Many people doubt the city’s official story about why police closed North Avenue Beach on Monday. (Credit: CBS)
CHICAGO (CBS) – Police have been blaming hot weather on Monday for the sudden evacuation of North Avenue Beach.
But as CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports, two days later, a lot of residents and beachgoers still are not buying the city’s version of events.
They want to know, why weren’t all the beaches closed on Monday?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is now asking for a report on what went down, but he’s standing by the decision to close.
“You had public safety and you had public health,” Emanuel said. “There’s no Monday morning quarterbacking.”
“There was no gang activity that was involved in the commander’s decision to close the beach,” said police Supt. Garry McCarthy.
But a police source close to the situation tells a different story. That officer says police got reports of up to 1,000 suspected gang members meeting here to start trouble.
Callers to Cliff Kelley’s show on WVON-1690 AM agree.
“It was gangbangers acting stupid up there,” one caller said.
“It’s a very plausible argument that there were gangbangers up there,” another said.
When asked if most of his callers feel like they are not being given a straight story about what happened at North Avenue Beach, Kelley said no.
“All of them” feel that way, he said.
People at the beach Wednesday wee mixed on the truth about why the beach closed.
“I don’t know of any gang-related stuff happening toward North Avenue,” one beachgoer said. “I didn’t see it.”
But most agreed hostility had to play a part.
“There was a lot of, like, ethnic minorities, like, yelling at each other,” one woman said.
“The violence that they had between each other, I guess quarrels, and they knew that everyone would meet here,” a man said.
McCarthy said there needs to be a better plan about how to handle large crowds, so emergency crews can get through to people who need help.
He says that was a major concern that day, whatever else might have happened. There were several outbreaks of gang violence in cities across the country.
The announcement about a safety-related closure came over the public-address system shortly after 6 p.m. Monday. A firefighting crew sprayed crowds with a mist of water from a 2 1/2-inch hose as beach-goers made their way from the lakefront.
In all, four people were rushed to area hospitals from the beach as a result of heat-related illness. One was even listed in critical condition.
But violent flash mobs have been a concern at North Avenue Beach previously.
211 Comments
Sorry, Hostile City, Hostile
June 2, 2011 at 7:17 am
keep the lakefront clean from thugs or ya lose the whole city..plain and simple.
the people who pay the most in city taxes, don’t want the thugs taking over the beautiful beaches!! The police did the right thing!
June 2, 2011 at 7:25 am
“ya lose the whole city”
Honey, that ship has SAILED!
Rahm should shut down the entire lakefront starting NOW because that’s what he’ll be doing until Labor Day!! Leave your BBQs at home!!
June 2, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Anyone who goes to the lakefront in Chicago this summer is endangering themselves and their families. Rahm Emanuel has handcuffed the police into being nothing but crossing guards.
Chicago is turning into Mogadishu and THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT EMANUEL WANTS. Handing the country to the darks, neighborhood by neighborhood. Why would he want white voters in the city? He can’t stay on the gravy train that way.
June 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Democrats want to drive out the middle class and working people. A city full of welfare queens and thugs will be solidly democrat. Look at Detoilet, Newark, Gary, Cleveland or any other dump of a city.
June 2, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Honey,
The Aldermen and City Hall won’t Let the Police admit to doing the right thing for starters.
June 3, 2011 at 6:31 am
What exactly is an “ethnic minority” …… Is that another word for a non-white ???
June 2, 2011 at 7:42 am
Wow I really can not believe that you would ask this question.
June 2, 2011 at 9:13 am
HAHAHAHA…aren’t whites an “ethnic minority” now in the city?
June 2, 2011 at 11:29 am
That’s funny..we are now a product of our ethnic group … no longer the larger group we use to call AMERICAN’S..
June 2, 2011 at 1:45 pm
European american, I agree with u.
June 2, 2011 at 6:34 pm
‘euro-trash’ describes my ancestors
June 3, 2011 at 2:23 am
Perhaps if we had Conceal Carry we would not have these problems along the beach. If a few law abiding citizens had to pull their firearm and shoot a few gang bangers or thugs, well, that might begin to change things.
June 2, 2011 at 8:26 am
No, that is not what I said or meant. No where in my comments did I say anything about “angry white citizens”. I don’t care what color a law abiding citizen is. We just need to take back our 2nd Amendment rights and not be afraid to protect ourselves or our families.
June 2, 2011 at 11:34 am
I love these people who always talk about how having more guns around will create less crime… in complete ignorance of available statistics and crime rates of the most armed society in the world which is the United States. You see right wing gun nuts, you already live in the most armed society in the world with 90 guns per 100 citizens, and yet your crime rates are also some of the highest…. see how that works?
June 2, 2011 at 1:10 pm
The most violent cities have the strictest gun laws. And the converse is also true. Until last year, Chicago had a ZERO tolerance for any firearm, yet the south-side was well armed with illegal weapons and was/still is quite violent to boot!
June 2, 2011 at 1:19 pm
YOU ARE RIGHT ON !
June 2, 2011 at 1:41 pm
But don’t they shoot each other? Seems like a self-solving problem… like the crack epidemic
June 3, 2011 at 2:32 am
It’s the Diversity, stupid! The Preferred Species are committing the bulk of the murders. Switzerland has FAR MORE guns per capita than the US, but almost NO murders with guns. They also have FAR LESS Preferred Species. Japan has very few guns, but they ALSO have very few Preferred Species. But then I suppose that is an Inconvenient Truth…
June 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm
@Mark Matis, your “Preferred Species” are subject to decades of social engineering by the Democrat Party, starting from Johnson’s Great Society. Prior to that, your “Preferred Species” were never involved with crime like this. I blame the Democrat party.
Members of your “Preferred Species” who are Republican don’t behave like this, they are productive members of society. But then again, there are lots of your “Preferred Species” who are Democrat and don’t behave like this. But EVERY member of your “Preferred Species” who acks the fool ARE Democrats!
Your post is racist, and in that misses the salient concept.
June 2, 2011 at 1:27 pm
98% of the Preferred Species make the other 2% look bad. THAT is the Inconvenient Truth.
If that makes me racist, then I am PROUD to be one.
June 5, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Are you really that stupid?????? Get your facts straight before you begin to spew your verbal vomit. Go to the FBI statistics and it will show you that those cities and states that have conceal carry all have lower crime rates than the city of chicago, other Illinois cities, and the state of Illinois. Conceal Carry does work. One can always find some wacko somewhere that has a gun and causes problems. Perhaps you would like America to be like Australia???? Australia outlawed all firearms, took them away from all law abiding citizens and within 3 years, the murder rate soared by over 300%, armed robbery rose by over 450% and rape when up over 500%. Is that what you want you idiot Kunta? No, we do not and we will fight for our 2nd Amendment Rights. It is time for law abiding citizens to take back their Rights and not allow this “nanny state” of Illinois to force their liberal puking views down our throats!
June 2, 2011 at 1:37 pm
The crime rate is so high in Chicago because the democrats made it impossible for law abiding tax payiing citizens to get guns. And when a criminal is arrested for a gun violation our democratic court system slaps them on the wrist and sends them home.
