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he did,
dude was from Indianapolis, his family should’ve already told him to be easy over that way.
pull out a handgun in a neighborhood of city & county cops brehs.
Tanahashi Coates
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he did,
dude was from Indianapolis, his family should’ve already told him to be easy over that way.
pull out a handgun in a neighborhood of city & county cops brehs.
he did,
dude was from Indianapolis, his family should’ve already told him to be easy over that way.
pull out a handgun in a neighborhood of city & county cops brehs.
caping for your former racist neighbors huh?
606onit
Superstar
The God Poster
LWO representa
It’s over. Even the union can’t save them
606onit
Superstar
Unions, especially public sector ones, were started with good intentions but too much scum have infiltrated them. Half the battle with these shyt cops is they have the backing of the FOP which is filled with racist ass beauracrats
beenz
Rap Guerilla
man look at these pieces of shyt. they are chilling in the congressman's office on 55th and wentworth at the same time looters are pillaging all the stores in the EXACT same strip mall where they are sleeping. You can't make this shyt up.
Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
Police lounge while looters ransacked Englewood businesses.PROVIDED
Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
Video shows officers napping and making popcorn in a South Side congressman's office while looters destroyed local businesses nearby, Rep. Bobby Rush and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
PUBLISHED ONJUN 11, 2020 1:18PM CDTDOWNTOWNPRIMARY CATEGORY IN WHICH BLOG POST IS PUBLISHED
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CHICAGO — A group of Chicago Police officers entered Rep. Bobby Rush’s closed Englewood office and lounged, napped and made popcorn, doing nothing while looters destroyed South Side businesses nearby, video shows.
Rush, whose office is at 55th Street and South Wentworth Avenue, said he got a call that his office had been burglarized during the widespread looting and vandalism that took place throughout the city early June 1.
After viewing security footage, Rush’s staff saw a group of about eight uniformed police officers enter the office while looting took place nearby. The officers napped, made popcorn, coffee, played on their phones and generally lounged, the congressman said.
At one point, as many as 13 officers — including three supervisors — were in the office relaxing while nearby businesses suffered, officials said.
While the officers weren’t the ones who broke the glass to the congressman’s office, according to video footage, “they definitely made themselves at home in a place that wasn’t theirs,” a spokesman for Rush said.
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“They even had the unmitigated gall to go and make coffee for themselves and some popcorn — my popcorn — in my microwave while looters were tearing apart businesses within their sight, within their reach,” Rush said. “They were in a mode of relaxation and they did not care about what was happening to businesspeople, to this city. They didn’t care. They absolutely didn’t care.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed the officers during a Thursday news conference, vowing to hold them accountable.
“Perhaps what is most harmful about this is that for so many people on the South and the West side, the actions of these officers, the deplorable lack of responsibility to do their job at a time when the city and their fellow officers needed them most, their conduct will confirm the perception that too many people on the South and the West side were left to fend for themselves, that police don’t care that Black and Brown communities were looted and burned,” Lightfoot said.
“These individuals did, indeed, abandon their responsibilities and their obligation and their oath to serve and protect. We should all be disgusted, and we should all feel hurt and betrayed in this moment of all moments.”
Rush, a longtime civil rights leader, was appalled by the video. His younger sister died the morning of that incident, he said, and his family has been in mourning, which is why the video wasn’t released until now.
“That these police officers while on duty, in uniform, … how they took such a lackadaisical attitude, a noncaring attitude, violating my personal space while looting was occurring all around them. They didn’t care,” Rush said.
South and West side businesses were hit particularly hard by looting and vandalism. Some grocery stores and pharmacies have yet to reopen, forcing residents to travel long distances to get essential food and medicine.
South Side neighborhood leaders and elected officials previously said police were nowhere to be found during this looting and criticized Lightfoot for having so much security — including the National Guard — Downtown.
Police Supt. David Brown said the days of looking the other way when officers are involved with excessive force or misconduct are over.
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“The behavior reflects leadership,” Brown said. “It’s a hard truth to take when you’re a leader, that you’re responsible for the behavior of others. And we had an exchange about consequences for this type of behavior that we’ve seen — not just what happened at the … congressman’s office, but the other behavior: officer giving the finger, homophobic slurs, excessive force. That behavior reflects our leadership. Officers asleep during a riot with supervisors in tow reflects our leadership.”
Englewood businesses damaged by looting and vandalism.
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Brown said he was told by members of the department he was being “too harsh” by relieving officers of their police powers in recent weeks.
“Move or get out of the way, but we are going to uphold the nobility of this profession,” Brown said. “We will be accountable to the Chicagoans that deserve a department they can be proud of. That this conduct is not representative; but if it’s not, let’s do something about it. Let’s now be the good cops that hold the bad cops accountable by rooting them out of this profession. Period. No question mark. No gray area.
“If you sleep during a riot, what are you doing during a regular shift when there’s no riot? … What makes you comfortable enough a supervisor won’t hold you accountable? … step up or step out. I’m not playing.”
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Live action news drop
Client of mine is getting picked up downtown and as I’m parking the bus a white officer asks me to move up because the politicians finished their conference and don’t wanna be held up trying to leave. Aight I got no problem with that, my client however clearly does as he’s handicapped and fired the fukk off on the cop. Throws all types of jackass, a$$holes insults.
This is causing attention and as it’s happening the aldermen and politicians start to come out and seeing all this shyt. So after getting a feel Bobby Rush asks me what’s going on and after explaining tells me to go ahead and put my client in the bus. Then the police officer gravels to me with thanks and appreciation for helping making the situation go by.
Call my mom and explain and she tells me that Bobby rush was just on tv having a press conference to report that during the looting on the south side, 14 police officers are seen on tape going into his office sitting down chillin, popping popcorn in his microwave....all while we the community wondering why downtown getting all the attention.
So him and Lori was on tv hot....those cops are done and she apparently told them come on in or we will find you....
Client of mine is getting picked up downtown and as I’m parking the bus a white officer asks me to move up because the politicians finished their conference and don’t wanna be held up trying to leave. Aight I got no problem with that, my client however clearly does as he’s handicapped and fired the fukk off on the cop. Throws all types of jackass, a$$holes insults.
This is causing attention and as it’s happening the aldermen and politicians start to come out and seeing all this shyt. So after getting a feel Bobby Rush asks me what’s going on and after explaining tells me to go ahead and put my client in the bus. Then the police officer gravels to me with thanks and appreciation for helping making the situation go by.
Call my mom and explain and she tells me that Bobby rush was just on tv having a press conference to report that during the looting on the south side, 14 police officers are seen on tape going into his office sitting down chillin, popping popcorn in his microwave....all while we the community wondering why downtown getting all the attention.
So him and Lori was on tv hot....those cops are done and she apparently told them come on in or we will find you....
The God Poster
LWO representa
Agree w public sector unions. However I dont want to lump Labor unions w them. Labor unions are an adversary to Capital. The degradation of labor unions have really hurt the workers of our country.
Police unions aren’t adversaries to Capital. They’re allies of it. Police unions enrich themselves to protect the capital of our prison industrial complex. They don’t protect the people they’re sworn to. They gotta go.
Get fired and CTA sued cause you wanted to get involved in some shyt. Dumb ass.
On another note, somebody posted a still of dude on the ground and captioned "Batman - Now talk!"
