A bit more about the Chicago looting the other night. What happened according to the looters was that a black unarmed 15-year-old kid was shot and killed for no reason by police. What actually happened according to officers was that officers in Englewood shot and wounded a 20-year-old man who had fled and fired shots at them.
However, this didn’t stop the Englewood and wider black community from going 30 miles north to the mag mile and showing their outpouring of grief and righteous rage by smashing into every store over there and completely looting them. This is part of their healing of course.
BLM Chicago said they were ‘sceptical’ about the official events of the shooting. They called for reforms and suggested the man was right to flee authorities ‘given the departments history of racism’. They also criticised the officers for pursuing the armed man because of “the dangerous turn that footchases can take.”
So you’ve got a criminal who runs away from police, fires at them and gets shot. BLM criticises the fact that police chased him and that the suspect was right to flee the police.
BLM also held a demonstration in favour of the looters because looting stores “makes sure that person eats,” “That makes sure that person has clothes.”
“That is reparations,” said one of the organisers “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.”
You hear that? Black people have the right to steal shit, its reparations for what white people have done to them.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/
I can’t agree more. With the invisible hand of the white man keeping them down, black people shouldn’t have to follow the rules like everyone else. If they want to destroy stores, injure police officers and set things on fire because a guy got shot, that’s their right. Even if we conclude the officers were right, the looters are also still right, because this is reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.