Chicago PD launches looting video site to ID offenders
Police have launched a new “Looting & Civil Unrest Videos” website with surveillance footage from Sunday’s mayhem
Chicago police want Windy City residents to rat out the looters who trashed their city.
The department on Wednesday launched a “Looting & Civil Unrest Videos” website with surveillance camera footage from Sunday’s mayhem in the city — and the cops are asking the community to snitch on the offenders.
This was an attack on our city,” Chicago Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said at a briefing Wednesday. “We really need everyone’s help to identify these offenders so we can arrest and charge them. Camera footage is only valuable when our officers and detectives can identify the individuals caught on camera committing the crime. We need everyone’s help to do this.”
The site went live with a handful of videos but includes a link for business owners and residents to submit additional footage or tip off cops, which Deenihan said is expected to add a substantial amount of video to the site.
One shows about two dozen people breaking into a Nordstrom Rack store as cops show up and try to hold off the tide of looters. Another shows a man wearing a mask casually picking out merchandise inside a Sunglass Hut as if he were shopping.
Look at these videos,” Deenihan said. “Someone surely knows the offenders that are causing the destruction. So, please help us bring these criminals to justice. We need help to get them off the street and before a judge. These are obviously dangerous people.”
The website comes after 100 people were arrested and 13 cops were injured in violent clashes between police and looters Sunday into Monday.
Incensed city officials responded by enacting security measures that restricted access to the heart of the city overnight and blanketed the area inside the Chicago Loop with cops who have been ordered to work 12-hour shifts.
In one defense of the looters, a Black Lives Matter organizer on Monday encouraged the pillaging, calling it “reparation.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-pd-looting-video-site-offenders
Police have launched a new “Looting & Civil Unrest Videos” website with surveillance footage from Sunday’s mayhem
Chicago police want Windy City residents to rat out the looters who trashed their city.
The department on Wednesday launched a “Looting & Civil Unrest Videos” website with surveillance camera footage from Sunday’s mayhem in the city — and the cops are asking the community to snitch on the offenders.
This was an attack on our city,” Chicago Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said at a briefing Wednesday. “We really need everyone’s help to identify these offenders so we can arrest and charge them. Camera footage is only valuable when our officers and detectives can identify the individuals caught on camera committing the crime. We need everyone’s help to do this.”
The site went live with a handful of videos but includes a link for business owners and residents to submit additional footage or tip off cops, which Deenihan said is expected to add a substantial amount of video to the site.
One shows about two dozen people breaking into a Nordstrom Rack store as cops show up and try to hold off the tide of looters. Another shows a man wearing a mask casually picking out merchandise inside a Sunglass Hut as if he were shopping.
Look at these videos,” Deenihan said. “Someone surely knows the offenders that are causing the destruction. So, please help us bring these criminals to justice. We need help to get them off the street and before a judge. These are obviously dangerous people.”
The website comes after 100 people were arrested and 13 cops were injured in violent clashes between police and looters Sunday into Monday.
Incensed city officials responded by enacting security measures that restricted access to the heart of the city overnight and blanketed the area inside the Chicago Loop with cops who have been ordered to work 12-hour shifts.
In one defense of the looters, a Black Lives Matter organizer on Monday encouraged the pillaging, calling it “reparation.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-pd-looting-video-site-offenders
Chicago looters smash Ronald McDonald House with terrified sick kids inside
Sick kids and their families cowered in fear inside a Chicago Ronald McDonald House as looters smashed the front door while trying to get inside this week, according to staff.
The charity says more than 30 families, as well as some sick children with them, were left “frightened” by those who smashed windows as they ransacked the Windy City during Monday’s chaotic crime spree.
“They very concerned there was a lot of activity right in front of the house, people making choices that could put them at risk and put our families at risk so the staff was frightened,” Ronald McDonald House Charities’ Lisa Mitchell told ABC7.
The attacked property houses families so they and their children can be close to Lurie Children’s Hospital, which should be an easy and safe trip just five blocks away.
“They are already in a really, really difficult spot, and having this kind of additional stress and worry about getting to and from the hospital … because of safety concerns is just doubling the strain,” Mitchell said.
Several windows were smashed and the front door had to be boarded up, but nobody was injured, the charity said.
Mitchell told CBS Chicago that it was vital that families “get the rest they need while they have a child in the hospital seeking care.”
“So it’s so important that anything that might be going on outside, we maintain our care for families,” she stressed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...ald-mcdonald-house-with-sick-kids-inside/amp/
Sick kids and their families cowered in fear inside a Chicago Ronald McDonald House as looters smashed the front door while trying to get inside this week, according to staff.
The charity says more than 30 families, as well as some sick children with them, were left “frightened” by those who smashed windows as they ransacked the Windy City during Monday’s chaotic crime spree.
“They very concerned there was a lot of activity right in front of the house, people making choices that could put them at risk and put our families at risk so the staff was frightened,” Ronald McDonald House Charities’ Lisa Mitchell told ABC7.
The attacked property houses families so they and their children can be close to Lurie Children’s Hospital, which should be an easy and safe trip just five blocks away.
“They are already in a really, really difficult spot, and having this kind of additional stress and worry about getting to and from the hospital … because of safety concerns is just doubling the strain,” Mitchell said.
Several windows were smashed and the front door had to be boarded up, but nobody was injured, the charity said.
Mitchell told CBS Chicago that it was vital that families “get the rest they need while they have a child in the hospital seeking care.”
“So it’s so important that anything that might be going on outside, we maintain our care for families,” she stressed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...ald-mcdonald-house-with-sick-kids-inside/amp/
Peaceful protesters, nothing to see here......
They don’t care and expect civilized individuals to let them do whatever exactly for that reason...
We’ve all heard, let them take what they want, you have insurance and it’s better than losing your life ...
Well duh, almost nothing is worth losing your life over!!...
But, how much do we civilized, decent, respectful—however many positive adjectives needed—persons quietly watch the behavior of others continue??
I guess we say, (as I do) It’s not happening to me and there is nothing I can do to change it, so ignore it and move on with my own issues that impact my daily life.
We’ve all heard, let them take what they want, you have insurance and it’s better than losing your life ...
Well duh, almost nothing is worth losing your life over!!...
But, how much do we civilized, decent, respectful—however many positive adjectives needed—persons quietly watch the behavior of others continue??
I guess we say, (as I do) It’s not happening to me and there is nothing I can do to change it, so ignore it and move on with my own issues that impact my daily life.
