The mayor is now backing the protest! Is he out of his mind???

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20180706-story.html

Emanuel backs Pfleger's planned Dan Ryan anti-violence march

by john byrne
Chicago Tribune, July 6, 2018

With the Rev. Michael Pfleger refusing to budge from a plan to shut down part of the Dan Ryan Expressway during an anti-violence march this weekend, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday broke with a top Chicago Police Department official and said he supports the event.

Police First Deputy Superintendent Anthony Riccio last week called on Pfleger to instead hold his march this Saturday on a neighborhood street, saying it would require a massive police presence to protect marchers on the Dan Ryan that would leave other parts of the city with too few patrol officers.

But after Pfleger pledged to go ahead with his plan to march on the northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan, from 79th Street to 67th Street, Emanuel got behind the idea. “They should be allowed (on the Dan Ryan), yes, because they’re going to be talking about anti-violence,” Emanuel said Friday at a school budget event. “And I think there’s a proper way to raise that awareness. I don’t think there should ever have been a doubt about that effort.”

The re-election seeking mayor is trying to overcome the criticism that he hasn’t done enough to stem the city’s stubbornly high violent crime rate. He may have decided backing the march organized by the high-profile pastor at St. Sabina Catholic Church with a long track record of activism was a better move than opposing it, especially if Pfleger insists on going ahead with it anyway.

Pfleger and other protesters want to meet with Gov. Bruce Rauner, Emanuel and other elected officials to discuss ways to curb the city’s gun violence.

During a news conference at City Hall last week, before which an Emanuel spokeswoman told reporters Riccio wanted to discuss the march, the deputy superintendent said the expressway route could be detrimental to the aim of reducing violent crime because of the number of officers who would have to be on hand.

“The very thing that they’re trying to accomplish — stop violence and stop shootings — has the potential to actually escalate because we’re pulling police officers out of the neighborhoods where we need them in order to escort the protesters down the expressway,” Riccio told reporters after a City Hall hearing on Police Department crime statistics.

Riccio said it could require 200 or more police officers to shut down the Dan Ryan to protect marchers.

Illinois State Police, which has jurisdiction of Chicago’s expressways, has said troopers will try to stop protesters from entering the Dan Ryan and will arrest people if necessary.

“If people break the law, we may have to arrest people. But that’s not what our goal is here,” Illinois State Police Director Leo Schmitz said at a news conference earlier this week, adding: “Our goal is to save lives, whether it be the young children or people in the city or motorists. We just don’t want anybody to get hurt.”

The Pfleger-led march is set to step off at 10 a.m.


jebyrne@chicagotribune.com

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
The mayor is now backing the protest! Is he out of his mind???

This is Rahm Emanuel you're talking about. Of course he's out of his mind. Don't forget that he worked for Obama for a while (White House Chief of Staff, IIRC) so he got all the support he needed when he ran for Mayor. He's as left-wing and corrupt as they come.

Anybody have a Ford F-350 with about a 12-inch lift and Dixie Air Horns I can borrow Saturday morning? I promise to refuel it and wash the blood and body parts off when I return it.

As nauseating as it is, Rahm will be the best of the lot when the next mayoral election is held.
Compared to who will run against him ( all Democrats, there is no Republican party in Chicago. The primary is the election).
SAD!
The absolute IGNORANT FOOLS that live here!
The Dan Ryan express way runs right through the primarily black south side so they are blocking there own passage to there homes.

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“And I think there’s a proper way to raise that awareness. I don’t think there should ever have been a doubt about that effort.”

We've been so immersed in raising our awareness of everything, we ought to be at Scientologist-levels of enlightenment.

If anyone thinks shutting down a freeway in a major city won't incite violence has never driven in major city.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday broke with a top Chicago Police Department official and said he supports the event.

If blocking the road is a crime then is this dipshit an accomplice or is he aiding and abetting?

Democrats view all laws as optional, just as they view the Constitution as a "Living Document."

This Rev. Pfleger is a real SCUM BAG that needs to be arrested and spend time with the rest of his PoS followers in lock up. He is a loud mouth democrat that I despise just as much as Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, Feinstein, Clinton and the rest of the democrat fold.

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Originally posted by Cousin Vinnie:
This Rev. Pfleger is a real SCUM BAG that needs to be arrested and spend time with the rest of his PoS followers in lock up. He is a loud mouth democrat that I despise just as much as Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, Feinstein, Clinton and the rest of the democrat fold.

