The City of Chicago took the extraordinary measure, in today’s political climate, of using the police to protect the statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park.
If you are unfamiliar with the statue, it was erected in 1933 to celebrate the centennial of the City of Chicago at the Century of Progress World’s Fair and was paid for by the Italian American community of Chicago.
Like every statue in America, except the statues of Lenin in New York and Seattle, the insane Left wanted to tear it down.
Black Lives Matter rioters are trying to take down the Christopher Columbus statue in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/UOqJ4dXfEu
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 18, 2020
What ensued Friday night could only be called the Battle of Grant Park. Twelve people were arrested and 18 police officers were injured.
Video from the scene is disturbing.
It's going down in Chicago. Rioters are attacking police in their attempt to take down a statue. pic.twitter.com/NMx70pF7m6
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 18, 2020
Chicago Police attacked with bottles and fireworks by people who are at a Christopher Columbus statue. pic.twitter.com/9rwZEOmcK4
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) July 18, 2020
Protesters launch fireworks and other items at Chicago police officers guarding Columbus statue in Grant Park pic.twitter.com/WCga8c47Ty
— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) July 18, 2020
First, the minor point: The protesters shouted, “Who do you protect?”
The answer is “law and order.” The people seem to think that “protect and serve” means “protect and serve” the interests of the mob.
The bigger issue here is the objects, including fireworks launched at police.
A glass bottle or rock to the head is potentially lethal, not to mention severely injurious.
Fireworks are worse. Fireworks are dangerous, especially the big mortar fireworks. A firework is more than capable of blowing a hand to shreds (graphic image).
So it makes me wonder when people are throwing bottles and rocks at police, when they are attacking police with literal explosives, when 18 officers are injured and several go to the hospital, is not lethal force justified?
When a “protester” is launching black powder mortars at police, it seems perfectly reasonable for a SWAT offer to respond with a 168 grain OTM.
If a couple of these middle-class, Antifa, revolutionaries with Che posters on their wall end up on a slab like their hero, the movement will die off quickly.
These kids didn’t sign up for a real firefight. They signed up to tournament police who are being held back by Leftist local government.
If the Police make it clear that trying a cave in a cop’s skull with a rock gets you a bullet for your trouble, all this shit will stop.
So riddle me this: throwing bottles and launching fireworks at cops is apparently vegan kosher but standing outside of a bar with rifles gets Meal Team 6 sent in with live ammo after you while cops flex around their MRAP?
And Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose on Saturday to support and protect the protesters.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2020/07/no-support.html
It seems that the writing is (has been) on the wall: Unass the blue hives, stat.
Or, do so as a fighting retreat.
Good luck with that. Combined arms gets kudos when they successfully pull that off.
My elderly, half trained, short fire team civilian ass?
NSVFM. Now, or after the excitement begins.
Okay, I give … couldn’t find it anywhere.
NSVFM?
Just change the name on the statue, the idiots trying to destroy it won’t know the difference
Yes, but consider how that worked for Gen. Grant.
Hey! Caption it as a Che statue! Watch the flowers pile up!
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