Black Friday is a very important day for a lot of shops. If you are working on a small profit margin the boost you get from Holiday Sales are very important. Vital even. Not just the small Mom and Pops. Even the biggest Department stores depend on the bump up in Sales from the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. Which starts with Black Friday and concludes with Cyber Monday.
The Scholars that infest the Black Lives Matter Movement have decided to do all they can to disrupt sales across the nation. They attacked Macy's in New York before the Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. They are especially rabid in Chicago. Breibart News reports:
Black Friday in Chicago: ‘No Justice–No Shopping!
Breibart.com by 27 Nov 2015Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.
The 17-year-old was killed in October 2014, and was apparently armed with a knife at the time. Video of the shooting released on Tuesday, however, shows that he was walking away from police at the time he was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Turnout was strong despite 39-degree weather and rainy conditions. Demonstrators shouted “16 shots!” and “No justice, no shopping!”
The march started at Michigan and Wacker Drive and began walking north. They include demonstrators from the Nation of Islam, which is marching under the banner of “Justice of Else”; RevCom, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH coalition.
The latter group is marching slowly, while the other groups have pushed ahead, effectively taking up five city blocks along Michigan Ave., with hundreds of Chicago Police Department officers lining the streets.
Various groups begin marching down Michigan Ave in protest of Mayor@RahmEmanuel‘s handling of #LaquanMcDonald vid.pic.twitter.com/FF0XbYMOZ0— The Chicago Reporter (@ChicagoReporter) November 27, 2015
Protesters are attempting to gain access to major department stores and shopping malls. Police turned them away at the entrance to Water Tower Place, but they continue to try to enter other shopping areas with the intention of blocking commerce from taking place. As of noon, the protesters were walking toward the John Hancock tower.
(Update 1:00 p.m.: Several stores have been blocked and effectively shut down, including Macy’s, H&M, and others over six blocks. Shoppers are either stuck inside the stores or cannot enter. Some shuffle by, as protesters shout at them. Michigan Avenue itself, normally filled with traffic, is empty.)
In conversations with demonstrators, Breitbart News has learned that the groups plan to target the Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world’s most important commodities exchanges, in future demonstrations. The aim is to do as much economic damage as possible while drawing attention to perceived racism and abuse by the Chicago Police Department.
The police have struggled to manage the city’s rise in crime in recent years, and now labor under new suspicions of prejudice and political corruption.
(Rant: Most people don't understand the joys of retail. People don't want to shop. But they do it on the Holiday season. Many have turned to on-line for all of their shopping. Brick and mortar stores can become a thing of the past. I went to Macy's in Herald Square on Tuesday. I would guesstimate that 70 to 80% of the employees were minorities. Thousands of people get their rice bowl from Macy's. If the store closes they are out on the street. I can understand why the Black Lives Matters people don't care. But they should realize that they won't be able to shop lift if everything goes on-line)
32 comments:
If people can't shop on "Black Friday" won't they just shop later? Isn't all this buying tied to the Christmas Shopping season?
I can remember when people didn't start shopping for Christmas until mid-December.
Brink and mortar have been dying since Amazon... Besides these savages don't care about anyone but themselves . Jesse Jackson will be there until he gets his payoff. And then he will make some statement to the press and leave
It's stuff like this that could turn IL red. Corruption That Works is supposed to keep the hooligans in line so the real people can do their thing. When Corruption That Works doesn't, people get nasty.
The murder rate only affects blacks, this is an attack on white people's money. Daley got it.
Tippytoes doesn't. Breitbart calls this a "victory", but I think it's gonna bite the Demos.
It isn't the corruption of the Democrat Party that will bring it down, it's the stultifying incompetence.
rcocean said...
If people can't shop on "Black Friday" won't they just shop later? Isn't all this buying tied to the Christmas Shopping season?
I can remember when people didn't start shopping for Christmas until mid-December.
