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Black Lives Matter turned their outrage on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Monday,  warning that the civil unrest that has plagued the city over summer would continue until “the safety and well-being of our communities is finally prioritized.”

Interesting logic, no? Protect our city and prioritize our safety or we’ll attack the city and commit random acts of violence on innocent civilians.

Translation: “Make us safe so we can stop being violent!”

“The mayor clearly has not learned anything since May (when rioters and looters went mostly unpunished), and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the [Chicago Police Department] is abolished and our Black communities are fully invested in,” the group said in a statement.

General Observation: If one is under the assumption that Chicago Police Officers are responsible for the astronomical rate of black-on-black homicides in the city, it would probably be most wise indeed to create FEWER opportunities to interact with law enforcement, not MORE. Simply put: rioting and looting tend to attract the attention of law enforcement. Stop doing it.

Fun Fact: As of July 2020, the number of homicides in the city of Chicago had surpassed 432, according to the Chicago Tribune.  Care to take a guess at how many of those homicides involved police officers shooting unarmed black people?  Nah, why involve facts in an illogical war of conflicting ideologies?

What IS true is that since the Coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., a disproportionate number of black people in Chicago have lost their jobs, incomes, and homes. Poverty, anger, homelessness, and hunger tend to bring out the very worst in human nature, and cities run by Democrats are ground zero for those horrific challenges in the black community.

Defund Democrats – not police.

(PLEASE NOTE: The views and opinions expressed in this editorial are solely those of the author and do not reflect the views and/or opinions of WIBC or Emmis Communications)

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