June 2, 2011 at 1:45 pm
That is a typical liberal lie. Dallas just finished a 50 year low in homicide.
But in 2011, it’s up again, to the tune of about one murder per day. And guess which groups are responsible. Here’s a clue: not Caucasian, right-wingers.
It’s the Aframs and (mostly illegal) Mexican’ts.
It’s the truth. Deal with it.
June 2, 2011 at 4:54 pm
@ Frank Vath….. Right On. You are correct and it is time for those of us who are law abiding citizens to band together to get CCW passed
June 2, 2011 at 6:37 pm
What group kept pushing to change the immigration laws?
What group has pushed the diversity is our strength propaganda?
Hint, not black, or Hispanic, or white.
We have all been suckered.
Red terror on our shores, this isn’t good. Our civilization has been destroyed from within.
June 2, 2011 at 11:54 pm
blame liberalism, its destroyed America as we know it. But the people of Chicago deserve the crime, the drugs, and the corruption. You keep voting the same people in office with the same communist mindset. Any good person with real intelligence would have left Chicago years ago. hope it just gets worse for you idiots.
June 3, 2011 at 6:12 am
So, if you were at North Avenue Beach that day you would have just shot all the black people who seemed to be making trouble? Shoot first ask questions later? You think thug wannabes (trust me, they’re mostly harmless posers) are not going to show up at a beach because white people have guns? I completely fail to see how “taking back our 2nd Amendment rights” is related to this specific incident. And for the record, I’m entirely in favor of concealed carry.
June 2, 2011 at 1:12 pm
@ Kevin B…. I am gald you are in favor of conceal carry. My point is we do need to take back our 2nd Amendment Rights. Secondly, one never shoots another without knowing or being that one’s life or family member’s life is in jeopardy of harm or worse. Thirdly, these “thug wannabes” are not harmless. perhaps by themselves they might be, but not in a group. Thank you
June 2, 2011 at 1:40 pm
@ Mr. Justice:
Where’s the line? When are you in danger? Where they are at the beach? When they shout or yell? Laugh? Call you a name? Shove you off the path? Steal a bike? Pull a gun?
When do you flash your piece at them? When do you fire?
In my view, the 2nd Amendment allows me to use weaponized deadly force when deadly force is threatened to me, my family, or an unarmed citizen. The threat of deadly force, especially the threat of interracial deadly force was absolutely not occurring on the beach that day. Therefore, guns solve nothing here.
The other day, around 39th street on the Lake Shore Trail a bunch of young black teens refused to move off the trail and said derogatory things about me as I rode by on the grass. Here’s the funny thing: cops, with GUNS were standing about 25 feet away. They ain’t scurred of guns. They ain’t scurred of cops.
@JAG
The risk of getting struck by lightning and being an innocent bystander killed in a gang initiation like you’ve hinted is approximately equal. I think you’re just more unfamiliar with the community than I am (grew up white in gangland, went to black schools, know a few real gangstas but mostly kids who were posers in high school and now 1) Have families and jobs, 2) Serve our country in the military, 3) One M.D. (who lit a guy’s car on fire in high school), one lawyer.
June 2, 2011 at 2:13 pm
if the guy on the bike that got his ass kicked [thankgod thats all that happened]had a gun he might not be in the hospital now.
June 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Kind of hard to tell the “posers” from the real deal when you’re being shoved off your bike while riding on the bike path. There have been a couple reported, but many, many others have been knocked down. The Mayor, the police and the residents along the gold coast want to keep it quiet. I’ll bet the family of the 22 year old recent graduate who died with a bullet in the BACK of her head wished she had had a gun with her. These people are NOT posers if they’re blocking the bike paths,knocking people over or shooting. Whatever happened to passing people on the beach and saying “hello”. These idiots are animals!
June 2, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Tough to Conceal Carry while wearing a Speedo. You’d need a little tiny gun, too small to be effective.
June 2, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Not if you are Anthony Weiner. He appears to have plenty of room to conceal a gat.
June 2, 2011 at 12:57 pm
YEP!!!! That would put an end to the gang violence real quick! Most people who get a FOID card get traiing and so are probably better shots than the thugs who buy them black market and think they can go all “gansta”
June 2, 2011 at 1:09 pm
You are correct.
June 2, 2011 at 1:17 pm
yeah, armed citizen vigilantes, that’s the answer. and what if you or your loved ones gets hit in the crossfire? a conceal carry permit doesn’t make a person a sharpshooter.
June 2, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Please do not make comments such as the comment you just made. It really shows your ignorance. Anyone that has a conceal carry permit knows how to shoot and shoot accurately. No one is calling for “armed citizen vigilantes” as you so put it. What we are calling for is the RIGHT to protect ourselves, our families, and property. Before you go off and start a tirade against hand guns, please do your research first. 49 states have conceal carry or open carry. The People’s Republic of Illinois is the ONLY state that does not allow either. Oh, except for the politicians they can carry. So, you tell me, are the politicians more important than your life, Mr or Mrs. lizzzard?????
June 2, 2011 at 1:21 pm
NO but it might take down the bad guy BEFORE he kills a lot of people.. Most people who own guns KNOW how to shoot.. but NONE of the gang bangers who have them can hit the broad side of a barn at 20 paces..but MAYBE you can help out by taking a picture with your iphone..
June 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm
You’re right, gun control seems to be doing great things for your city. The gun ban probably means Chicago is one of the safest cities in the country, right?. Guns are also banned in Mexico and the whole world has seen how much of a wonderful place that is. I’m using sarcasm, in case you as intelligent as i believe you to be. A concealed carry permit doesn’t make you a sharpshooter,however it does teach you to shoot the gun the correct way, not turned sideways like some chimp with a stick.
June 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm
While I fully support citizens without any stupid arrests in their background (like DUIs or other bad judgement type stuff) should be able to conceal or open carry, you should be required to qualify just like federal agents need to do. Someone carrying a legal gun who can’t hit the broad side of a barn is about as bad as the gang bangers in a shoot out. And no, Mr. Justice, just because you get a CC card does not make you a good shot in a stressful situation. Life ain’t a still target at 10 yards.
June 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Lizzard,
If you can’t hit the broad side of a barn you won’t pass the test. If you can’t read,and write in english at a high school level, you won’t pass the concealed weapons test. Nobody really knows how they will react in stressful and dangerous situations until it happens. With a some training and the skills required to pass a concealed weapons permit test you have at least a chance at defending your loved ones rather then wait 45 minutes for the cops to show up and accidentally shoot you or your children because they were confused.
June 2, 2011 at 3:49 pm
People are always asking more from the police and safety officers, but when they take a step and do their job to protect us, this is what we get, a media coverage questioning why. It was 6pm you had all day to party, the police decided it was a risk and made a decision. In this case you shut up you pack your stuff and you go home… Bottom line is leave the police and the mayor (who I don’t like) alone and let them do their job, stop asking why and move on to the next story CBS.
