief Al Nagode said he’s had officers on bicycle patrol riding through the beaches north of Fullerton Avenue and other officers monitoring neighborhoods for retaliation after previous shootings.

“We’re balancing the officers that I need on the lakefront, and I’ve got my gang teams and my (saturation) teams and those guys that are working in the districts targeting not only the individuals that are driving the violence but the gangs that are creating the culture that’s allowing this violence to occur,” said Nagode, who oversees street patrol operations on the North, Northwest and West Sides.

Officers also descended on beaches and parks south of Fullerton, the downtown area that includes North Michigan Avenue and the South Loop. Much of their efforts focused on large groups of youths that were at times roaming through those areas, some of them causing disruptions to people and businesses. In one instance, groups of teens damaged property at a Target store at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street, Chicago police said.

Several people from these crowds were arrested on misdemeanor reckless conduct and disorderly conduct offenses during the weekend. Officers would corral the groups onto CTA Red Line trains at Chicago Avenue and State Street, forcing them to ride toward the South Side, police sources said.

The crowds swelled so much at Chicago and State that, according to CTA spokeswoman Irene Ferradaz, a Red Line train was stopped for almost 15 minutes at the request of police to get people off the train. Buses were also deployed to transport people away from the area.

Much of the teenage crowd aboard the trains exited at 35th Street and tried to make their way east toward the lake, only to be met by more cops along the way, police sources said. At least one robbery was also reported involving the crowds Sunday night.

“A lot of it is the nuisance that they’re doing. It’s part of what we get with teens,” said Nagode. “The resources it would take me to lock up 100 kids who were fighting would be tremendous, so we have to mitigate, stop the problem and do what’s necessary to make (everyone) safe.”

Chicago police efforts included pre-weekend raids with federal agents, leading to more than 100 arrests, mainly on illegal guns and drug charges. In the last few years, these raids have become highly publicized by Chicago police ahead of holiday weekends.

Also this weekend, a Chicago police sergeant was grazed by a bullet in her ballistic vest Saturday night when someone from an SUV shot at another vehicle in the city’s West Town community. Early Sunday, a 19-year-old woman attacked two Chicago Fire Department paramedics in the back of an ambulance that was also struck by a bullet during the episode in West Englewood.

Fatal shootings

Six fatal shootings happened in parts of the South and West sides long stricken by violence, drug-dealing and poverty. But the first homicide occurred Friday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood when a woman was found by a passer-by strangled in a vacant lot outside an abandoned building in the 4500 block of West West End Avenue.

The first person shot to death during the weekend was in the Brainerd neighborhood, when 36-year-old Michael Bell was shot and killed and a second man was wounded, Chicago police said. Two people, at least one of them armed with a gun, approached Bell and the second victim and asked for a cigarette before opening fire, police said.

Bell had been shot at least two other times in his life, in September 2012 and April 2001, according to police.

Early Saturday, 34-year-old Timothy Brown was found fatally shot outside an apartment building in the 2300 block of West 70th Street in West Englewood. The area where Brown was killed is known for narcotics activity and detectives are looking at his death as possibility being drug-related, police said.

About 8:40 p.m. Saturday, 20-year-old Bobbieana Slyons was with her mother and daughter when she was shot and killed in the 800 block of West 76th Street in the Auburn Gresham community. Police said the gunfire was believed to have come from a red car and she was not the intended target.

About 20 minutes later and nearly six miles away, China Marie Lyons-Upshaw, 17, was shot and killed inside her bedroom at her home in the 800 block of East 49th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Monday officers were looking for “a male companion” who is believed to be the shooter and detectives are trying to figure out if he fatally shot Lyons-Upshaw accidentally.

Hours after Lyons-Upshaw’s death, in what was believed to be an unrelated shooting, a man was found gunned down about a block or two away with a bullet wound to his chest. Police said the victim’s body was found inside a vehicle in the 5000 block of South Drexel Boulevard about 8 a.m. Sunday.