Black Friday is big for the retailers' bottom line.
And I remember when you didn't hear or see anything Christmas until Thanksgiving.
Trump fan said...
Besides these savages don't care about anyone but themselves . Jesse Jackson will be there until he gets his payoff.
Didn't you see, the Rev was front and center, stealing DeRanged McKesson's thunder and the BlackLivesMatter crowd is none too happy about it.
If you can't differentiate between the fact that this cop is in jail facing murder charges and these thugs and the criminal lobby are protesting to extort money from these stores then you are naive and not a savvy street smart guy. That's a reality show for you.
Jesse Jackson is front and center and demanding his cut. How many youtes are killed every week in Chicago? This knucklehead was shot by a cop. Who is being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The law that the Black Lives Matter crowd want to throw out the window. Why aren't they standing out front of a crack house demanding that they stop killing eight year old kids?
Because this is a racket plain and simple. No different than Joe Colombo and the Italian American Civil Rights League.
Never ceases to amaze me, really, how outfits like BLM can find almost any excuse to protest. I do agree that the investigation took way too long, and the timing of the video release was driven by a court order (A FOIA case the city lost),l un short, everyone sucked in this case...but really, after the fact, just WHAT do these "protesters" want? Ca-Ching....that's my guess. No one really cares about the dead guy IMO.
It will always puzzle me how anyone, police officer or civilian, could fire 16 times, many in to the back, once the purported assailant was down. Even when I was in dangerous places I would never have thought of that...conservation of ammo and resource was paramount...this was an act of insanity or a mental breakdown. How did he know another potential assailant wasn't waiting for him? If he knew for sure, then his action was pure intentional murder and the motive was fear and cowardice.
Pay me no mind...I know longer understand this world we live in today.
Ari in your vast experience with such situations I bet you saw people panic many times and shoot off a whole magazine. That is obviously what this cop did. Cops are not super men. Some of them make mistakes. They panic and once they start shooting they don't stop. This happened in New York with the Sean Bell case. Adrenaline starts pumping and the cop panics and just bursts off the whole magazine. Most cops never pull their guns let alone shoot it. This cop will face a jury of his peers.
On the other hand a drug gang took a nine year old kid and shot him to death in an alley. Why don't these "activists' stand in front of the crack house and stop that commerce? Why don't they recognize the daily murder of the members of their own community?
You know why. This is a racket. Plain and simple. They should be able to protest. They should set up designated areas for them to protest until their hearts content. That is how Giuliani handled it. What he didn't do is let them stop traffic and block shopping and bring the city to a standstill to extort money from shop keepers.
Nobody is defending the cop. That is the strawman here. He is facing a court of law and a trial by a jury of his peers. Just as the knuckleheads who stopped people from shopping should face the law. They can protest all they want but they can't disrupt legitimate businesses when they are struggling to survive. Defending the BLM thugs who are extorting business is the issue. By letting them get away with this you are just setting yourself up for an escalation.
If you don't nip it in the bud you get the CVS in Ferguson Missouri. I have seen it. I live it every day. It is hard enough to make a living in a retail environment. Letting Jesse Jackson and the Black Muslims and the rest of these racketeers run rough shod over the shopping district is what is important here.
I repeat. Why don't these great concerned citizens go protest in front of a crack house. Why don't they protest in front of the house of the mutants who killed the nine year old boy because of a drug turf war. Could it be because they are in it for the Money? Lets ask Operation Push about that why doncha?
But I guess when you spend everyday reading cherry picked posts that further the delegitimization of the police you lose some perspective.
Why are people always so hung up on how many shots were fired? "He fired 15 times!!! OMG!!!
It only takes 1 bullet to kill you. Cops are taught, once you decide to shoot, keep on shooting till the suspect is incapacitated. I mean that's why you started to shoot in the first place.
I don't know why this Cop decided to shoot him while he was on the ground, but I assume once you start shooting its hard to stop. The Defense will probably argue the Perp was mortally wounded when he hit the ground so the extra shots were meaningless.
