{"id":1806,"date":"2020-08-12T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:53:14","slug":"chicago-sees-new-level-of-crime-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sees New Level of Crime and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Monday, August 10<sup>th<\/sup>, Don Babwin of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/officer-safety\/articles\/13-chicago-cops-hurt-amid-looting-over-100-arrests-0a2hLNq7qCE8p7kS\/\">reports<\/a> that the city of Chicago hit a new level of crime, resulting in more than 100 arrests.\u00a0 Shortly after midnight, the city suffered looting and unrest that damaged its Magnificent Mile district and left 13 officers injured.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police Superintendent David Brown clarified that it was \u201cnot an organized protest,\u201d but instead an \u201cincident of pure criminality\u201d that had begun shortly after a police officer shot an individual on Sunday in Chicago\u2019s Englewood neighborhood.\u00a0 The rioting was triggered by a police response Sunday afternoon to a call reporting a person with a gun.\u00a0 When officers identified the suspect and attempted to confront him, he fled on foot, shooting at them as he ran away.\u00a0 Officers returned fire, wounding him and recovering the gun.\u00a0\u00a0 Brown noted that shortly after midnight, while monitoring social media following the incident, he came \u201cacross a post of a caravan of cars being\u00a0 prompted to go to our downtown and loot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Along the Magnificent Mile, looters were seen coming in and out of stores, carrying shopping bags full of merchandise. All through the downtown area lay now-empty cash drawers from stores and gutted ATMS. As the crowds grew, vehicles dropped off more people in the area.\u00a0 Stores miles away were also ransacked with parking lots left littered with glass and items from inside the stores, along with clothes hangers and empty electronics boxes.\u00a0 At one point early Monday, shots were fired at the police, who returned fire.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfood labeled the incident as \u201cstraight up, felony criminal conduct. This was an assault on our city.\u201d Those arrested face charges of looting, disorderly conduct, and battery against the police.\u00a0 But as New Your Post writer Jorge Fitz-Gibbon <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/11\/black-lives-matter-organizer-calls-chicago-looting-reparation\/\">reports<\/a>, Black Lives Matter organizer Ariel Adams defended the looting, \u201cI don\u2019t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci\u2019s or a Macy\u2019s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s a reparation,\u201d Atkins said. \u201cAnything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Monday, August 10th, Don Babwin of the Associated Press reports that the city of Chicago hit a new level of crime, resulting in more than 100 arrests.\u00a0 Shortly after midnight, the city suffered looting and unrest that damaged its Magnificent Mile district and left 13 officers injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicago Sees New Level of Crime and Violence - Crime &amp; 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