Video taken in downtown Chicago last night, April 15th, painted a picture of a highly chaotic scene, with gunfire erupting as fights broke out and cars were vandalized in the crime-wracked city.
RawsAlerts, a breaking news-focused Twitter account, said “🚨#BREAKING: Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts.”
Continuing, the same account then said “There is currently a significant police response taking place in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing chaos. They have been smashing car windows, getting into fights, robbing people, and using mace. There have also been reports of multiple gunshots, and three teens have been shot while attempting to break into the Art Institute of Chicago.”
🚨#BREAKING: Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts
📌#Chicago | #Illinois ⁰
There is currently a significant police response taking place in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing chaos. They have been… pic.twitter.com/n7xhBpsTKs— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 16, 2023
Commenting on the video, people said things like “How a single cop is left working in that dumpster fire of a city is astounding. Pray for the men & women in blue” and “This Summer is going to be a nightmare for Chicago…”
That account was corroborated by NBC 5 Chicago’s reporting on Chicago’s nighttime chaos. According to that outlet, Chicago police had to handle two large crowds on Saturday night, one in Millennium Park and another at 31st Street Beach.
The gathering at 31st Street Beach appears to be the one in the RawsAlerts video, as NBC 5 reported that it “came to an end after a teenager was shot” and the video shows the chaos ending in gunfire.
One witness to the violent, chaotic scene said, “It’s heartbreaking, kids fighting, chasing each other, some of them got guns. It’s really heartbreaking when one of them actually gets hurt, and that’s unfortunate, happened last night. It was a lot of cops here, but they were still outnumbered. There were so many teenagers that showed up, and they tried to keep the peace and keep them under control.”
Unfortunately, the night’s chaos was far from the only bad news in Chicago. In addition to the gunfire and vandalism, Walmart announced that it was closing several stores in the city after years of theft and the 2020 burning, looting, and murdering, as Patriot Fetch’s Rob reported, saying:
In the wake of the death of George Floyd, many organizations and businesses, in an attempt to be woke and socially conscious wrote checks that ultimately they couldn’t cash. I’m not talking about actual checks, though those were handed out to grifting organizations like BLM like Halloween candy.
I am referring to misguided commitments to expand services and businesses in places where it was clear they shouldn’t be. There are reasons that companies like CVS and Walgreens and Cracker Barrel are fleeing woke, leftists cities. There’s also a reason you don’t see Walmart Supercenters in urban areas. They just don’t work.
Now, three years later Walmart is admitting as much, and shuttering several of their Chicago stores
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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