I wouldn't drive the Dan Ryan in an armored personnel vehicle.

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I wouldn't drive the Dan Ryan in an armored personnel vehicle.

^^^^^^
Sometimes you do not have a choice and the alternate route is worse. There have been shootings on the Stevenson as well. Luckily, I no longer reside in Chicagoland.

I guess you sort of get used to it and don’t think about it when you’re driving. I bail out @ 111th or 119th.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Are there any Joseph Wambaugh fans in the house? I'm thinking of an Air Force reservist who did a little pumping and got a medal for trying to save a life.

Had to cover the wound with his hat to keep the blood from spouting up iirc. Officer couldn't give an interview to the press without cussing. Good book.

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I guess you sort of get used to it and don’t think about it when you’re driving. I bail out @ 111th or 119th.

I remember when they opened the new Comiskey. People in the high rise projects across the Ryan were taking pot shots at the stadium, requiring seats in the upper deck to be replaced. Both the upper deck and the high rise projects are now gone.

35th and Shields was always an exciing location. As a kid, our Little League team would travel by bus for safety reasons.

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Originally posted by Sailor1911:
I wouldn't drive the Dan Ryan in an armored personnel vehicle.

Take the CTA instead.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...nt-agitator-removed/

Attorney General William Barr on Friday lauded law enforcement after the killing of self-professed Portland Antifa member and murder suspect Michael Forest Reinoehl, saying American cities are safer with him off the streets.

“Last Saturday, Aaron ‘Jay’ Danielson was shot and killed amid the continuing violence in Portland. Local authorities subsequently obtained an arrest warrant for Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described Antifa member suspected of the alleged murder,” Barr said in a statement. “Reinoehl fled to Washington State, where he was located yesterday by members of a fugitive task force led by the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, and state and local law enforcement partners. When Reinoehl attempted to escape arrest and produced a firearm, he was shot and killed by law enforcement officers.”

“The tracking down of Reinoehl — a dangerous fugitive, admitted Antifa member, and suspected murderer — is a significant accomplishment in the ongoing effort to restore law and order to Portland and other cities,” he added.

“I applaud the outstanding cooperation among federal, state, and local law enforcement, particularly the fugitive task force team that located Reinoehl and prevented him from escaping justice. The streets of our cities are safer with this violent agitator removed , and the actions that led to his location are an unmistakable demonstration that the United States will be governed by law, not violent mobs.”

“Initial reports indicate the suspect produced a firearm, threatening the lives of law enforcement officers. Task force members responded to the threat and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement.

Far more restraint than I could have displayed.
Hats off to you guys dealing with these clowns and stay safe.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...affic-highway-video/

https://hotair.com/archives/ed...e-blm-protest-wasnt/

NYC:

After a confrontation between Black Lives Matter protesters and counterdemonstrators, police ordered one of the latter to take his car and leave

The counterdemonstrator did — by driving right through the BLM crowd blocking the road.

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Originally posted by sdy:
The streets of our cities are safer with this violent agitator removed

The killer's sister had this to say:

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'I wouldn't say at this point that this counts as bad news. It's just more news"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...t-dead-Marshals.html

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'I wouldn't say at this point that this counts as bad news. It's just more news"

It's a shame what this dirt bag put his family through while alive and even now bringing unwanted attention on them.

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Originally posted by nasig:
I can't say I'm proud about the fact I feel this way but....I'm glad they killed him

I can't say I'm proud about the fact I feel this way but....I think he got off easy.

As I understand it, the state/local DA/ Criminal Justice system can’t touch a federal officer in the course of their official duties.

So even if the local politicians wanted to try to jam up the task force officers/Marshals in this case, they would get a big middle finger in response.

A page or three back in this thread is a great post clarifying the role of the US Marshals in the death of the shitstain, with great clarity about who was there, who the shooters were, who the shooters work for (not the Feds), followed by about a dozen posts lauding the US Marshals for their work that day.

:/

It was local people, people, working "as" a US Marshals team, who tried to arrest him / killed him.

Lots of misdirected thanks, being the point.

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Originally posted by 18DAI:
It was a mostly peaceful arrest...

He was mostly un-shot.



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Originally posted by 46and2:
A page or three back in this thread is a great post clarifying the role of the US Marshals in the death of the shitstain, with great clarity about who was there, who the shooters were, who the shooters work for (not the Feds), followed by about a dozen posts lauding the US Marshals for their work that day.

:/

It was local people, people, working "as" a US Marshals team, who tried to arrest him / killed him.

Lots of misdirected thanks, being the point.

If they were locals assigned as Task Force Officers to the US Marshals, they were Marshals for all intents and purposes. Sworn, badge carrying, deputy US Marshals with all the gear, fed vehicles, fed OT pay, etc. That’s pretty standard nation-wide.

Foundation With Biden Campaign Ties Funding Leftist Agitators On U.S. Streets

https://thefederalist.com/2020...tors-on-u-s-streets/

Last Sunday, the site of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte witnessed a night of violence leading to at least five arrests. Since Friday, Black Lives Matter activists terrorized the Queen City, including beating police officers, in an effort to intimidate GOP attendees and business owners.

