Sunday night was a busy night for rioting with a lot of things happening.
It was the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, stoking things in Ferguson and in other cities.
There was also a police-involved shooting in Chicago. Allegedly, the suspect fired a gun at the police which they found later. The suspect is in the hospital. But just like with the Mike Brown situation, you had “witnesses” spreading false stories about the shooting including that the cops shot a child.
But that didn’t stop the immediate reaction of some in Chicago; it helped set off a chain reaction, with massive chaos in Chicago in response.
Hundreds of people rampaged through stores along the Magnificent Mile in the city and in other parts of the downtown, smashing and looting, even shooting at the cops at one point and attacking the police including beaning a cop in the head with an object.
Looter uses vehicle to break into a business at the Chicago BLM riot overnight. #BlackLivesMatter #ChicagoRiots pic.twitter.com/9CaddwItYO
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
Mass chaos in downtown Chicago. Hundred of people looting stores. Looters broke into a bank and ripped out the atm. They are trying to break into it. This is at State and Lake. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/oKGrMHGADP
— Vi Nguyen (@ViNguyen) August 10, 2020
A heavyset female looter tries to escape from police but trips and falls. #BlackLivesMatter #ChicagoRiots pic.twitter.com/ISfAv1xjW6
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
BLM rioters loot a @Walgreens in Chicago tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/Q1upzid1MF
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
Looters broke into a Chicago mall and are looting the place clean tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wKJZbcvpoZ
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
BLM looters in Chicago have broken into a Tesla dealership. #ChicagoRiots https://t.co/27cpocwWLB
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
Looter shouts “I can’t breathe” as she runs through store looking for something to remove security tags. #Chicago pic.twitter.com/uElON1OYmf
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) August 10, 2020
Looting in Chicago pic.twitter.com/HYmHwxRpwl
— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 10, 2020
At one point, someone shot at the police trying to respond to the chaos. While a police car was hit, no one was reportedly injured.
UPDATE: CPD say officers were arresting looters when someone in a car heading south on Michigan Ave. started shooting at officers. Don’t know how many people were in the car. Officers shot back. No officers injured. Police don’t know if anyone in the car was wounded. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/ZT6cDLvacV
— Vi Nguyen (@ViNguyen) August 10, 2020
Other random shooting as well:
Gunfire rings out on the streets of Chicago during the #BlackLivesMatter riot overnight. Looters scatter the street. #ChicagoRiots pic.twitter.com/RWhCDpvu5N
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
Cop didn’t even see it coming.
Nobody at all:
Chicago: DAYUMMM😭😭#Looting #damn #Chicago #Chiraq #COVID19
IG: Thebrokenchild__ pic.twitter.com/NDH1FpusYJ— Nobapp (@YoungB_83) August 10, 2020
Chicago looters try to run over police in car. pic.twitter.com/HfktOsUDCR
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 10, 2020
A security guard was shot in the stomach.
They even raised the bridges to prevent more people from coming in to loot.
All bridges up in Chicago to prevent access to downtown. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/KutdT8Nbc6
— Vi Nguyen (@ViNguyen) August 10, 2020
This is what it looked like at the end of the night on Goose Island.
It was crazy, people were coming with bags to get stuff, cars were dropping off people, they even reportedly had a U-Haul truck pull up to be able to steal more stuff at a mall at one point.
So exactly what was this all about? A mistaken report in what, at this point, appears to be police shooting back at someone who shot at them? This isn’t protest and it doesn’t have any justification. But we’ll hear it this morning, I’m sure, that this is “protest” and people were “upset.” People weren’t upset, they were having the time of their lives picking up their Gucci and Louis Vuitton stuff. This wasn’t the “language of the unheard,” this was the language of the opportunists.
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