June 2, 2011 at 9:18 am
Wow, do you completely miss the point of liberty in this country. There will always be a balance to liberty and security, but in this case, I think you’re a bit quick to give the government (who enforces their decisions at the point of a barrel…not hype, but the reality of any government) a free pass with your “the police decided it was a risk and made a decision” as well as Rahm’s “it was public health, public safety.” Neither should be a freebie to the government, especially when you’re talking about weather. It gets hot every year, and there will be plenty of hotter days this year. This is exactly the type of government decision and action that should be questioned. Whether I’ve partied all day or not, even at 6pm I’m more than capable of making decisions for myself and my family and accepting responsibility for those decisions. It’s my right. And I concur with Truth B. Told that the 2nd Amendment should be treated like the rest of the Bill of Rights.
June 2, 2011 at 12:09 pm
@ Poli Sci Guy……….. AWESOME COMMENTS….. It appears to me that there is a “nanny” mentality that is capturing America. People need to stand up and do for themselves not have the “nanny state” taking care of them.
June 2, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Say Eric,
You can go to heII. I’m not going to pack my stuff and go home because some cop thinks he is a tough guy and tells me to.
Why don’t you go home and leave me to take care of myself? Better yet, why don’t you just do your job in as unobtrusive a fashion as possible and leave me to worry about me.
We are not living in a Police State just yet. At least not here in New Mexico. By the way, anyone can carry any weapon they like here, pistols, rifles, shotguns with no permit what so ever.
We have a very polite and non violent state as well. An armed society is a polite society and a free one too.
Rich in New Mexico.
June 2, 2011 at 5:22 pm
If the cops are covering up civil disobedience and blaming the weather for having a problem—Chicago is lost. Your cops are corrupt, the public is the victim.
June 2, 2011 at 8:52 pm
The cops KNOW what happened and WE are not covering it up. It was a pending riot. Metra (commuter train) police transmitted the information that a huge number of people, incidentally dressed like gang members, were coming into downtown on trains, heading for the beach. There are dozens of reports of the swarm pushing people off their bikes, physically blocking bike paths, freely stealing the contents from coolers and daring the owners to challenge them. Women were groped. – Don’t blame cops for the politically expedient comments of the mayor and the newly-imported police superintendent. WE don’t issue the false press releases; look to the mayor and the superintendent for that..
People weren’t dispersed from the beach due to heat. THey were dispersed from the beach because the Chicago Police Dept is desperately undermanned and there weren’t enough police to control a volatile situation such as this. Police did not have the wherewithal, or the ability, to protect the public at that point.– If the media, or even YOU, want the truth, submit a Freedom of Information Act request for the 911 calls for the 1st and 18th districts that afternoon. It should be a real eye-opener.
June 3, 2011 at 1:26 am
Beach space is woefully inadequate, places like “Oak Street Beach” with asphalt and concrete slab to a deep drop off is a mere tiny piece of nothing usable but as a heat trap on hot days. Long before the younger Daley, it was decided that boat slips and docks were more important than beaches. Perhaps it is about time some of the “harbors” were turned into beaches. Chicago doesn’t need to worry about wealthy suburbanites causing riots on the lake front, just extremely intoxicated weekend alpha-males from the burbs overturning their boats and drowning their equally intoxicated passengers..
June 2, 2011 at 9:22 am
Let’s not forget the added venues that serve alcohol along the lake front that was pushed by Daley. I remember him saying it would bring added revenue to the park district and I’m sure one of his connected ______ has the liqure license. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Now, add alcohol and there’s a problem. The lake front and all parks should be free of alcohol in Chicago. Parks are for families, not drunks and thugs
June 2, 2011 at 9:55 am
The City of Chicago – The Emperor Has No Clothes. End of story.
June 2, 2011 at 10:38 am
Nick—-don’t blindly accept that these people are “experts” at anything——–I understand your rile against the media…………but, please remember that the city and CPD want you (us, the media, public personas) to stay out of ALL of their decisions. Who to question them except the media, us , and public personas. I , for one, wasn’t at the beach and blindly accepted the initial report of overheated pedestrians as the explanation for the closure. Thanks to social networks, media, etc. for opening our eyes to the THUG-LIFE that is roaming (hunting) the beachfronts. NO-ONE should shut-up Nick——–QUESTION AUTHORITY !!!!
June 2, 2011 at 11:08 am
@ larry, good comments. I agree with you. All officials should be questioned from time to time and held accountable. They work for us, the tax payer. I am not saying that we do not give them the benefit of the doubt when “snap” decisions must be made, but I am saying, that we should keep our politicians and police in check, otherwise our city, county, state, etc. becomes a police state. Just look at other countries that have allowed politicians and the police total power. With that being said, the police do need our support and help in solving and preventing crime.
June 2, 2011 at 11:32 am
I have to say I am AMAZED that the MSM actually got OFF their BUTTS and looked into this….It’s about time they did their jobs.. and brought the TRUTH out in the open.. HOPE this catches on and than MAYBE we can have CHANGE.. this in NOT new for CHICAGO it’s the first time it’s been reported on..
June 2, 2011 at 1:43 pm
“Ethnic minority” I just love the ignorance. Whites are more ethnic than anyone and many “minorities” are white but because they have a catchy Spanish last name, they are given the coveted minority status. Where happened to our country? So much for being united.
All the do-gooder and guilt ridden white liberals bend over for these Mexican and Central American and black thugs while they blame the average white citizen for all the nation’s problems. Bunch of idiots. You and your policies have destroyed out cities and now you’re turning the country into leader of the third world. All in the name of PC, votes and power.
June 2, 2011 at 11:41 am
Yep. Diversity is the opposite of the Melting Pot that used to be taught. Liberals and hyphenated-Americans are destroying this country. If you can’t just be “American” your priorities are misplaced. Oh, and today’s black community is not the legacy of Dr. King but rather an abomination.
June 2, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Yeah Yeah .. whites never did wrong ..right …it’s everyone else’s fault …
the world would be better if everyone was or at least acted like drunk middle-class cubs fans .. blah blah
the ignorance of your own delusions amuses me no matter how you people spin them
June 2, 2011 at 12:42 pm
when was the country ever “united”?
in the 17 & mid-1800′s when there was slavery? In the late 1800′s when immigrants were shoveled into ghettos as soon as they got off the boat? At the turn of and to the middle of the 20th century when segregation and “separate but equal” were penned by our congress? Or the mid-late 20th century when there were both black and white power groups?
June 3, 2011 at 10:59 am
Wow, it’s Thursday and channel 2 finally “discovered” this story. Drudge had it almost immediately.
June 2, 2011 at 11:41 am
Neo Con Hannity mentioned it for about 20 seconds but totally ignored the reality of all the instances were Blacks..Blamed it on “youth” culture. Uber Neo con O’reilly didn’t mention it at all.
June 2, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Maybe Ballerina Rahm can get them in Jeremiah’s “Down Low Club” like some more important people have belonged too. Do a google search before they change it and find out who used to belong. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. No wonder they know what teabaggers are in the White House.
Check out song called “teapartiers I can’t hear you” on youtube
Here’s a verse
Doctors are retiring earlier but we’re getting 17000 new IRS
This is how Obama creates health care jobs I guess
For 234 years this country’s been God’s blessing.
