The radical Mayor of Chicago viciously blamed store owners and private businesses for rampant looting this week; saying some are “not doing enough” to stop ‘smash-and-grab’ robberies that are plaguing the Windy City.
“I’m disappointed that they’re not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. We still have retailers that won’t have security officers in their stores, making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational,” said Lori Lightfoot.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced a growing backlash from retailers across the country Monday after she denied the rise of “smash-and-grab robberies,” bizarrely asserting the “data didn’t back it up.”
“A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
“I believe it’s a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn’t back it up,” she added.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence. -Thomas Sowell