{"id":74402,"date":"2020-06-11T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74402"},"modified":"2020-06-11T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T11:04:49","slug":"transcripts-from-minneapolis-city-council-meeting-2024-brought-to-you-today-courtesy-of-the-city-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74402","title":{"rendered":"Transcripts From Minneapolis City Council Meeting, 2024, Brought To You Today Courtesy Of The City Of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Daily Caller published transcripts from the Chicago City Council&#8217;s &#8220;meltdown&#8221; during the riots.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/09\/chicago-looting-violence-rioting-aldermen-mayor-lori-lightfoot-leaked-call\/?fbclid=IwAR1-It8LGY7IyEBrw8Ol0JWmGjwEcY2cwqN2skwqYj_S5P28CFTygzA5LgE\">And it&#8217;s not pretty<\/a>.    It&#8217;s the sound of modern &#8220;progressive&#8221; urban government getting its ass smacked by reality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of the excerpts are of particular interest (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cA war zone.\u201d<br>Lopez said his district had turned into a \u201cwar zone\u201d as gang members were taking neighborhood security into their own hands. \u201cIt\u2019s just like a war zone right now \u2026 <strong>The gang members are now getting involved, walking around with AK-47s, threatening to shoot, I hate to say it, black people,<\/strong>\u201d Lopez said, whose district, the 15th Ward, has a large Hispanic population. Lopez previously said in a May 31 tweet that members of the Latin Saints gang were \u201cengaging and chasing looters\u201d in his ward.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latin Saints engaging and chasing looters in Back of the Yards<\/p>&mdash; Ald. Raymond Lopez (@RaymondALopez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaymondALopez\/status\/1267186617544060928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Huh.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; gang bangers in a city with rigid, comprehensive gun control, have &#8220;AK47s&#8221;?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere aren\u2019t enough cops.\u201d<\/p><p><em>\u201cRight now and I\u2019m sure I echo what everybody else has said, there aren\u2019t enough cops. We\u2019re getting overwhelmed in this thing,\u201d Burke said on the call. The mayor agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to fathom that we have 13,404 [officers], the highest headcount that we\u2019ve had in probably a decade, and given the volume of looting, it feels like we\u2019re a tiny police force,\u201d Lightfoot said.<\/em><\/p><p><em>\u201c<strong>Private citizens, they\u2019re going to become vigilantes, they\u2019re going to protect themselves<\/strong>, because the police aren\u2019t reachable, there\u2019s not enough men or women to respond when the call is made but the call doesn\u2019t get answered,\u201d Burke added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait &#8211; you mean if government doesn&#8217;t do one if its few legitimate jobs &#8211; preserving order &#8211; then people will do it themselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller published transcripts from the Chicago City Council&#8217;s &#8220;meltdown&#8221; during the riots. And it&#8217;s not pretty. It&#8217;s the sound of modern &#8220;progressive&#8221; urban government getting its ass smacked by reality. A couple of the excerpts are of particular interest (emphasis added by me): \u201cA war zone.\u201dLopez said his district had turned into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74402\/revisions\/74410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}