Now he’s following Cloward and Piven’s to bankrupt the country I’m guessing
If Obamacare gives Grandma and Grandpa a scare
Think how when their rationed and die earlier we’ll save on healthcare
June 2, 2011 at 11:52 am
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
~ George Orwell — http://911essentials.com
June 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
YES !!! Just one gang of criminals caused the shutdown — the one led by Rahm Emanuel.
June 2, 2011 at 11:57 am
It is difficult to believe that it has never been hot enough in Chicago before that some people didn’t get sick from the heat. Have the beaches been closed for this reason before? Here in Texas any day the pools are opened or peole go to swim in the golf during the summer it is hot enough that some people get sick, but the pools and beaches are closed for that reason. So I think that the gang problem thing is the most logical conclusion, but not the most politically correct one since minorities might be involved. Thus the police came up with the heat thing. I could be wrong, but I would be VERY surprised. If the heat excuse is true, then the beaches should be closed every time it is hot since there will always be stupid people who don’t know how to recognize when they are too hot.
June 2, 2011 at 11:58 am
typo – Gulf and “but the pools and beaches are NOT closed for that reason. By brain goes faster than my fingers, and I forgot to proofread.
June 2, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Seriously, if heat was the issue, wouldn’t it make more sense that people simply go into the nice, cool lake a hundred feet away? OBVIOUSLY, heat was not the issue.
June 3, 2011 at 1:34 am
I can see Detroit from Chicago.
June 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm
You are right on the target. It’s gonna take a while, but it appears Chicago is definitely on the Detroit track. Philadelphia had the greatest exodus of whites in the past ten years than any other city in the U. S. It’s another city overtaken and on a path to destruction thanks to the thugs, aka “Youths”, being permitted to overrun the business district with impuntiy. What’s really sad is they have an outstanding smart, likeable Black Mayor who tends to act “too White” according to his fellow negroes. There’s no stopping the decline. It’s too late. Too many people are getting handouts and refuse to give them back. Anyone who threatens to take away the gifts bestowed upon them by the Democrats is a dead man/woman walking——at least until the whole thing collapses on itself which appears inevitable.
June 2, 2011 at 4:39 pm
the petri dish that produced barry soetoro.
June 2, 2011 at 12:10 pm
You yankees are seeing first hand why we kept blacks segregated. So has every nation and empire for 6000 years. You liberals were so arrogant telling us how racist we were and how enlightened you were. The epitaph for USA will read died of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
June 2, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Dont blame “non white” Americans for all the problems. Whites have their issues to. Who we need to blame is our Govenors and Mayors for providing good policies to help keep the American people satified. All segregation would do is start riots and their would be even more violence.
June 3, 2011 at 9:03 am
Yon are totally out of touch with reality. A fool’s attitude like yours of not laying blame where it is obviously due is what brought this mess to America. It’s not non-whites causing the gang attacks in Chicago, it’s BLACKS! The race of people known as Negroes!
June 8, 2011 at 1:27 pm
You do realize that most blacks are law-abiding, tax paying citizens who make a positive contribution to society, right? The fact that you are endorsing segregation just means that you are weak minded and socially deficient. You would make for a poor warrior, for you can’t even identify your enemy. All you can do is say, “Brown people! Scary! Keep ‘em away!!” You’re a coward.
And what do you mean “were” racist? You’re still racist.
June 5, 2011 at 7:55 am
Nick works for da Maya
June 2, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Its been my experience, a little Country music or Mozart played loud and a lot of Rebel flags displayed keeps the hoodlums away.
June 2, 2011 at 12:16 pm
This is not about race, it is about the abandoment of a father figure and personal responsibility. These are facts your mayor and our president do not want to face. If they did and did something about it they would lose votes.
June 2, 2011 at 12:21 pm
There must be blacks in Chicago who are sick and tired of this mess. Who speaks for them?
June 2, 2011 at 3:43 pm
You are correct. But the solution is not “to do” something about it, that’s the problem. Too much has already BEEN done about it.
The cure:
1) cut welfare by 90%. If a person is able bodied, then no welfare, period. If kids are starving then it’s up to the parent(s) to take care of them. GO TO WORK. If no job in Chicago, then go to the central valley of California and work in the fields – chase the illegal Mexicans out and put Americans to work.
2) offer school voucher programs. Just divide the education budget by the number of school kids in a city and offer the parent(s) that money for school.
3) extend this to home schoolers. Mandate that a home schooled kid must take tests every 3 or 4 months to prove they are being educated at the public school level. (I bet that in 95% of cases the home school kids out score any public school standard. If a kid does not pass the standard then his parents don’t qualify for the vouchers.
4) any illegal use of vouchers is penalized by very stiff prison terms.
The above would cure the problems mentioned in the other posts. It may be difficult, but it would re-build the black race.
June 2, 2011 at 4:56 pm
cmon, was there ever any question that the jiggers ruined the party with their barbaric behavior? Not for me.
June 2, 2011 at 12:35 pm
so what do you mean jiggers? Don’t be a racist. That’s the real problem people cant seem to face. RACISM!!!
June 3, 2011 at 9:07 am
I gave up on visiting Chicago when the Hotel charged me $40 a night to park.
( ” 2% for looking in the mirror twice….”)
If it weren’t for trade shows at Mc Cormack the town would die a slow lingering death….
June 2, 2011 at 12:40 pm
When you phony liberals can walk thru blacktown at night with your wife and daughter safely, then you can call me a racist. You can walk thru any white neighborhood in my NC town and blacks can too day or night. No go zones for whites exist in every city are an affront to our civil rights.
June 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm
And yet your forefathers thought it was such a good idea to go to their country and kidnap and imprison them and force them to work hard labor as slaves. I guess you don’t like the end result? Funny how that works,
June 2, 2011 at 1:07 pm
You are incorrect. It was the black man who sold other black men and women to the whites. So, get your history straight. One tribe would conquer another tribe and then take the conquered tribe as slaves. AND guess what, the tribes in Africa continue to fight and kill each other today. It goes on in almost every African nation. So, stop spewing your verbal ignorant vomit.
June 2, 2011 at 1:29 pm
The reality is BLACKS sold blacks into slavery first, off the gold coast of Africa. YES, English and French capitalized on it and grew the disgusting business but it all started with black tribes attacking other black tribes and selling the men and women they didn’t want. Often for weapons they did want to maintain and increase their control of the region. If your up for the truth take it all. It was also the English who first outlawed it AND Northern Whites who fought and died (along with blacks) to free slaves. Not all Whites are racist and not all blacks are violent – so lets stop the BS and finger pointing and have intelligent people from all sides come up with a solution.
June 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Read nation of Islam book the secret history of blacks…
Black and white have been fooled.
The truth shall set you free.
June 2, 2011 at 11:07 pm
actually, you have no clue what you are talking about…all ya racist forefathers and ancestors traded their white sheets for police badges….it is not safe for any minority to go outside of their homes nowadays without being harrassed…
June 3, 2011 at 2:10 am
I care if they LIE about why the beaches are closed.WE as a nation are never going to improve the situations blacks and mexicans find them selves in unless we are truthfull. It’s veiled racism to allow them to denegrate themselves … and just look away because they are not expected to “act White”
There were a minimum of 7 cities having violence instances over Memorial Day..ALL BLACK but the media didn’t say a peep..they like to insult the teen or youth community by calling THEM “youths or teens”
June 2, 2011 at 12:50 pm
“I care if they LIE about why the beaches are closed”
10000% true. And to send your new police superintendant all over the radio shows to lie about it further. LOL.
