The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week, and Chicago businesses are getting ready…by boarding up their widows and doors.
Chicago business owners, reeling since the lootings and vandalism that occurred during the 2020 civil uprisings, are taking no chances with the thousands of anti-Israel activists who are set to arrive at the Windy City’s downtown area this week to “shut down the DNC for Gaza.”
Although the Democratic National Convention is set to kick off Monday, business owners in the downtown area have already taken measures to protect their stores from belligerent rioters, boarding up their windows and barricading their doors. By Thursday, several storefronts had been shielded by plywood, local media outlets reported.
“As we know, this city has a poor track record when it comes to protecting businesses,” a local store owner, Scott Shapiro, told ABC Chicago. “We felt it was more prudent to board up, since our customers and their employers have told them to stay home throughout the convention for their own safety.”
Mr. Shapiro’s menswear shop on Clark Street, Syd Jerome, nearly went out of business four years ago after it was repeatedly ransacked and lost nearly $100,000 in merchandise. His shop was just one of the businesses that suffered from repeated break-ins during the George Floyd protests that took hold of Chicago in summer 2020.
Gee, do you think it’s possibly that all those “pro-Palestinian” protesters descending on Chicago just might want to loot and torch a shop run by someone who’s last name is “Shapiro”?
The owner of Chicago Board-Up Services, Vicki Fichter, said her crew has already worked on more than a dozen businesses in the past week and she has received more than 40 requests for board-up jobs in the downtown area.
“We’re boarding them up tight, so that there’s no entry,” Ms. Fichter told ABC.
Sounds like Chicago business owners know exactly what “mostly peaceful” Democratic Party activism looks like.
Another sign of the fun and games in store for Chicago? Someone has been delivering pallets of bricks to various locations in Chicago.
As the Democratic National Convention (DNC) approaches, Chicago has noticed a concerning trend that has raised alarm among residents and law enforcement. Pallets of bricks have mysteriously appeared on street corners, sparking speculation that the city could experience a new wave of organized chaos similar to other violent protests of previous years.
The presence of these bricks is not an isolated incident but a strategy with a well-known history. In the summer of 2020, similar deliveries were reported in various cities across the United States, including Minneapolis, New York, and Portland. These cities experienced protests against police brutality that turned into riots. Authorities and citizens connected these pallets of bricks to groups such as Antifa, alleging that the groups used them to arm protesters and stoke violence under the guise of legitimate demonstrations.
(Hat tip: Director Blue.)
Worse still for Chicago, the police seem to be calling in sick. “According to some reports on social media, more than 1,000 officers are calling in sick.” (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
What’s more, the perimeter security is evidently easily breached. And protesters have already breached the outer perimeter fence.
It seems that some social justice factions of the Democratic Party actively want destructive riots, even when they harm Democrats and Democrat-run cities, presumably to keep other factions in line. This time around, the riots will ostensibly be about the Israel Hamas War (which, much to the frustration of jihad-friendly social justice warriors, Israel is winning handily), but we know that even if the Middle East were enjoying a rare respite of peace, the brick hurlers would just find another reason to riot…
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A scratch group calling itself ‘Delegates Against Genocide’ will offer amendments to the Democratic Party platform and use their rights as delegates to to take control of the convention floor during major speeches. Since the nominations are settled, there will be a lot of time for Israel bashing. Expect a major fight over a plank requiring an arms embargo upon Israel. Since there are no nominations to cover, the media may provide ‘Delegates Against Genocide’ quite a bit of coverage.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have scheduled “DemPalooza” events every day, 9 to 5, at the McCormack Place Center to keep delegates engaged before each evening’s proceedings. These occur about 5 miles from the security perimeter of the actual convention at the United Center. So almost all delegates will be exposed to the hospitality of Hamas supporters as they are shuttled back and forth daily.
While Dearborn, Michigan has the highest percentage of MENA residents, Chicago has more ‘Palestinians’ by count than any city in America.
The DNC should provide an entertaining launch to the Harris/Waltz campaign.
My question about the bricks is, who is the vendor? They have a heavy delivery truck with a forklift (pallets, right?) And somehow delivering pallets of bricks to random street locations that are not construction sites is viewed as normal.
As an aside, if you order bricks here, the drivers are particular about not blocking sidewalks, right of ways, and easements. Because they have and want to keep insurance.
So something is extremely funky about this.
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What I’m hearing is that there are free landscaping materials available around Chicago for those able to cart them off.
I call bullshit on the brick story. If you don’t have pictures of the bricks (and the surrounding area to show it’s not a construction site) and a map showing the location of each pictured pallet, you’re being catfished by the Dems. Easily refuted stories like this make anyone passing them around look like liars or fools.
I would like to see better photographic evidence of present-day brick deliveries in Chicago.
Buddhaha:
THere is a picture of pallets of bricks in a parking lot ‘claiming’ to be near the DNC in the linked article. It doesn’t have context and could be a construction site but there’s no fencing or temporary barriers in the photo….
insurrection! where are the nukes and F-15s?
God forbid the city send out trucks to collect those bricks before they can be used.
(BTW: A better Bette Davis meme would be “This place is a dump!”)
FKH
FTW
TRUMP4EVR!
Chicago’s businesses are “boarding up their *widows* and doors?” Seems awfully extreme.
come on where are the pictures? Where are the locations of the so-called piles of bricks? I called BS on the story.
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