Three extra folks seemed in courtroom Tuesday on fees attached to contemporary looting downtown, together with a girl already accused of the similar crime days prior to and a person who allegedly mentioned he was once stressed into it. Gabrielle McGriff — a mom of 4 who serves at a Maywood eating place — organized on-line to promote the $1,400 boots for $1,100, however was once unknowingly talking with undercover officials who arrested her and her boyfriend Monday at a Far South Side McDonalds, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy mentioned. Boutique Brunello Cucinelli, the Rush Street retailer the lady stole from, sustained $1 million in damages from ultimate week’s looting, prosecutors mentioned. McGriff was once ordered her hung on $5,000
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Mag Mile looting, belongings injury reported
Two other folks had been shot, greater than 100 other folks had been arrested and 13 law enforcement officials had been injured as crowds broke home windows and looted retail outlets alongside Michigan Avenue and at the Near North Side in a single day and into Monday morning. Supt. David Brown referred to as the looting “pure criminality” in a information convention Monday morning, no longer attached to any protest. “Criminals took to the streets with the confidence that there would be no consequences for their actions,” Brown stated, including that police would aggressively pursue circumstances in opposition to other folks in contact within the looting. “You have no right, no right to take and destroy the property of
Rapper Vic Mensa joins Toni Preckwinkle to deal with looting,
Rapper Vic Mensa joined Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle at a Thursday information convention concerned with encouraging other folks to lend a hand restore small companies that have been looted or vandalized, however the singer and activist stated that if other folks truly need to blank up the group, “don’t wait until it burns down.” The Chicago rapper stated the “real looting” is the universities closed at the South and West Sides, whilst a brand new police academy is being deliberate and the black our bodies “stolen by police officers in our city and across our nation.” Mensa and Preckwinkle spoke on the East 47th Street headquarters of Mensa’s SaveMoneySaveLife Foundation, which guarantees to make use of artwork