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The group, estimated to be between 50 and 80 people, broke out the front display windows of the store at 11:51 p.m. in the 900 block of North Michigan Avenue
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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That Ferragamo storefront is on E Walton St between N Michigan Avenue and Ernst Ct.
The building, called 900 North Michigan, contains a Bloomingdale Department Store.
It’s in the Gold Coast, a block from the John Hancock Tower.
Is it just a coincidence that Ferragamo and Christopher Columbus are both of Italian descent and were targeted in the same weekend?
Wow. Giving the rioting Mob that much mental credit is difficult to concede. I doubt if most of the Mob even know where Italy is located. They probably think that Italy is a spaghetti restaurant and not a country. A rioting mob is an animal beast with no capability for reason or rational thought so they should be treated as such. Shoot to kill.
Good luck in court with that attitude.
Where is the video of Michigan Avenue robbery?
Why is the “News Media” HIDING IT?
Oh good, so we’re back to looting again? #sarcasm
Also, does this mean we’ll get a temporary break from covid? Or are we doing both at the same time now? Just trying to keep up.
The voters have spoken and they have nominated Kim Foxx for States Attorney in the Democratic primary where she won about 60 percent of the vote. She appears to be in no danger of being turned out of office. The voting public is well aware that her office does not consider shoplifting a prosecutable crime if no individual lifts more than $950 worth of merchandise. Chicago gave her a solid majority in favor of her policy of defining crime down, so why would anyone be surprised that this kind of crime(?) flourishes? So if you are a retailer, you are… Read more »
Chicago and Soros/Foxx have declared war on business. Any business that remains in Chicago deserves whatever comes next
Oh heck, we don’t need cops defending private shops so the taxpayers wallets are looted by the looters CPD lawsuits. Salvatore Ferragamo shop and other high-end stores can contract armed private security like Academi LLC (Blackwater) and the looters will vanish.
Then there’s the 59 Chicago gangs with 100,000 plus gang members. Chicago should hire military contractors with war zones experience like Academi LLC for the violent Gang neighborhoods. There. I fixed it for ya Lori. No POTUS intervention, no CPD lawsuits and no more out of control drug gang wars and high death counts.
Where are the videos? You are not going to tell me that their are none.
Why is the media hiding them?
Ha, ha–Sure the looters were the same mob of mostly white hippster trying to tear down Columbus statue? Not
We need to start shooting looters. Simple as that.
Do you think you’d want to pull that trigger? Maybe, but you’d be in a mountain of legal problems you’d regret for the rest of your days. Easy solutions are seldom all that workable in real life–just in one’s dreams, Dirty Harry.
If you’ve ever built a business then you would understand the need to prevent a lawless mob of rioters from destroying it. If you’ve ever read the Constitution then you’d understand your right to open fire on the looting mob.
Okay, but the “we” in your posting didn’t imply your retort’s claim that you were taking that position at all. “We” could have meant anyone at all simply seeing it as an outsider and acting as someone simply affronted by it. I can’t have been the only one to think that’s what you meant.
Well, let me please clarify: The Chicago Police Department – and that is a WE authorized by civil society – should be authorized to shoot looters. Period. This is violent mayhem far outside of the law and these looting rioters shouldn’t expect anything other than violence. Shoot. To. Kill. That will quickly end the looting. Perhaps you disagree. Perhaps you sympathize with them. Perhaps you think that looting a store is some form of reparations. Perhaps you are OK with stealing for social justice. Perhaps you love the idea of a progressive income tax and stealing from the successful, the… Read more »
What I think about your idea doesn’t matter in the least. But, let me put it in very simple terms: you’re far, far from the first guy ever to have that idea, and the courts have acted on it numerous times with citizens taking up arms and not being the immediately threatened target of that scene. To use deadly force when such circumstances apply will most likely land you in a world of hurt legally and to such extent that you’ll wish you’d not done so. Leave that kind of stuff to the people legally authorized to do it. The… Read more »
So when the mob comes for you don’t bother to call me or the CPD. You seem to be happy on your own. Shoot To Kill is too offensive for your timid view of humanity so good luck with that.
Until then, enjoy your SEIU pension until Illinois is bankrupt. Then I’d suggest Gravy Train; I hear its pretty tasty with hot water.
Oh, what a Paine in the arse you are, Tom! All I’m trying to do is tell you to moderate what you personally would like to do. The civilized world can’t operate on each guy’s personal belief system as to what level of force needs to be applied in criminal circumstances and decidedly so when that person has lethal intent. Imagine there that leads. One guy is affronted by another guy’s race. Bang! Another guy is affronted by someone’s tattoo. Bang! A third guy thinks someone smirked at him. Bang! The real and often-given reasons for killing someone are almost… Read more »
Here’s my point: A rioting and looting mob is an animal. It is an irrational, ugly and vicious beast. It is humanity at it’s worst and is populated by willing participants. There is only way to deal with such a beast. So far, soft hearted politicians nationwide are unwilling to face this fact an are allowing the mob to grow and to thrive. They are abandoining their duty as public leaders and giving in to the tyranny of the mob. Either they allow the police to perform their societal function unhindered and unrestrained and to police or citizens are forced… Read more »
You are entitled to your opinion, and a great many others share it. But, you will not anytime soon see the police “unhindered” and “unrestrained.” If you want it otherwise, you’ll likely find it in an autocratic society more to your likely where one man’s version of swhat should be the law is THE LAW. For better or worse, here its quite different. Just don’t go down with your personalguns a-blazin’ when someone doesn’t meet your personal standards as to what’s egregiously wrong behavior, my friend.
Each state has unique laws about the justifiable use of deadly force.