Chicago police want Windy City residents to crack down on looters robbing their city.
The department on Wednesday launched a website “Looting & Civil Unrest Videos” with movie music for surveillance of the Mayhem of Sunday in the city – and the cops are asking the community to sob the criminals.
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“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 criminals so we can arrest and prosecute them. Camera recordings are only valuable if our officers and detectives can identify the persons caught on cameras committing the crime. We need the help of everyone 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 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 policemen appear and try to keep the tide from looting. Another shows a man with a mask accidentally unpacking merchandise in a Sunglass Hut as if he were shopping.
“Watch these videos,” Deenihan said. ‘Someone knew for sure the offenders were causing the destruction. So, please help us bring these criminals to justice. We need help getting 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 on Sunday.
Unscrupulous city officials responded by introducing security measures that restricted access to the heart of the city overnight and emptied the area in the Chicago Loop with cops assigned to work 12-hour shifts.
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In one defense of the looting, a Black Lives Matter organizer on Monday encouraged pillaging, calling it “repair.”
