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Comment: "Protesters"? A vicious mob attacked cops and tried to tear down the statue, with no provocation. Unlike other cities, Chicago cops stopped them.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Check out http://www.history.com and search Columbus then “Why Columbus day courts controversy” Just doing some research myself. There was an article in the local paper about Columbus and I will try to find it. How true this is anyone’s guess.
Columbus trafficked in under age Indian girls to Europe.
Columbus was a very bad man. To have a holiday or statue is like having a holiday for Hitler.
Fake news! You don’t know what you’re talking about and as a matter of fact, most of us would not be here if it were not for Christopher Columbus. Take your Marxist garbage to a different site.
Do a google search, you will be surprised just how bad he was.
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Trump the Impaler are nicer than Columbus.
Illinois “Land of Slavery”
Go away you pro anarchist pro domestic terrorist BLM scum.
Cristoffa Corombo statues are modern day idolatry. ☹️
“I never argue with a FOOL. Onlookers may not know the difference” – Mark Twain
Mark Twain and Cristoffa Corombo were racist! ☹️
Cristoffa Corombo “discovered” portions of Central America, the Caribbean and South America. ?
We’d be here, if Corombo never existed. The Native Peoples, whom Corombo destroyed, found their way here. ?
“After the pepper spray was deployed, those in the crowd were visibly in pain, some collapsing as they gasped for air in the heat.”
And my response to that is, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Chicago is on the cuspid of total destruction and there is only one person to blame beetle juice she is more worried about bashing POTUS while her city is burning to the ground. Hope your happy little lady because eventually people will come after you
I remember the riots of 1968. Today’s police should use the same tactics. Everyone understands pain.
I guess Lightfoot has a handle on things in Chicago.
So glad I do not live there.
I live in one of the high rises in South Loop and witnessed it from my apartment in person. It resembled the Battle of Bull Run. The cops that fortified the statue were outnumbered 4-1 while on receiving end of projectiles and fireworks. They deserve public recognition for their bravery. I will say it louder: BLM/ANTIFA is a junior varsity para military Marxist operation. STOP GIVING THEM A PLATFORM.
We have to watch this carefully as already the idiotic media and domestic terrorists are talking about police brutality. Foxx will drop all charges. It’s time to stop this nonsense.
Police are heros!
Imagine if the helicopter mommies and daddies kicked out their freeloading junior varsity para military marxist basement deplorable snowflakes. Or stop making mortgage payments on the trendy Chi-town condos for their poor misunderstood 14th placed trophy snowflakes.
To me it looked like the The Battle of Little Big Horn. Cops need heavier clubs rather than those dinky broomsticks they have now.
(and/or some 5.56;) )
Finally the police were allowed to do their jobs. These aren’t protesters. They are vandals and rioters. And dont overlook the fact that a store at 900 N Mich got looted last night. That must have been done in support of human rights, correct?
Yes, because Free S*** Matters.
Agree with Lana. If you don’t want to get pepper sprayed or smacked with a baton, STAY HOME. Nobody (except George Soros) forced them to be there.
Thank You BLUE!