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  • 2020-08-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a BLM Organizer Say, 'I Don’t Care If Someone Decides to Loot'? (en)
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  • After the police shooting of 20-year-old Latrell Allen in Chicago's Englewood community on the afternoon of Aug. 9, 2020, unrest in that city extended through that night and into the early morning hours of the following day, with looters hitting some stores in Chicago’s wealthiest shopping district on North Michigan Avenue. The following evening, members of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement held a solidarity rally in that city with some of the people who had been arrested for looting the night before. Shortly after those events, social media users began circulating a meme stemming from that event, quoting a BLM leader & organizer named Ariel Atkins as saying, I don't care if someone decides to loot, because that makes sure that person eats or has clothes. Anything they want to take, they can, because these businesses have insurance: That was an accurate quote, according to Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV, who reported on the Aug. 10 event: Atkins said essentially the same thing a few days later, when she was interviewed by Chicago NPR station WBEZ on the subject of why she supports looting: (en)
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