By contrast, the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee brought only a small gathering of peaceful activists, who declared: “We decided that it would make sense for us to make the emphasis of our action the one point of unity that deals with police crimes.”

Here we have a real “tale of two cities.” To understand the disparity of these two convention host cities separated by only a week, let’s examine some financiers of organizations fomenting the riots now taking place across the country.
Big Money, Connections to Top Democrats

Claiming to be America’s second-largest private foundation, the Ford Foundation has poured almost $2 billion into groups active in “disrupting systems to advance social justice,” according to its grant database.

The Ford Foundation boasts key members of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign as alumni executives. Harris’s sister and ex-campaign chairwoman Maya Harris served as the Ford foundation’s vice president alongside Biden’s now senior advisor, Cristóbal Alex, who served as its program director during the Obama presidency.

Some of Obama’s top staffers are now Ford Foundation’s top staffers. Taara Rangarajan, now Ford’s chief of staff, served as Obama’s national security advisor from 2013-2016. Before that, she served as a special assistant to Susan Rice during the Benghazi affair. Another Ford exec, Xavier de Souza Briggs, served as President Obama’s associate director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Funding for Communist-Connected Street Agitators

During the final months of the Obama presidency, Ford Foundation gave prominent leaders of the communist Workers World Party (WWP) funding to form the Southern Vision Alliance (SVA), a collective of activists that includes members of the group raining down terror in Charlotte last week at the RNC convention.

Shortly after getting $200,000 from the Ford Foundation in 2016, these activists performed one of the first violent and illegal teardowns of a historic monument in the country, in Durham, North Carolina. After the activists were arrested and charged for rioting and property damage, they are being defended in court, for free, by lawyers from another Ford grantee: the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

Flush with Ford Foundation cash, these activists continue to promote property destruction and violence during demonstrations.

The Ford Foundation likes what it sees in the alleged criminal gang. This year, the wealthy nonprofit gave the group $750,000, more than tripling its inaugural donation, bringing Ford’s total contributions to SVA so far $1.2 million, according to the foundation’s website.
Millions for Marxists

Marxist-Leninist groups also get Ford Foundation support. Directed by Bernie Sanders’s senior advisor Phillip Agnew, the Dream Defenders group seeks the release of criminals from prison and the “end to the Capitalist system in the United States,” according to its now-scrubbed web page. The Ford Foundation has given the group $1.1 million, according to its grant database.

Social media accounts show the Marxist activists campaigning for Democrat mayors, state attorneys, and prosecutors in Florida who promise to end cash bail, defund the police, and free hardened criminals from jail.

Dream Defenders’ tactics vary: they shut down bridges in Florida, holding thousands of commuters hostage during rush-hour traffic; block entrances to Miami neighborhoods, threatening residents with unrelenting “civil unrest”; and shut down awards ceremonies for law enforcement, all in an effort to raise awareness for Democrats’ de-policing policies.

https://twitter.com/Mvmnt4BlkL.../1298593899074723848

A tour through the Ford Foundation grant database shows Southern Vision Alliance and Dream Defenders to be a tiny part of these riot-fomenting groups agitating on American streets. While activists Ford funds desecrate cities and terrorize regular folks, the foundation gives millions to the “Defund the Police” movement.

As I reported in the National Pulse, Ford cheers the success of its anti-police campaign. From its website: “Already, we’ve seen our grantees at the forefront of the change that’s taken place over the last few days—from the City Council of Minneapolis’s pledge to dismantle the police department to reimagine public safety to Mayor Garcetti’s commitment to divest $250 million of the LAPD’s budget to support affected communities, to Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon voting to end the presence of police in their schools.”

Cities that have sought to cripple their police departments in acquiescence to such agitators’ demands have forced out police chiefs and seen officers leave the force. The result: murders and violent crimes, including shootings, assaults, and rapes, have increased exponentially in the nation’s biggest metros, according to multiple reports.
Accountable to No One

The Ford Foundation is financing a network of insurgents that intimidate elected officials and citizens to bring about dangerous political change. The FBI defines using intimidation and violence to achieve political ends as domestic terrorism.

Like other private foundations, Ford is governed only by basic IRS filing requirements and has virtually no public oversight. With woke leaders like Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins, Ford Motor Company’s Henry Ford III, and abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s former president Cecile Richards sitting on Ford’s board, be assured it will not cut off the funding to these Democrat street squads.

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The Ford Foundation is financing a network of insurgents that intimidate elected officials and citizens to bring about dangerous political change.

Isn't it sad that a foundation set up by one of this country's greatest capitalists is working so hard to destroy capitalism?

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I guess you sort of get used to it and don’t think about it when you’re driving. I bail out @ 111th or 119th.

Did you live out this way?


I drove the Ryan every day for years. Between home & 51st st, 31st St, and when I was assigned downtown. My ride has been hampered more than once due to an expressway shooting.