There is only one problem, they (they being the Prosecuting Attorney, the Sheriff in Charge of the Jail, and the Judges) don't hold anyone; convicted felon in possession of firearm, armed robbery, strong arm robbery, violent assault, carjackers are routinely released with minimum or no bond. Fake Father Dipshit would only be in jail maybe long enough to be booked, that is if the Sheriff doesn't walk him out without being processed. Besides, if he has to stay for any long of time, it will be pizza night......no I am not kidding, the Sheriff has pizza nights for the jail inmates.

Why does "the right to protest" (i.e, disrupt the normal day of a civilized society, block roads, inhibit persons from moving about freely) supercede a tax paying citizens right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" (i.e, getting home from a long day of work in time for supper, an ambulance taking a patient to a hospital, etc...)

Your "right to protest" stops at the shore of my right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", and someday my pursuit of said goal will be interrupted by the perversion of yours and trust me...you won't like me when I'm angry.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:

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Originally posted by Cousin Vinnie:
This Rev. Pfleger is a real SCUM BAG that needs to be arrested and spend time with the rest of his PoS followers in lock up. He is a loud mouth democrat that I despise just as much as Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, Feinstein, Clinton and the rest of the democrat fold.

There is only one problem, they (they being the Prosecuting Attorney, the Sheriff in Charge of the Jail, and the Judges) don't hold anyone; convicted felon in possession of firearm, armed robbery, strong arm robbery, violent assault, carjackers are routinely released with minimum or no bond. Fake Father Dipshit would only be in jail maybe long enough to be booked, that is if the Sheriff doesn't walk him out without being processed. Besides, if he has to stay for any long of time, it will be pizza night......no I am not kidding, the Sheriff has pizza nights for the jail inmates.

I presume you didn't hear about the "Masturbation Wing" of Sheriff Darts jail then.

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Originally posted by armored:
As nauseating as it is, Rahm will be the best of the lot when the next mayoral election is held.
Compared to who will run against him ( all Democrats, there is no Republican party in Chicago. The primary is the election).
SAD!
The absolute IGNORANT FOOLS that live here!
The Dan Ryan express way runs right through the primarily black south side so they are blocking there own passage to there homes.

There is another competent candidate. Paul Vallas. ANYONE but rahm

The phake phather pfaker has to shut down the express way... nutless pussy cant shut down the dope-boys slinging that shit in his own parish that are responsible for the shooting and killing. FUCKING COWARD.

And the mayor backs this lawless bullshit? I can't put my level of disgust into words.

I hope the voters remember.

Rham is hopelessly pandering to the black community in order to try to get votes.

I just hope Leo Shmitz (head of Ill State Police) does the right thing, and puts it out there that all the manpower wasted for this bullshit stunt could have been better used to combat things like... shootings and homicides.

Cripes. It never ends.

On another note. CPD Sig, when you come back through going home from your vacation and if you are anywhere close to me. Reach out.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
The phake phather pfaker has to shut down the express way... nutless pussy cant shut down the dope-boys slinging that shit in his own parish that are responsible for the shooting and killing. FUCKING COWARD.

And the mayor backs this lawless bullshit? I can't put my level of disgust into words.

I hope the voters remember.

Rham is hopelessly pandering to the black community in order to try to get votes.

I just hope Leo Shmitz (head of Ill State Police) does the right thing, and puts it out there that all the manpower wasted for this bullshit stunt could have been better used to combat things like... shootings and homicides.

I hope ISP bills the city at time-and-a-half or double-time since the idiot mayor pushed this lawlessness. Frankly, he should be billed personally, along with each member of the city council.

Next, airdrop water to disperse this mess.

The real kicker of all of this is; this moron is doing it to "raise awareness" on the violence here in Chicago. Unless you're living under a rock, I'm pretty sure everyone is aware of the violence in Chicago. It's kinda an old joke at this point.

There is NO BETTER WAY to turn people against you than to cause a traffic jam intentionally. So monumentally stupid.

Here's how to solve the problem: 155mm howitzer with VT fuzes.

Those "people" are cancers to the world. Instead of addressing the problem, they want to blame everyone else but their voting base.

Start a riot to protest violence? I don't know if it is the collective single digit IQ, or collective single digit MQ (moral quotient). Maybe both.

This makes me f@cking sick, Rahm Emmanuel endorses this and Governor Rauner lets this to happen. Illinois is officially lost.