‘Get the f**k out!’: WATCH Chicago residents confront BLM protesters in tense standoff
RT-USA News
A BLM protest march from Englewood to Chicago’s 7th District police station on Tuesday ended in a showdown with community members, at times devolving into shouting matches as locals insisted the demonstrators were giving their neighborhood a bad name.
“If you ain’t from Englewood, get the f**k out of here!” longtime south side resident Darryl Smith (see video at bottom of story) was heard shouting at the protesters, who he said were not from the community.
“They were… gonna come to Englewood, antagonizing our police, and then when they go back home to the north side in Indiana, our police are bitter and they’re beating up our little black boys,” Smith told reporters on the scene, adding that “we don’t need any outsiders coming and antagonizing.”
One of the community members, Daryl Smith, who’s a Englewood resident of 51 years, tells reporters why he doesn’t want Black Lives Matter protesters in his neighborhood. He states that they’re infiltrating their neighborhood & antagonizing their officers. #ChicagoProtests pic.twitter.com/W5r6mU1MmL
— Frito-Khalid (@WulfMunkey) August 12, 2020
A photojournalist with the Chicago Sun-Times documented some of the march’s more tense moments, including when a heated argument nearly escalated into a physical confrontation.
A good chunk of protesters have left. But others are coming in. Community members are continuing to ask folks to leave. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests pic.twitter.com/8nA45EDPE6
— Tyler LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) August 11, 2020
Some community members and protesters are getting into arguments here at the 7th district police station, many community members are demanding that these protesters leave their community and protest somewhere else. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests pic.twitter.com/Ej1dUwGRgc
— Tyler LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) August 11, 2020
An organizer of the protest, which was put together by members of Black Lives Matter and advocacy group Good Kids Mad City, told a local news outlet that some demonstrators decided to leave following conflict with residents, saying they felt “unsafe.” Other organizers maintained they were from the local area, but said they said they decided not to participate in the rally due to “agitators.”
The protest came days after the police shooting of a 20-year-old suspect who reportedly opened fire on officers, which kicked off a spree of looting in downtown Chicago over the weekend. Smith said the unrest had been unfairly blamed on Englewood, and that the protesters were only feeding that perception.
“A lot of people are saying the looting downtown sparked from Englewood. We’re not having that. It didn’t spark from Englewood,” he said. “Those [looters] were opportunists, and we’re tired of Englewood getting a black eye for any and everything that happens.”
Some 400 officers were deployed to the downtown shopping district to quell the looting on Sunday, making over 100 arrests amid what Mayor Lori Lightfoot dubbed “an assault on our city.”
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Who is Darryl Smith? This video will give you an idea. It was made when Smith was a candidate for the Cook County board of his district.
Video added by (TLB) editors
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