Let’s see what they say when they close down the beaches next time.
June 2, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Ia m sure that she was picked just because of her inarticulation. It’s the Chicago way.
June 2, 2011 at 12:55 pm
You racists always shoot yourself in the foot. If you had any sense whether you liked them or not, decent law-abiding black citizens don’t like “black thugs” and their destructive behavior either. Maybe if people actually got together and did something about it instead of making ignorant blanket statements things would change.But then again who would want to come together with someone who calls everyone of a certain kind suit and tie or not a jigger. Well, on the net or behind their back anyway because they wouldn’t have the nerve to do it to their faces unless intoxicated and surrounded by
their “homies”. Grow up, but that requires wisdom and intelligence.
June 2, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Bro, the men are 50% felons, 80% children out of wedlock. These are subhuman numbers never done by any culture, race , or nation. I don’t think there is a solution short of draconian catastrophic measures. I wish it were not so, but it is. Calling us racist shows you are more offended by whites speaking their minds on this site(a right), than by blacks attacking citizens(a criminal act).Lets get with the program chief. Start thinking freely and not confined by your so-called wisdom.
June 2, 2011 at 1:50 pm
…let me add, if you gang rape, murder, or mob attack us, you deserve to be called any word we deem appropriate. I am tired of 18 year old gangstas that are killed in acts of crime as being treated as thus in the papers…. “Demarius Jeters 18, and father of 2 was killed in an attempted robbery”. NO PATRICK he is not a father nor a man. The big man upstairs is very disapointed with you Patrick.There is a time for hate, the Bible says, and I am tired of goons.
June 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Did you even read the post? Where did it say I supported these types, as a matter of fact just the opposite. But your not smart enough to see that. See in an action intelligent people would want allies.The enemy of my enemy is my friend.you pretty much just backed up what I said in the first comment. It won’t be your kind who takes care of this and related problems. It will be people who work together and put forth strategies and policies that prevent them. There’s a reason besides the budget for instance there will be no fireworks show on the third anymore,for anybody paying attention. It’s a big step yes but until more can be done perhaps it’s necessary. I won’t bother communicating with you because it’s obvious where you and your type are coming from. But I will will say is there are some people who are smart enough to know you don’t alienate people who are potential allies, even if temporarily. But your right you think what you want,by the way bro I’m probably paler than you. See what your narrowminded bigoted thinking gets you. A foot in the mouth.Erin Go Braugh.Knock yourselves out.
June 2, 2011 at 4:49 pm
How to solve the Black hommie problem? Free the drugies to make room for the hommies?
June 2, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Yes We Can Build a http://www.NewNation.org YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!
June 2, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Yes we can as soon as we take another bong hit.
June 2, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I find it hard to believe people are so hateful that they won’t tolerate a bunch of Obamas runnin’ wild!
June 2, 2011 at 1:17 pm
The police did the right thing closing the beach for either reason because public safety was in question.
June 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm
So instead of arresting the low llifes that went to the beach to do harm to law abiding people and act the fool and throw people off their bikes and into the water and try to start fights when it;s 10 one 1 you want the police to close the beach for everyone ??? You are one bizarre bleeding heart liberal
June 2, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Mike, I hope you don’t complain when they cordon off all public places and the only way you can enter is through the TSA checkpoint.
It’s for your safety.
June 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Mike must be a Lonely person,confined to his Cell !
June 2, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Rahm doesn’t want the beach to be free of cost. wants to find a way to make the goyim pay to enjoy the beach.
Nothing should be free. Especially if you aren’t chosen.
Besides, aren’t there wars to be fighting or funding you stupid goy cattle?
June 2, 2011 at 11:22 pm
@Kevin B, thug wannabes are quite often thugs in training looking for opportunities to prove how tough they are. Don’t be so dismissive.
June 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm
When will black people learn to behave in a society that clearly does not want them to be part of it? Isn’t there a beach for blacks on the south side somewhere? What about if the blacks simply gather on a beach along a river, and leave Lake Michigan to those who actually can bahve according to acceptable social standards?
June 2, 2011 at 1:22 pm
or how about yall crackers stop imbreeding and having babies with no souls….
June 3, 2011 at 2:13 am
This is a problem that has to be taken seriously. Mayor Emanuel cannot send in the cops to shut down outdoor activities every time the gangs show up, and the police making no arrests. He’s scared of the gangs. He will have to do what Mayor Daley did, just let them have the run of the city.
Years ago the gangs were chased out of the city into the suburbs. Now the gangs see that they are gaining the power they once had and move back to the city.
June 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm
The quotes were from caller/listeners to WVON, so they are representative of that audience.
June 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm
“…the airshow is ruined.”
what? they canceled the airshow? really?
having an empty lakefront = zero revenue. nobody is there to spend money. now that’s a huge problem.
p.s. don’t forget the city got rid of the movies in Grant Park!
June 2, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Supt. Garry McCarthy should be allowed to crack some coconuts! That is what U guys need out there. He is a NY guy & can stop the organized chaos.
They tied him up in Newark which would eat Chicago alive! Maybe Lil Rahm a- lam-a-ding-dong can don a helmut and wade in!!! He is a lib phony that is in over his head!!!
Good luck people of Chicago…… U will need it!!!
June 2, 2011 at 1:29 pm
We had a bad ass no nonsense cop, his name was John Burge, and he took zero sh!t from gangsters. The law abiding blacks hated his guts for this. They called it profiling. I would take the likes of Burge over these gangsters anyday.
June 2, 2011 at 4:06 pm
About a thousand kids stormed a Carson beach in South Boston and began fighting on Memorial Day. This seems to be the new “thing” with these thugs. They use social media to gets the word out fast.
June 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm
If I heard and read this correctly… THE PEOPLE are the ones NOT BUYING IT.. maybe you should SHUT UP ALREADY..
June 2, 2011 at 1:39 pm
EVERY violent city in the US are ALL run by Democrats and have a long history of being run by Democrats. If you want the violence to stop, outlaw the Democrat party!
June 2, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Blacks and Latinos ruin everything. Again. Of course.
June 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm
No. Rahm’s tribe members ruin everything. They changed the immigration laws. They fund the crazy organizations. They have destroyed European civilization.
Blacks and Hispanics didn’t do a thing to us. They don’t send our most valuable resource, our men, off to constant never ending wars. They didn’t get us to bomb and destroy Europe twice and nuke Japan.
Blacks and Hispanics have no power in the government, or the banks, or the media, or Hollywood, or the courts, or high finance, or veto power in the UN. The list could go on.
June 2, 2011 at 11:14 pm
I really pity you people that choose to live in a cesspool like Chicago. Live here in northern Pennsylvania, all the pools and lakes were open for family swimming, fireworks in every little hamlet, cool temperatures. Parades, festivals, etc. I really pity you for living In a cesspool.
June 2, 2011 at 2:04 pm
- “Who does the news media think they are to question the judgement of the experts in this matter.”