Early Monday around 1 a.m., Jeremy Ross, 31, was fatally shot in his head and chest near Flournoy and Laramie avenues in the Austin community. Guglielmi said Ross and the shooter were “arguing over a girl” before the shooter opened fire then ran away.

The final fatal shooting of the long weekend happened around 9:10 p.m. on Monday in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood.

A 30-year-old man was found shot in the head in the 800 block of South Albany Avenue.

Neighbors told police they heard gunshots and saw five juveniles running from the area.


Tribune reporters Peter Nickeas and Hannah Leone contributed to this story.

"Hizzonor" Richard Daley leaves office and the city yields the south side. Now it's gotten so bad that the city is yielding the near north side and main tourist attractions.

How much worse can it get under Democratic control?

His Honor Richard the First knew how to deal with insurrection.

They're from the 'hood. How else are they going to get their thrills.

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Originally posted by Klusk2:
As someone who actually did the "escorting", I can tell you it was worse than you can imagine. They were there for one thing and one thing only, create chaos.

I can imagine. Glad you made it out safely....of course there are always next weekend and of course 4th of July coming up for both of us.

Of course with a total lack of any kind of consequences for criminals due to the Prosecutor, the judges, the media, and the mayor deciding there is no rule of law for criminals; fully expect one weekend will be full on "Mad Max" time. I just hope all you Chicago Cop forum members are off that weekend.....probably not with your staffing requirements. Just be safe.

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8:56PM – Millennium Park: "Caller says a Hispanic male has a baseball bat in his pants."

Or was he really, really excited?

Reading that reminded me of the draft riots scene in Gangs of New York.

An elephant in the living room, everyone pretends it isn't there. But to acknowledge the elephant would not be politically correct. So the elephant will kill more and more people, and the pretend will have to get bigger and bigger.

Imagine what would happen if social order failed or if federal benefits were interrupted or some outrage swept through....imagine if these people were three days hungry and in no fear of judicial consequence. Imagine that.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Imagine what would happen if social order failed or if federal benefits were interrupted or some outrage swept through....imagine if these people were three days hungry and in no fear of judicial consequence. Imagine that.

Are you a soothsayer?

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Imagine what would happen if social order failed or if federal benefits were interrupted or some outrage swept through....imagine if these people were three days hungry and in no fear of judicial consequence. Imagine that.

Are you a soothsayer?

In this regard I am a seer.

I bet it's the Chinese leaving Chinatown to go riot around the city...

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Imagine what would happen if social order failed or if federal benefits were interrupted or some outrage swept through....imagine if these people were three days hungry and in no fear of judicial consequence. Imagine that.

Mad Max and Escape from New York would look like a trip to Walt Disney World comparatively. Imagine if a Katrina like event would be like in Chi-Town?

When ChicagoSigMan was literally ChicagoSigMan, the WaterTower area was my hood. The violence and "disadvantaged youths" generally stayed on the Sout and West sides of the city. Their descent upon the Magnificent Mile is a major development. If downtown Chicago gets the reputation of being unsafe, Chicago can write off tourism for a generation. Ask New York how that worked for them?

Given the city's financial situaation, it's not like they can just enlarge the police force. - even if the will to actually police the thugs existed.

Just one more in a long list of reasons why ChicagoSigMan is thrilled to be the Artist Formerly Known as ChicagoSigMan

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Imagine what would happen if social order failed or if federal benefits were interrupted or some outrage swept through....imagine if these people were three days hungry and in no fear of judicial consequence. Imagine that.

Mad Max and Escape from New York would look like a trip to Walt Disney World comparatively. Imagine if a Katrina like event would be like in Chi-Town?

Another soothsayer?

IIRC, a New Orleans congress critter got a military escort to his house to retrieve $90K of bribe money from his freezer before Katrina hit. Seems the Mayor of New Orleans also went to prison re Katrina related corruption.

In the back of my mind I imagined Chi-Town mayor Rahm in the same boat (but probably with a lot more money involved)

Time for armored bulldozers and Flammenwerfer. Roast 'em, toast 'em, fill trenches with 'em.