Really.. Glad to know what you think there pal. I don't hate Turley. I don't care enough to hate him. I think he is boring actually. His hatred of the police runs deep.
And I don't hate everybody. I love Trump. Our next reality star President.
I didn't close my blog. I am just taking a break. I enjoy talking about substantive issues right here at Lems?
It is all I have time for now as I am very busy.
No kidding.
This case is murder. The first shot was illegal. Emptying his gun was maniacal evil that needs dealt with swift and hard. America isn't worth a shit if the cops can do this, and this guy acting as an arm of a government of supposedly limited powers almost got away with it, because that same government tried to cover it up. I'm in total agreement with protesting the act and the cover up. The cop will get his, but will the tyrants that enabled him?
BLM is indeed a bunch of mindless, immoral, opportunists who can't see anything but race, but sooner or later they were bound to get one right, even if they remain too stupid and racist to go after the right people.
Trooper York said...
Ari in your vast experience with such situations I bet you saw people panic many times and shoot off a whole magazine.
I'd not call it "vast", but sufficient. Of course, you are right. However those who panicked and blew away whole magazines at one guy or ghosts frequently wound up dead. There were few circumstances that called for just blazing away, such as at a wood line or to provide cover for others moving forward...and then you had another magazine in hand ready to reload near instantly, once you flipped the tapped together magazines in the rifle. That could amount to 90 rounds or so of fire. In those days there was always another enemy just around the bush, corner, tree, or in a doorway. On "empty" you might be toast unless you were very expert at reloading another magazine...even then, the seconds counted. Better not to be "empty". Better to leave a couple rounds in a magazine and reload a full one than to be standing there "empty." I agree this guy panicked and now he will pay for it....as did his target.
It might be noteworthy that my favorite pistol (the FNX-45) will handle 15 round magazines, but I don't own one and always carry 10 round magazines...usually just the one in the pistol. No plans to blaze away...accuracy is a better option. As a civilian now I figure it's my responsibility to make a firearm my very last resort.
A caveat to the "always an enemy around the corner" meme is you also needed the presence of mind to be sure the next person you saw was really an enemy and not some curious or scared innocent. You cannot think clearly like that if you are panicked. But, yeah...that happened now and then by those carried away. I never ever wanted it to be me and still don't. It helps if you can develop a cold/deliberate emotional switch for times like those. I managed it. It's automatic if I am threatened with harm...just happens.
The thing is if you have 20,000 cops like the NYPD or however many they have in Chicago there is a good chance you will get one of these guys that will panic and make a tragic error. It wasn't a premeditated murder. He didn't stalk a nine year old boy and murder him to send a message. He screwed and he will pay the price.
I could never be a cop. I don't have the self control. I think I would blast them like I was Wild Bill Hickock or something. I don't know why anyone would want to be a cop these days.
Nick ... I know a lot of cops, and no one of them would react as this POS did in a fearful panic. So you're right about that. That said, a couple of them have been pilloried for firing two shots, both lethal and necessary. They survived the accusations and continued their careers. But it wasn't easy for them top do so. Our STRESS detail (Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) was abolished by those who preferred the savages not be stopped. Now every city, but ours, has one of these details, by any other name, and they work.
So being a bad cop is mutually exclusive with panicking and shooting off a whole magazine. The fact that he is a bad cop makes it more likely that he would act this way. Let me repeat for those with a lack of reading comprehension: I AM NOT SUPPORT THIS COP! He is a bad cop. A terrible cop. A cocky doo doo cop. Whatever! That does not preclude the fact that he would panic and shoot off his whole magazine. I bet Ari would agree that a "bad solider" would do the same thing.
It was tragic that this thief was shot and killed under color of authority. He should have gone to jail for a few hours and then be freed to continue to rob and steal and generally be a valuable member of society.