Geee…and for all these years I was under the impression that questioning our leadership was one of the fundamental purposes of having a news media in the first place.
June 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm
I salute the Police commander for having the foresight to nip in the bud the potential problem that was about to unfold. If the worst would have happened the media would have wanted to know why the police did not do something.
Keep it up CPD I can only imagine what you are up against and its only june !st.
Jim
June 2, 2011 at 2:14 pm
The real question here: Why did it take so long for Channel 2 and the rest of the MSM to pick up this story? The blogosphere was lively with the North Avenue Beach story the day after! Clearly the MSM were hiding being a political correctness to not report anything that might offend.
June 2, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Shut everything down and the problem will go away.
June 2, 2011 at 2:25 pm
They should do what they do in Brazil. Round up all gang members and drive them to a remote location with a huge hole dug in the ground, shoot them and throw them in the hole.
June 2, 2011 at 2:28 pm
There are times and places where white people are not welcome. We must not let PC keep this important information from potential victims. We need to set up a website and an i-phone app to keep white people from places where they are not safe. Being honest will prevent violence much better than police ever will. Most of us are happy to stay away from where we are not wanted.
June 2, 2011 at 2:36 pm
you people got the police force you wanted!shortshanks has decimated the manpower of the cpd, its gonna get worse in the future!
June 2, 2011 at 2:44 pm
CBS, is there any reason why several of us cannot get our messages posted?
June 2, 2011 at 2:51 pm
comments? found this on another website:
“unfortunately these are the same people that created the monster, and now that its knocking on their door, they dont like it. welcome to my world, now stop acting like b!tches and do something about it. “
June 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm
where are the other posts?? is cbs chicago editing content?
June 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm
when the thugs start getting beaten up, then and only then will they quit ruining Myrtle Beach, Chicago, Charlotte, Miami’s beaches.
June 2, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Gorillas in the Mist
June 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm
So glad all of the “disadvantaged” youths are getting free computers, cell phones, etc (paid by taxpayers) so the can better coordinate their flash mobs. This is happening all over the U.S.
June 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Wow, it didn’t take long for Rahm to turn Chicago into a 3rd world country just like his former boss is trying to do to the rest of the country. Amateurs pretending to be grown-ups, practicing on-the-job-training, padding their own bank accounts and golfing their days away while the rest of us watch our standard of living fall off a cliff.
The revolution will not be televised.
June 2, 2011 at 3:26 pm
But wait there is more….with the approval of casinos and gambling the Mafia, Mexican Gangs, Russian gangs are all gonna move in like flies on sh&^. Where is Elliott Ness when you need him..chicagoland thuggery at it’s finest, headed by the biggest thug of them all…Rahm, president appointed, mayor of chicago!!!
June 2, 2011 at 10:20 pm
I noticed these flash mobs are appearing more and more since our first Black President gave minortities and welfare recipients and thier dependents cell phones for free and prepaid monthly credits. Obama stash pays for it right?
As far as the gangs, I hope they kill themselves off and quickly no matter what the race!
June 2, 2011 at 3:28 pm
you cannot trust the media or govt. to tell the truth when Race is involved, they are devoted to social engineering and control of “the sheeple”,
how bad is the Liberal media?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-executives-admit-taped-interviews-193116
especially liked the COPs clip
June 2, 2011 at 3:35 pm
knee-grows are a blight wherever they go. inbred african locusts, stinking of newports and government cheese.
June 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Welcome to the “OBAMA NATION” !!
It’s only going to get better !!!
June 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm
The MSM would have let this story slide under the waves were it not for the “insignificant” police blog SSC. The MSM has for almost 2 years ignored the reports of “wilding” attacks on the Lakefront and Michigan Aveune areas. They thought that they could do the bidding of the city administration and cover this one up, but this one stinks so bad that they can’t.
June 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
The media likewise ignore the periodic gang fights between blacks and hispanics in Schuth Woods forest preserve at Des Plaines Ave. and Cermak in the western suburbs. Cop cars show up from a dozen suburbs, but not a peep from the media. That’s because they have this “diversity is our strength” canard they want to keep us all drugged with. Some in Europe have finally said it: multiculturalism is a failure. Helmut Schmidt, one of it’s earlier proponents said, “Multiculturalism can only work in an authoritarian state.” Of course, here we think we can make it work if only we all close our eyes, join hands and *pretend* real hard that it works.
June 2, 2011 at 11:23 pm
We all know deep down when welfare ends, that ITS on. I started out as a liberal teenager, but i saw the light. I would rather be alive and my family safe than be one of you spineless white liberal men.(hey spineless white guy/homies rape dudes too, they learned it in prison)We are not talking about normal humans.
June 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
The CPD should watch the movie “ZULU”. Then they would know how to handle this situation
June 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm
The SAME THING happened at Bradford Beach in Milwaukee on Monday. Odd coincidence?!?
June 2, 2011 at 4:06 pm
What happened last weekend might be a blessing. The old Mayor would have cut off all media reports and hope the problem would go away. Hopefully, the new Mayor will take the problem on and eliminate it. Hopefully the new Mayor possesses the backbone the old Mayor did not have. I think he does. Let the police do their job and bring this City back.
June 2, 2011 at 4:08 pm
More reason to support conceal-carry legislation so that Americans can protect themselves when urban animals attack.
June 2, 2011 at 4:09 pm
I totally agree with you Crosscut.
June 2, 2011 at 6:27 pm
my earlier comment was not posted, but there is only one reason why. i made no racist comment. i only reported that charlotte, nc had “youth trouble” this weekend, too. we had a street festival for nascar, but they made a mistake to schedule it over the weekend. the chief of police today said that what happened in uptown charlotte wasn’t anything any different than a usual friday or saturday night. “our security plan worked.” center city planners are doing everything they possible can to spin damage control, since the democratic national convention comes here next summer. chief says that the “footprint” of the youths is only a few blocks around the transit center, which is right next door to time warner arena. so, as long as the 2012 delegates don’t go outside of time warner arena they should be fine. it’s only in the several blocks around the transit center that these age 10-25 (yes, i said age ten) were hangin’, flashing gang signs, yelling “gun” in a crowd to watch people run away out of fear, beating each other, looting a convenience store, and shooting. yes, 1 in the hospital and another dead, in 2 different incidents. just a normal saturday night, according to chief monroe. the dnc should be fine if they schedule the convention sunday-thursday nights.
June 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Nigggers…
…they’re why Africa is Africa, and why America’s inner-cities are cesspools.
June 2, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Check out “The secret history of blacks…” to find out how and why.
June 2, 2011 at 11:29 pm
NOW….HERE IS A CITY WHERE THE NEGROS -OR BLACKS OR AFRO- AMERICANS ( WHO EVER THEY ARE ) OR DARKIES-OR COLORED PEOPLE OR
BOOGIES OR WHATEVER ……………ARE MISANTHROPES AND LOW LIFES,AND MISCREANTS AND MIYSOGNISTS(THE BLACK MEN ARE ) DESERVE TO BE CALLED THE N-WORD LOUD AND CLEAR
TROUBLE OVER AND OVER AGAIN
AND IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE
THEY THINK WHITEY OWES THEM A FREE’KN LIVING …. DAH !!
