Black Lives Matter Activists Plan to Disrupt Black Friday Shopping in Major Cities

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  1. Space_Time

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    Didn't this happen last year? What should the authorities do? What will the authorities do?

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    Black Lives Matter Activists Plan to Disrupt Black Friday Shopping in Major Cities
    BY DEBRA HEINE NOVEMBER 23, 2016 CHAT 202 COMMENTS

    Protesters make their way up North Michigan Avenue on Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Chicago. Community activists and labor leaders hold a demonstration billed as a "march for justice" on Black Friday in the wake of the release of video showing an officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
    Black Lives Matter agitators plan to disrupt Black Friday shopping in at least two cities this year in an attempt to draw attention to what they call unjustified police shootings. Organizers in Chicago and Seattle are planning demonstrations that they hope will attract thousands of protesters.

    In Seattle, as many as 2,700 people may attend a Black Lives Matter protest downtown on Black Friday, according to a Facebook page set up by the "Black Freedom Front of Seattle."

    Via Seattle Patch:

    The event, "BlackLivesFriday 3.0 The Revolution Begins," implores would-be Black Friday shoppers to ditch the stores and join the group in remembering people killed by police in recent years. The page indicates that some 7,000 are interested in attending the protest, and another 8,000 have been invited.
    "WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND BE UNITED AS ONE AGAINST injustice, racism, oppression, police brutality and get JUSTICE FOR Freddie Gray, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Tony Robison, Sandra Bland and hundreds of other unarmed people of color KILLED BY POLICE," the Facebook event page states.

    Black Lives Matter protests have occurred in downtown Seattle on Black Friday since 2014. On Nov. 25 that year, three days before Black Friday, a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson, Mo., officer Darren Wilson in the police-action shooting death of Michael Brown.

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    Next page: What they're planning in Chicago:
    In Chicago, for the second year in a row, protesters are expected to disrupt shopping along North Michigan Avenue (aka the "Magnificent Mile") as shoppers hunt for holiday sales.

    According to Crain's Chicago Business, last year's protest "forced many businesses to close earlier on the busiest shopping day of the year."

    The effort, planned by a diffuse network that includes Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and area churches, seeks to draw attention to a wide range of issues, including police shootings, racism and economic inequalities that keep Chicago's South and West sides mired in poverty and violence.
    The organizers say they hope this year's turnout will be larger than last year's, when hundreds of people temporarily obstructed access to retailers along Chicago's most famous shopping strip and cost some stores a reported 50 percent of their sales on Black Friday.

    "We're expecting a bigger turnout this year, though this is not an exact science," one of the self-identified organizers, Frank Chapman, a field organizer with the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, told Crain's. "The reason we're looking for a bigger turnout is that Trump is the president-elect and, boy, are people pissed."


    A local Black Lives Matter leader said one of the goals is to "redirect" people to patronize businesses owned by "people of color."

    "One of the cornerstones about why we're boycotting on Black Friday is to attempt to redirect people to businesses owned by people of color and women, and explain why it's important to patronize these businesses," said Kimberly Veal, a leader of Black Lives Matter.
    It's an interesting strategy, but it seems highly unlikely that shoppers will be open to the activists' recommendations after being harassed and bullied by them.

    Last year's boycott brought hundreds of protesters to Michigan Avenue, blocking entrances to stores including Apple, Ralph Lauren, Banana Republic, Neiman Marcus, Tiffany, Saks Fifth Avenue, Disney and Brooks Brothers.
    "We don't have any information yet," said John Chikow, CEO of the Magnificent Mile Association. "We're waiting for a briefing from Chicago police" within the next 24 hours.

    Chi-town's police blog, Second City Cop, had a suggestion for CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson: "Hey Special Ed? How about we keep the streets and entrance/exits clear this time so people can engage in lawful commerce?"

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    Let them. They were less then marginal to begin with, and now they're seen as plain thugs. I hope with Trump having won the election, our black and blue gonna start getting some of the respect back.
     
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    Well I'm pretty sure we all know what they mean by disrupting shopping. Smash the doors and windows of the stores and steal all the merchandise for real black Friday deals .
     
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    Who cares, thier "movement" is finally more and more being seen for what it is, based on an objectively false narrative. Even lefties are starting to dislike them. They are going to try to put thier name back in the head lines, but it's a final "black lash" attempt to not die out and fade away into history as an almost laughably sad time for the black community to act so unreasonably.
     
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    Just seems like a bad idea, like blocking a freeway at night.
     
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    It's about time for a good, old-fashioned Kent State.
     
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    True dat!
     
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    Kent State was NOT a mistake that this country made.
     
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    Just cut off their welfare.
     
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    Shopping is rayciss.
     
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    Nothing makes me care about racist whiners like BLM quite like them interrupting my day off while attempting to make my family's Christmas more enjoyable. How stupid are these people?
     
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    Do it so everyone hates you even more.

    Makes it easier to talk about how worthless a group they are.
     
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    they are just another group like the Bundy;s imo... they only care about their own race
     
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    it's a deep glass, we have not found the bottom of it yet
     
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    And reason #29,783 for "this is why concealed carry is necessary" gets added to the list.

    I suppose in certain cities the mandate for "room to destroy" will be changed to "room to loot".

    Anyways, I predict this holiday shopping season will go down as the largest we've seen in a decade despite the attempts by Leftist such as BLM and the unions behind the cargo pilots strike to damage it.

    The Trump Presidency is energizing the economy and bringing back consumer confidence and we're going to get a taste of that in the next 45 or so days.
     
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    Can anyone cite the injustice, racism, oppression and police brutality these people are raging against? If anything, what these people want are racist policies which favor them, like safe spaces for minorities.
     
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    The statistics show thier movement to be objectively built on a lie, with a false narrative.
     
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    Imagine if they put this much effort into their academic studies? Affirmative action would be obsolete.

    But I guess it's just easier to blame the white man.
     
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    There is a push back movement. Someone is gonna hack the computers that control the EBT cards.
     
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    They will carefully choose their "Christmas shopping" location to be a place where legally armed shoppers will not be allowed.(or at least almost non-existent)
     
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    Hand out job applications, they will quickly disperse.
     
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    The riots would be uncontrollable and they might not stop.

    There is this, supposed, quote from a 1992 Ron Paul newsletter about the LA Riots:

    "Order was only restored in LA when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting beganÂ…What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided."
     
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    Looks like they've misunderstood the term black friday.
     
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    I predict that's how the wars will start...

    A simple computer glitch and people wont get they moniezzz, where will the people start rioting first? The inner cities.

    One thing leads to another... you'll see. You saw what happened in LA when people got paid TOO MUCH, every single person tried to buy more (*)(*)(*)(*) then they knew they could afford.

    Cause they're all pieces of (*)(*)(*)(*).
     
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    /thread!!! That was too much win👍


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