The "bad" cop should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The cops who shot the whole mag in the Sean Bell case in New York were not "bad cops." They had no complaints. In fact the supervisor who shot the most was never in the field at all. People panic. Good people. "Bad" people. A "bad cop" is predisposed to shoot his way out of a problem.
So being a bad cop is mutually exclusive with panicking and shooting off a whole magazine. The fact that he is a bad cop makes it more likely that he would act this way. Let me repeat for those with a lack of reading comprehension: I AM NOT SUPPORT THIS COP! He is a bad cop. A terrible cop. A cocky doo doo cop. Whatever! That does not preclude the fact that he would panic and shoot off his whole magazine. I bet Ari would agree that a "bad solider" would do the same thing.
It was tragic that this thief was shot and killed under color of authority. He should have gone to jail for a few hours and then be freed to continue to rob and steal and generally be a valuable member of society.
The "bad" cop should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Nick ... A tactical squad is not the same as our old "STRESS" detail (part of the felony prevention section). The former is incident oriented,(and we still have that), the latter was every day all day every where...a civilian clothed decoy operation with on the scene civilian clothed tactical back up close by. No one had anything to fear from STRESS if they weren't accosting or trying to rob someone or some place. The politicians of the day made it a racial issue and it was gone. They seemed surprised statistically that a city at that time 80% black would have a majority in perpetrators...it was an easy target for them. Yet one of the toughest of all the STRESS operators was black....wherever he walked down a street everyone of all hues called him Mister Sxxxx...just in case. He got jammed up when he and his team raided a County Sheriff's group for running an on going gamboling den. That law enforcement would be doing that hacked him off. He survived the crap thrown his way, but STRESS overall did not. Today, if you get attacked on the street chances are there is no "Mr Sxxxx" & crew coming on fast to save you...now they send an EMT wagon at best. The "Big Four" cruisers were re-established, finally, but bad ass as they are, they can't be as wide spread as the old STRESS guys. Word to the wise here...if you see a big four cruiser going by, be on your very best behavior. One Big four crew leader I knew just didn't have any fear, usually carried a Thompson sub-machine gun or had it handy, and was known to break up a robbery of a bar or store by just walking in moving fast and instantly shooting the perpetrators dead.
Trooper York ... yes, (as I said earlier) I agree a "bad" solider would do the same thing and several did. It usually cost them their lives or nearly so when they got caught on "empty." There were only certain circumstances where blazing away made sense and that was usually as covering fire (keep the enemy heads down) for others advancing....and even then you made sure you had a near instant reload ready to go. It might also be used if one came upon a tree line and had an open zone to cross...."recon by fire" on the tree line by a couple guys was often used to at least give the heebie jeebies to anyone hiding in the tree line.
Truth be told I can't tell from the story told here about this cop whether he was scared and panicked or just angry and lost control. Either way, he ignored the basic rule...your supply of ammunition is always finite. Use it up and you might not go home.
Nick ... I agree with you. Whatever happened, fear, panic, or anger, that "shitbird" should never have been a police officer. Period. Those who made him one and overlooked his past screw ups are to blame almost as much as he is...but we won't see/hear that IMO.
I get it that the officer might have thought a loon with a knife was a danger to others, but his reaction was over the top once the man was down. I carry a pistol almost everywhere (not in hospitals, etc.) but I'd can't fathom his firing 16 times, at one man already down, for all the reasons I've cited earlier. "Shitbird" is an apt description, one we all heard when in uniform I suspect.
To be fair, even with my experiences, scant as it is, I truly cannot fathom shooting at any one person 16 times, especially if they are down already. Thus I guess I am not qualified to comment on him. I have no idea just what was going on in his mind...all my thoughts are conjecture. And...I wasn't there, an important aspect. Trooper has remarked that I must have seen someone blazing away before, and he's right...but I have never seen all 15+ shots directed at one man. I just don't understand it.
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