EXTERMINATION IS GOING TO COME ABOUT AND WILL BE AT HAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE USA IS GETTING FED UP WITH THE WHOLE RACE..AND “DA ATTITUDES DEMS PEOPOES GOTS AND DA WAY DAY DISS UTTERS !! ”
TA TA TA !!!
June 2, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Although you will surely be branded a racist (whatever weight that carries these days), your statement is very accurate.
June 2, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Fence it, control the entry points, charge $20, and see if it still looks like an ashtray when our ‘guests’ go home. I’m sorry if that is racist but we should treat going to the beach the same way we treat going to a national parks: as a privilege, not a right.
June 2, 2011 at 4:27 pm
fuk u, a$$hole. a privilege? to go where i want in my own land? you’re a coward and a sheep.
June 2, 2011 at 8:16 pm
At all costs protect obozo’s people from the suburbanites who come into the city beaches to attack the poor and misunderstood urban youth and their gang leaders.
June 2, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Why in the world does everything have to be some burning story in this city. The beach was way too crowded…too hot….it was a wise step to close the beach. Stop trying to make everything a story. There are too many important issues that you should be dealing with CBS
June 2, 2011 at 4:37 pm
CBS this is not a newworthy story. Good jugment was used in closing the beach. I am starting to hate your news staff for making this a headline. Please stop the nonsense.
June 2, 2011 at 4:40 pm
@ Philip J. Wayne…. I know who you are. You are Mayor Rahm. Come on, you can be honest.
June 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Here in Texas, we have a very effective way of dealing with gangs.
Guess what it is?
Had enough? Come on down.
June 2, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Disappointing they didn’t get into it. Maybe they’re afraid of the knee jerk “racist” label from the left if they had brought the problem to light. There’s a growing problem with the black community, and we all need to address it…. and soon !
June 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Black and Mexican youth gangs are a giant curse on this country. No matter what the arch-leftist PC main stream media says, we all know the truth. We all know who and what cause so much trouble and crime in this country.
June 2, 2011 at 5:01 pm
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I say it was Bush’s fault
June 2, 2011 at 5:53 pm
WHERE IS SHARPTON AND JACKSON ON THIS ISSUE ? 85 % OF BLACK HOMES HAVE no FATHERS IN THEM. SO the love is found in the streets. throwing money at them does what ?
June 2, 2011 at 6:00 pm
By the number of police cars (8) that flew by me headed the direction of the beach, it is hard to beleive the fainting story.
June 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Do Obama machine Democrats count as a gang?
June 2, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Want to hear for yourself what the cops think? Google: 2nd city cop blog
June 2, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Same thing happend in Boston and the mayor tried to cover it up. This summer will make 1968 look like a day at the beach. Urban youth unemployment is sky high, and they do not value life. Stay out of Urban areas at night and on the weekends this summer, it will not be safe and the police will not protect you.
June 2, 2011 at 6:26 pm
The Police closed the Beach for whatever reason. That is their job to serve and protect. If a fight incurred and someone was hurt or shot or killed then what would the criticisms be ? ? ? Close the Beaches until all the garbage (Human) is no longer there and families are safe. Go Rahm ! ! !
June 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Go rahm, go back home.
June 2, 2011 at 11:34 pm
they dont want to deal with all the farking knee grows. thats why the closure
June 2, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Wow… nobody is going to interested to hear that I spent the whole day at the beach, riding my bike the entire 20 mile stretch, stopped at almost every drinking fountain, sunned myself up near Fullerton Ave and just had a great day. I saw nothing but happy people along the way enjoying the sunshine.
But that was all before 6pm. What happened after that, I don’t know, but it is kind of misleading to tourists to give them the impression that the beach is unsafe. I saw lots of police on horses, bikes, on foot, at the entrances. They were everywhere and did a great job.
June 2, 2011 at 6:51 pm
The beaches will be closed all summer since it’s too hot. Rahm will open the beaches again in the winter when it’s cold. He might have to close all the pools and parks too. CPD doesn’t want anyone going outside and passing out in the heat. Have a nice summer.
June 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Here’s a thought, media.
Get the 911 records from that day for the location “Oak Street Beach” – you will see DOZENS UPON DOZENS of calls about “hundreds of gang bangers”, fights, robberies, assaults, people smoking dope by the bike path, on and on and on.
June 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Closing taxpayer’s beaches, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
June 2, 2011 at 7:43 pm
you’re an idiot, nick… you’re stupid, ignorant sheep who can’t see the writing on the wall.
June 2, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Russian gangs? Real Russians would be offended. Not much Russian about them, check out the passports they carry.
About as Russian as levy bronstein (Trotsky) or most of the nkvd thugs, or Ilya.
No, not real Russian. Real Russians are good salt of the earth people who enjoy the simple things in life.
Those chosen gang people you speak of are euro-trash, just not much in the way of euro.
June 2, 2011 at 11:03 pm
This type of thuggery has been going on for a couple of years along the lake. Only now with the inception of flash mobs, it’s easier for gangs to get together fast. We live near the lake, and wouldn’t go near it at night. With the Mayor focusing police around the south and west sides, there’s a lighter force along the lake…..not good for anyone.
June 2, 2011 at 8:22 pm
They can’t say it was because of gangs of illegals. It might hurt their chances of passing the Dream Act to let them become citizens.
June 2, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Who will they get to fight all those wars if they don’t pass the dream act?
The white man is going extinct fighting all these wars for “them.”
Got to get more Christians to fight those moslims to the death.
Beaches were closed for nkvd re-enactment, it’s rahmie’s favorite bedtime story.
June 2, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Clearly with all this gang violence on top of a bankrupt city and state, what Chicago needs is a good community organizer. Preferably one with experience in “social justice” who can “spead the wealth around” and who’s resume includes working closely with ACORN. I don’t know where we’d find such a person, but once he was “present” on the scene, things will get a whole lot better. To get him to stay we could get a felon to give him a sweetheart deal on land next to his house..in return for political favors of course…this being Chicago and all…
June 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
It ain’t heat. It ain’t crowded conditions. It bees Knee Grows. Typically stupid violent Knee Grows.
They cannot build, only destroy. We (magnificent Whites and Asians) need to separate from the Knee Grows or go to WAR.
The average Knee Grow has the mental age of a 13 year old White child. That’s a fact and facts aren’t racisss.
June 2, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Dont you attack your 13 yr old white children and isnt that where all the gayness of you comes from?
June 3, 2011 at 5:34 am
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Closing a beach because it’s 92 degrees? I thought that’s what beaches were for, to cool off on hot days.
Here’s the real reason: “There was a lot of, like, ethnic minorities, like, yelling at each other,” one woman said.
And now we can’t use our beaches. Ain’t diversity grand?
June 2, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Amen Keisha, when ever there are thugs showing their boxers there’s bound to be a shooting. Good call Rahm keeping the future and present felons under control.
June 2, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Beach Closed Due To Badly Behaved Blacks
June 3, 2011 at 12:20 am
Chimpout!
June 3, 2011 at 12:51 am
Mmmmmmhhhhhmmmm ok. dats wut imma talkin bout. Yu unnerstan?
