Ariel Atkins, BLM Chicago organizer, says looting is ‘reparations’: ‘Businesses have insurance’ – Washington Times
A Black Lives Matter Chicago organizer said Monday that the mobs who vandalized and looted downtown businesses the night before did nothing wrong, calling it reparations for Black suffering.
That is reparations, Ariel Atkins, an organizer, told NBC Chicago. Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.
Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the South Loop police station Monday night to show support for the more than 100 individuals who were arrested during the looting Sunday night. Police said 13 officers were injured in the unrest, which was in response to the police-involved shooting of an armed Black man earlier in the day.