Chicago is in “total turmoil,” Chicago 9th Ward Mayor Anthony Beale told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
“I think the mayor has lost the trust and control of this city. “She’s listening to the wrong people and the wrong people are really leading this unrest in the city of Chicago,” he said of fellow Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
“The aldermen are the ones elected by their constituency and there is a total disregard for listening to the alderman who knows the post of this city and knows the post of their department.”
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Members of Black Lives Matter in Chicago held a rally on Monday to support the more than 100 arrested Sunday night after widespread looting and insurgency that caused at least $ 60 million in property damage and saw 13 police officers injured, according to a report.
The rally was organized by Black Lives Matter Chicago and was held at a police station in the South Loop, where organizers say individuals are being held in custody. At least one organizer called the looting tantamount for “repairs.”
“I do not care if someone decides to plunder a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that would cause that person to eat,” said Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, according to NBC Chicago. “That makes sure you have clothes.”
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Beale said that the last time there was looting in Chicago, the only Walmart that was not looted in its neighborhood.
‘My commander listened to me and did exactly what I asked him to do. “I was trying to get resources from downtown and was completely told no I could not get these resources and so my commander did what I asked them to do and we saved that particular Walmart,” Beale said.
“There are people who are trying to hijack this Black Lives Matter movement, and that is the people who are causing this unrest, and that is the people who need to be arrested and held accountable.”