June 3, 2011 at 12:55 am
with a name like Lakeisha you sound like you are a part of the “black homie problem”…not unless you are trying to disguise your identity like those cowards who wear sheets over there faces…
June 3, 2011 at 2:04 am
How quickly yall red-neck crackers forget history…chew on this: 120 million natives killed…80 plus million africans killed (many more millions enslaved)….6 million jews (& others) slaughtered….iraqi women and children are being targeted by our troops (while us at home applaud them)….the violence that yall are condemning is the same violence yall used to conquer this country….and yall pray to Jesus who scripture says had feet like bronze and hair like wool….all this hating on blacks and yet yall pray to a black man…truly n*ggers in every sense of its meaning….
June 3, 2011 at 2:27 am
Thugs at ‘da beach? Whu wooden wanna be part ob dat?
June 3, 2011 at 2:29 am
Funny … you don’t find racial problems in the south these days…they’re all in California, and the Northeast and midwest….
June 3, 2011 at 2:35 am
I’m glad I live in a white neighborhood.
Peace, quiet, no gangs, no violence, people speak English, nobody gets their ass kicked at a fast food place.
June 3, 2011 at 5:59 am
We should sterilize all families (mother, father (if he can be found else cut the benefits in 1/2), children) living off any type welfare (food, housing, homeless, living, …) for over 6 months. This would eventually lead to an end of poverty, crime and make the future better instead of perpetuating the problem as we’ve been doing since the 1960′s
June 3, 2011 at 6:28 am
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Is this why Rahm changed the date of the fireworks display on the 3rd of July?
Any modifications to the day to day happeningsand events of the city and citizens of Chicago because of gang activity and behavior is the same as callingit quits and giving into the thugs.
What else is Rahm willing to give up to the gangs?
June 3, 2011 at 10:58 am
Not arresting any thugs for disorderly conduct, etc. really does empower them.
June 3, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Mayor Rahm will have to outlaw hot and sunny weather. It’s that simple, folks.
June 3, 2011 at 1:16 pm
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Absolutely! I was wondering when and if people were going to sound off on what I noticed as a very horrifying scene. I have never in my 20 plus years in Chicago seen such a complete takeover of the Lakefront shore and bike path. The crowd was 90% African American by 8pm and looked and was acting in a way which suggested some sort of challenge to city hall. What? Isn’t there enough lakefront on the South side? I honestly thought it was either a people of color gang and/or thug “flash mob”. I rode for a few hours at dusk and up until 10 pm, nearest and through downtown to Diversey. I know this city and it’s streets and our lakefront very well. I have never in all my years, seen such an intimidating collection of color broadcasting themselves in a way, which seemed to be some sort of protest against white lakefront living city people. I heard racial language just riding my bike through the ignorant crowd and it was offensive. I was not even able to get through so much of the crowd, without slowing down, almost to a halt and weaving in a way I have NEVER had to do on the lakefront. They were disrespectful and walking without regard to passersby and most of them were walking 10 or more people astride and daring through ignorance, others to pass them by. It was a repulsive atmosphere. The pathway street lights were shut off in much of my ride. It appeared pro-gambling Emmanuel had ordered the lights off, I’m assuming. The most alarming thing about any of this was not just the attitudes of the walking thug hordes of color, or the fact that there were literally no police patroling, but that these people are trying to ruin the best thing Chicago has to offer and it’s not even a place many of these people choose to be. You could see they are trying to intimidate and take over the lakefront from the white majority. We now have a weak liberal mayor, who pulled all the cops off the lakefront on the hottest memorial day of the year. In fact, I am sure that this parade of color and the takeover of Chicago’s downtown lakefront and north side lakefront was orchestrated by a collection of people looking to test the new mayor and stir up trouble with the white caucasian status quo of the Chicago North side lakefront, nearest to downtown. There were practically NO POLICE visible. This mayor better get his liberal act together, or we are going to see a city fall down fast.
June 4, 2011 at 10:30 am
How about this, how about we take back our beaches. Why let these gang banger thugs over run our beaches. Let’s send them home with their tails between their legs. Back to their back alley hang outs, back to their liquor store front perches, back to their front porch barriers. I’d be willing that there are more of us that want to enjoy our lake front than there are of them. Strength in numbers North Siders! I’ll be damned if I’m going to let some thugs ruin my weekend enjoying the sun and the sights.
June 4, 2011 at 11:19 am
Where is batman when you need him. lol
June 4, 2011 at 11:47 am
the point everyone is forgetting is a once beautiful beach is turning into a ghetto, this isnt the cops fault or angry groups of white people. Go back to the south side beaches and destroy your own neighborhood. Leave north ave to tax paying citizens and all those fat assed lincoln park trixies!!
June 5, 2011 at 6:25 am
The racism on this thread is unbelievable. Yes, the offenders in this story are from the lower end of our society, which, in US cities, is typically made up of blacks and Hispanics. But to indict all blacks as useless, horrible people who don’t deserve to live in America…I just don’t understand. Do you people not work alongside black people who were home with their families this weekend? Do you people not have any black friends or neighbors?
As an illustration–I have 178 Facebook friends, 24 of them are black. None of them are on welfare or have ever been in jail. Of these 24 black friends (most in their 20s and 30s), three are legal counsel for corporations, one is a obstetrician, four are corporate attorneys, one is a school principal, one is in nuclear medicine, one is an engineer, one is a physical therapist, one is getting her PhD, one works for the CIA, one is a journalist, and the rest work somewhat less interesting but no less worthwhile office/corporate jobs. Most own their homes; all but two of them with children are married. All of them attended college. And there are even more smart, law-abiding black people than these 24 who have been my co-workers, colleagues, acquaintances, clients, and suppliers over the years. Not in jail. Not on welfare. Not abortion survivors at the beach acting a fool.
WHAT DID THESE GOOD PEOPLE DO TO YOU TO MAKE YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH?
(And don’t say “I wasn’t talking about THOSE black people,” because you were when you said “blacks.”)
June 5, 2011 at 8:39 am
Thank you for your post. I was beginning to think that I should quit my job, apply for food-stamps, tie on a gang related do rag, have a bunch of babies out of wedlock, and otherwise conduct myself like a heathen. Oh, but wait, i wasn’t raised like that. My parents taught me manners, sent my to private school and insisted i do well, and ultimately expected that obtain employment that was sufficient to maintain myself and my family. I am African American and based on many of there comments was starting to conclude that my friends, associates colleges (who are also productive and contributing members of this society) and i did not exist!
June 5, 2011 at 1:08 pm
TYPO: these comments insted of there comments.
June 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm
LOL. another TYPO, INSTEAD. parents didn’t insist i take typing! I still hunt and peck!
June 5, 2011 at 1:13 pm
What all of you fail to wrap your heads around is that there has been no PROOF offered by ANYONE that a group of black youth were hanging out on the lakefront causing trouble. Every report I’ve watched/read is based on 2nd and 3rd hand information! This CBS report did not provide one single eyewitness to the alleged events.
And all you racist Palin groupies really need to learn some manners. You all make me sick.
June 5, 2011 at 9:03 pm
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