Chicago Way w/John Kass: Pastor Brooks worries the city’s downward spiral is getting worse
The Chicago Way
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're a couple, an interracial couple coming out of downtown. You're thinking about getting |
| 0:05.4 | something to eat. There's thousands of kids in the street and they're angry. All of a sudden they |
| 0:12.5 | attack you and they pound you and they beat you and they scream and you hear the girls among them |
| 0:20.9 | screaming for your blood. They're screaming so viciously and loud. You're in Chicago. |
| 0:29.0 | This happened last week and the couple was on the ground being beaten, the white woman, |
| 0:35.6 | the black man from Maywood, the white woman from Carolina and they were overwhelmed. Some good |
| 0:43.6 | people tried to stop the cops and the cops wouldn't stop and you know why they wouldn't stop |
| 0:49.7 | because they knew that if they got out of their car and did something about what was happening, |
| 0:56.0 | the things would escalate. For example, if they got out of their car and pulled their gun, |
| 1:03.2 | their boss would have them fired. If they shot somebody, shot in the air, warning shot to move |
| 1:10.6 | the crowd back, the mayor-elect would be screaming bloody murder and so would the rest of them. |
| 1:19.1 | They had their fingers, the alderman and political leaders wagging their fingers at these cops |
| 1:25.8 | but how can you wag your fingers at cops when they're trying to fire the police officer |
| 1:32.0 | who shot Adam Toledo and didn't have a choice when the 13-year-old wannabe gang banger, |
| 1:40.0 | Latin king gang banger, had been shooting at cars on 26th Street and then when he was chased by |
| 1:50.1 | police officer, he threw the gun away but the world and turned as if he had one, |
| 1:56.8 | but giving the police officer no choice and now Eric Carter, the first deputy demanding to |
| 2:04.1 | fire him. Perfect example of a sleazy political operative. It's my opinion you're sleazy |
| 2:13.6 | because every cop knows what you did at all of French's funeral. Every police officer knows |
| 2:20.2 | what you did. Every paramedic knows what you did. You didn't want the honor guard to honor her |
| 2:29.0 | when she was being brought to the morgue. And we all know it and all these alderman |
| 2:36.7 | shaking their fingers now at these police officers who didn't get, why didn't they get out of their |
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